Weekend and Sugar Plums with a touch of Verticals

First weekend home was great! I arrived home shortly before the school bus. It was some nice to be home for my boy like old times. I got to hear stories about his day and his new school first hand instead of through Skype. That's huge.

I got on the road shortly after a quick lunch. Fridays are only a half day so it should be easy to get home for weekends as long as mother nature co-operates. I know there will be times when the impending weather report makes driving prohibitive but I don't want to think about that right now.

This is the time of year when I start to clean the cobwebs off my houseplants and bring them inside for the winter; put pool floaties away in preparation for the pool to be drained; and the most joyful task of all, picking all the plums off the plum tree and even ones off the ground that were too ripe to stay on the branch. They may only be coin-size but they are juicy and sweet. I brought a bunch back with me.

Hubby was in a baking mood so both of us now have freezers full of oat cakes and whoopie pies. This is not usually on my menu but they make great snacks at break time. The oat cakes are my favorite. Our recipe is exactly like the oat cakes you can buy in any coffee shop.

Got back to the apartment at around 8pm Sunday evening to find my vertical blinds finally installed. They are the ugliest sons-o-guns I've ever seen. They absolutely ruin the look of my beautiful bay window. I'll never use them but I have to keep them up because they belong to the property. Boy are they ugly.

The 70's called... they want their verticals back!!!