Friday's Fave Five, 6/3/22

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1. FIRST WEEK of retirement!!  Now, I've been busy all week, but the difference is that I'm slowly realizing that my time is no longer limited.  It's not "I've got to get all this done on Saturday," or even "I've got to get all this done during my 10 weeks off this summer."  Which is the way it's been for the past 42 years!!  I may write an entire blog post at some point about what that feels like.  It is liberating.

2. I've been enjoying these all week.  The flowers at left are from my daughter; the 31 roses and the plaque in the front were given to me at graduation (representing 31 years at the school).  

3. I am slowly getting 42 years of education accumulation cleaned out of our dining room/"big room."  It will take awhile, but I'm getting it done slowly.

4. Spent one morning with Mike at the farm.  He was spreading gravel, and I practiced piano on the Kurzweil we have down there, as I'm playing piano for church Sunday morning.  The blueberries are coming in!!  We won't get the 40 gallons of two years ago, but we should get more than the two that we got last year.  I won't soon forget that night back in March when the temps got down to 23 degrees - we tried so hard to cover the bushes but the winds kept whipping everything off.  We were resigned to getting very few blueberries again, but it looks like the middle bushes are pretty full.

5. My dad is better.  He was pretty sick last weekend with 101+ fever for several days, but a trip to the urgent care, with a doctor we know and appreciate, and a good antibiotic prescription have gotten him fixed up again.  

And now I can take a nap.  Because I am retired.  :-)