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Chef Paul at work!
I was up at o’dark thirty and decided to work on the HeShed even before m’lady rose to greet the day! I have made great progress since we decided to give Vicky 150 feet of unopened outdoor LED string lights that had been stored in the shed for years! I also decided to remove all the pots that we have been saving, as our yard is already full enough. We plan to transport them to Miss Vicky so she can add them to her collection! The HeShed is starting to look pretty good now.
Almost clean… Another hour is needed to sort through the small cans/liquids!
Today is that day when tequila and beer reign supreme! It’s Cinco De Mayo, this is the most celebrated non-holiday ever! American beer companies did help popularize the “holiday” in the United States, especially in the late 20th century. In the 1980s and 1990s, American beer, tequila, and restaurant companies heavily marketed Cinco de Mayo as a festive “Mexican” celebration, which made it much bigger commercially in the U.S.
So the short version is: Started by history, amplified by marketing.
Mary decided we should celebrate Sinko-Da-Mayo!
This year, we did NOT revert to our holiday garb; we stayed in our work clothes until it was time to go to Mary’s art class!
Our “normal” Cinco de Mayo outfits!
All was going according to plan until the phone rang, and it was the doctor’s office! They scheduled the angiogram/angioplasty for Thursday at noon (no Elks this week), but also wanted a pre-operation EKG, blood test, and chest x-ray today.
SO, at noon, we went our separate ways. Mary went to class, and I went to St. Joseph’s Medical Center to get poked and prodded by OC’s finest!
I passed the test with flying colors and got home about 20 minutes after Mary had arrived. We had planned to see Vicky today, so we called and suggested we have dinner together. All we had to say was “Fish Company,” and we could hear Vicky’s car start up!
Before we started over, Mary showed me her pictures, mounted on the wall, for the art contest coming up later this week.
Mary presented me with her rendition of “Picasso Dines On Donuts” or “Picasso Joins The Police Force”:
Don’t ask, don’t tell (p.s. Mary added the coffee cup)
Here are some funny/witty quotes commonly attributed to Pablo Picasso:
• “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
• “Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
• “Everything you can imagine is real.”
• “The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”
• “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
• “Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.”
• “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
• “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
• “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”
• “Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.”
Mary is the Captain of Our Ship, so on the way to Vicky’s, she decided we would stay home this weekend and skip Phoenix because of the operation scheduled for Thursday. We were looking forward to visiting Becky and Dan, as well as the Thedens, over Mother’s Day Weekend.
I was, along with Mary, very disappointed, but during the phone call with Becky, she invited us again to see her after the medical condition calms down.
Aye-Aye, My Captain!!
We bid for a game called Route66Opoly and could NOT wait to have it for Vicky. When we got to Rossmooor, she had already procured a booth and was waiting for us. We gave her the game (she and her family love board games), and she went berserk, opening the box and looking at the board and all the pieces. We are happy to see her so happy!
Someone is a happy girl!
We left the Fish Company, went to see the finished patio at Vicky’s, and unloaded all the lights and other goodies we had brought for her. We visited for a while, and I got a chance to rest up after four margaritas (hey, it is Cinco de Mayo after all).
We departed Vicky’s at dusk and arrived home 20 miles later. Into our jammies and then to the TV room, we watched Lost In Space until 11:00 am (some of us did!) before going to bed.
