Prom photos

Mary shows off her hair-do.

The complete ensemble.

It's taken a while, as I have been working furiously putting out a few papers and some special sections the past two weeks, but here are Mary's prom photos! She had a lot of fun and she looked fabulous. I helped her get ready, sat for many long hours in the beauty salon and went to the wrong florist looking for the corsage I had ordered. They told me they had no order under my name, so in a panic (this was Saturday morning) I stopped in at the first florist I could find and begged them to throw together a corsage for me, which they very kindly did. Then the actual florist I had preordered from called me later that afternoon and confirmed their address, very similar name but not the same florist I had been to in the morning. So I picked that one up too and one of Mary's friends ended up wearing it.

We took the photos with her early graduation present--an olympus digital camera. It's about half the size of my tiny coolpix and takes great photos. We also got her an HD card(?) that they recommended so she has a gigantic capacity for photos (about 1600).

She's excited about graduation. I'm trying to find a few minutes to finish painting her room and cleaning the carpets. Plus somewhere in the next few weeks I have to find a dress for graduation. I think I'd rather paint the whole house than shop, but I have little choice in the matter. :-)

Richard is doing great. He likes his new job a lot and they seem to really value his opinions and experience. He could do without the commute, or the fact that there are no available places for lunch (although that's actually saving us a fortune).

In my next blog, I will get some photos of the yard. The peonies are gigantic, the hellebores are 3 foot tall. The bishops grass is huge. The catnip is threatening to take over the galaxy. I seriously think it has mutated. I also have a nice crop of broccoli and cabbage, plus some romaine lettuce that is growing really well. This is my first time for growing any of that stuff, so I have no idea why it's doing well. I'm also trying to grow rhubarb with mixed results. I'm pretty sure Richard mowed it down last week, but we'll see.