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I had a nice Mother's Day weekend, although seems like much of it was spent catching up on laundry.

Oh yes, we also had the "High Tea Treats" baking class Saturday afternoon at the community college. (I took pictures, more on that later.)

It was so warm in Seattle last week, the garden just exploded. I'm sure the compost has something to do with it. Fortunately my neighbor watered generously.  We supposed to get some rain this week which we really need.  I'm getting all the dead spring foliage slowly cut back-- the changing of the guard.

It was nice coming home on a Friday instead of a rushed Sunday afternoon.  Air travel might be fast and convenient, but it sure takes the starch out of a person.

I loved my Mother's Day presents from John. Nothing like the sight of new, sharp, clean pruners. They won't look that way for long.  All that deadheading this summer, and everything that comes up gets cut back again and hauled out in the fall. Ugh.  But who wants to think about that now?

We had steak, baked potatoes and lemon cake from Metropolitan Market Mother's Day dinner.  After all that restaurant food and take-out, it feels good eating plain old home-cooked food at our regular weird times: breakfast 6 am, lunch 11, dinner 5.

Seeing Amanda and the girls is the only thing that would have made the weekend perfect. They were on a multi-family camp-out at Banks Lake in central Washington.  This is an Mother's Day tradition for the group of close friends, and Amanda and Tom have been gong since Nova was a tiny baby. So many big kids now!  Looks like fun.
 

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