The day was lovely and the daffodils have started to open.   I love their sunny color.

I started my day by dropping my cell phone in water.   We dried it as much as we could and it still doesn’t want to work.  However, there were appointments so we spent a lot of the day going from place to place.  First DH had a Dr. appointment, then we went to get some sunchokes to plant (also called Jerusalem artichokes)

They are in the sunflower family and have a smaller flower.  “They look like small, knobbly  potatoes  but crunchier, sweeter and do have a slight taste of artichoke. They practically contain no starch, but plenty of inulin (not insulin), which becomes fructose when spuds are stored in the ground or refrigerated.  The humble sunchoke  is considered gourmet fare by many.  Raw, it’s an excellent substitute for water chestnuts in hot and spicy stir fries, or cooked in cream soups, broiled with sweet potatoes, or simply scrubbed and baked..” from  http://www.localharvest.org/sunchokes.jsp   I want to plant some because I have read they are great winter animal feed as well as being nutritious for humans.   And it is the end of planting season for them.   (I shall try to remember to get a photo tomorrow for you).

We stopped and picked up the animal clippers so bunnies can be clipped again, and made a visit to Panera Bread.   Then off to the phone company to get help with the phone. which ended up with me having a new phone.

While the car was running, the knitting needles were also busy.    I have turned the heel and am now working on the foot of the sock.

No, I didn’t retire.   A wife and mother doesn’t  retire.   We love our work too much.

However DH(on the right in the first photo)  is retiring the day after tomorrow.   I was invited to the luncheon.  The man they  talked about and the innovative things he did for the aerospace industry and especially to help the engineers were all new to me.    According to the gentleman giving the talk, he has designed programs  that have helped the company be 5-10 years ahead of other aerospace companies.   Who knew?   He never talked about his work and I  am not  technically inclined so didn’t ask him about what he did.  Perhaps we both thought I wouldn’t understand all the technical stuff and that would be true – I just knew he worked as a programmer who worked with engineers and yes, I did know he had a nice title.

But the side I know is the husband and father, the provider and protector – the man who bristles when I call him a genius.   He considers himself just an ordinary man.    To me, it is very interesting how a person can live two such varied lives.   But that could also be because the issues are home are so very different from the issues at work.  And he handles the issues where he is while he is there.

And though I learned things about him that 51 years of marriage didn’t tell me,  it really wouldn’t have mattered if he hadn’t done all that, he is still the man I fell in love with all those years ago.

The house was nearly ready for company tomorrow and the meal was ready to be heated etc. so I had about half an hour to  work on an embroidery project.

OOPS!   One careless moment later cost me 5 hours of time as the machine needle broke trying to go through my finger, leaving a threaded eye in my finger.  It took the orthopedic hand specialist over 2 hours to get it out.

Therefore, I don’t have a new project to show you.    But I’ll find ways to work around it!  There will be new projects this coming week.   And I’m happy to report that so far this month, I’ve kept up with my walking goals.