Peeled, Patched, Primed and Prepared

The kitchen is ready to have the wallpaper put up. Melissa changed her plans so that she can come back in the morning and finish the job! I'm excited to have it completed. She patched everything so it looks really ready. Hooray for Melissa.

I'm still having fun cleaning out drawers, throwing things away, and rearranging the stuff in the kitchen cupboards. After we get the new countertops and sink we're going to feel liked we've moved! I hope I don't regret any of my throw-aways - but it has to be done sooner or later.

The perennial garden is very lush this year. The plants loved our cool, cool spring, and all the rain and the sprinklers. It seems to be growing so much faster. The rue anemone is blooming, and the field daisies. Yesterday I noticed one spiderwort (tradescantia) blossom. The spiderwort is really beautiful when it's all in bloom. We have big buds on our peonies and globeflowers, and everything looks great. On the driveway side, the rhododendron is looking good too.

Today is 6/6/06, or 666. Some people actually think that this will be the start of the apocalypse. Other people think that November 2000 was the start of the apocalypse! In Hell, Michigan today you can get an ice cream cone for 66 cents, and a steak dinner for $6.66. They've created a wedding chapel where people can get married in Hell at 6 p.m. Sounds like it might be a fun day in Hell.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY...THE MURDER OF RFK

A Brief but Influential Life...What Could Have Been?

Robert F. Kennedy

born Nov. 20, 1925
died June 6, 1968

Murdered at age 43, leaving a pregnant wife and 10 other young children

THIS DAY IN HISTORY...D DAY, JUNE 6, 1944

The Normandy invasion began with overnight parachute and glider landings, massive air attacks and naval bombardments, and an early morning amphibious assault on June 6, "D-Day". The battle for Normandy continued for more than two months, with campaigns to establish, expand, and eventually break out of the Allied beachheads. It concluded with the liberation of Paris and the fall of the Falaise Pocket.