Happy Mother's Day

For Mother's Day, I was going to look for a pair of salad tongs or the giant fork and spoon that hook together to allow you to serve up salad. It appears we don't have such a machine. And we still don't


Carolyn suggested going to the Friends of the Library warehouse book sale which will be held on consecutive Saturdays this month rather than our usual single weekend. We managed to buy $36 worth of books, primarily children's chapter books and music collections.

By this time we were both hungry enough for a Jasper's Giant Hamburger and the one in Rancho Cordova that I like so well was just a straight shot from where the Book Sale. Carolyn agrees they sell excellent hamburgers.



Refreshed now and ready for our afternoon activities, Carolyn suggests that we check out the furniture places along Folsom Blvd for dining room chairs. She wants to replace our kitchen table chairs with the chairs in our dining room because the current ones are uncomfortable.



But as fate would have it, the first place we go to has not only the seats we like but the whole dining room table, hutch, china closet, all for under $3,000. The salesman didn't have to twist our arm.


She paid for it herself but we're still considering it part of her Mother's Day present.