Lunch With Melba, Puzzle, Reading as it Rains, Denim Quilting and a Glass of Wine! My Monday....

My long time friend, Melba, came for lunch and a visit today.

She and I have been friends for over 25 years. She home schooled her granddaughter when I was teaching Amber and Benjamin. Melba is an amazingly strong woman. She has been through so much in her life not the least of which was breast cancer. Melba is a survivor and a dear friend.

She lives as a widow now in Oklahoma City but was in town for some graduations and we were able to spend the afternoon together.

Ladies love salads! And I love this salad bowl!

I put everything I could find in this and topped it off with a hand full of fresh herbs from my garden.

Louis Dean joined us in the dining room and there we sat long after we had finished our food.....

sipping glass after glass of tea and telling our stories!

Our dessert was extra special!

Lemon cupcakes with raspberry frosting made by me sweet neighbor. Olga, who has a cottage kitchen bakery business in addition to her other career. 

We retired to the den to work on a huge sunflower puzzle.....

I love having a puzzle out where we can sit together and work a few pieces as we talk.

I am totally overwhelmed by this one and truly appreciated Melba getting me back to it.

Rolling thunder and dark clouds moved in just as she was leaving......

so I took my book and tea out to the porch and enjoyed a brief rain and some reading.

I'm cutting it close on getting some denim quilts made in time to give as gifts.

This one is a late wedding gift and next up will be one for the bride's soon to be born baby.

That's running late, don't you think?

I'm making this one a full size and that's a lot of heavy denim to work through the machine!

I'm not a seamstress but a crafter and a whacker!

I am about to have a glass of wine with Louis Dean and call this day done.

The glass is a gift from my gardening neighbor, Tamara.

This makes the wine even more special.

Day is over, night has come.

Today is gone, what's done is done.

Embrace your dream, through the night.

Tomorrow comes with a whole new light.

                                     ~Unknown~