Hubby's On His Way Home!!!

Woo Hoo!! I just talked to Mike, he's in a cab at the
moment going from the St. Louis airport to his job's
main office to pick up our car! The car has been parked
on their fenced in yard since he's been gone. Sooo...
not only do I get to see Hubby, I get to visit with my
car also! lol

After he gets the car, he still has about 3 hours to
drive to reach home. Plus, he promised Jaylan
he'd stop somewhere along the way and buy her
some fireworks, so it's still going to be a while until
he actually arrives in the driveway.

I just finished up two chocolate pies for Mike. He
adores chocolate pies! He should be set for a day or
two on dessert. The house is sparkling clean and I'm
just killing time at the computer until he gets here.

I've decided Mother Nature is bi-polar! lol She will
be in a wonderful mood and allow the sun to shine,
then someone gives her a wedgie and she gets angry
and sends in the rain! This morning the sun was
shining, but now the thunder is rumbling in the
distance and it's raining again. It sure doesn't
seem like July with all the rain we've been having.

Although, the rain has been good on the blackberry
crops. The vines along my driveway are absolutely
loaded with berries. And to my delight, a few are
starting to ripen. I LOVE blackberries, I LOVE
picking blackberries, and I LOVE eating blackberries!!
As a child I never wanted a birthday cake, I always
requested that Momma make me a blackberry
cobbler and homemade ice cream. I'd go out the
day before or the day of my birthday and pick
lots of berries and sure enough, Momma would make
me a delicious cobbler topped with ice cream. I
haven't had cobbler like that since Momma
passed away.

Oooohhh... if the berries are getting ripe, that must
mean that I have a birthday looming in the near
future! Yeup, a week from tomorrow and I'll be
forty-seven years old. I truly can't believe that
I'm that old, it seems only a week or two ago and
I was graduating from high school. Maybe a few
days ago that Cassie was born. Time has just
flown by for me. Funny how some of the
memories from our past stand out in our minds
and are so vivid, yet others are fuzzy and hard
to remember. There are parts of my life that
I don't remember too much about, I think
maybe those are selective memories. I'd rather
not remember those times so I've just kinda
blocked them out.

And the people... I wonder about people I've
known in the past. I've stayed in touch with
many, but there are a few that were very
precious to me at one time and I've now lost
track of them. I often wonder where they're
at and how they are.

Have a Happy Independence Day!