There must be something special in the way the stars are arranged lately. Something strange is going on around here.
Remember I told you, in May that my next door neighbour brought me her glass pot and one of her blooming tea balls? I invited an old friend over to enjoy the experience and quickly ordered my own blooming
teas from China. They have now arrived safely, and I also now have my own glass teapot and am ready to start sharing this experience with 16 more
people.
Anyway, that was just the first incident of a sudden pleasant surprise. There have been many more since then.
Friday one of my neighbours called to say she was going to Kemptville to pick up this weeks specials. While in the grocery store, she found this display of miniature roses that
were just being marked down. She started loading her cart with them. There
were a couple of larger pots that were not being marked down, but she liked
the colour of one of them too, as it was an unusual shade of purple she had
never seen before, and there was just one so she grabbed it too. Then she
picked up a pretty pink one and said that one was for me and she was buying it because I'm a good friend.
Then we were in the meat department as she wanted some kabobs that were on sale. They weren't on the shelf, so she asked about them. The clerk went and fetched a box, but they were souvlaki as opposed to kabobs. She wasn't interested in them but I sure was. There were four in a package for just $2.79. The clerk went back and got what she wanted, and I grabbed the 2 package per customer limit on the ones that were originally brought out. My friend bought six packages of the ones she wanted, and then decided to get two of the other ones as well. When we got home she took them out of her bag and plopped them into mine. She said she bought them for me since there was that 2 per person limit. We put our groceries away and I invited her for lunch. I paid her for the meat, which she wasn't expecting, but I did accept the gift of the rose. It's now planted out under my kitchen window and I sure hope it lives through the current heat spell.
Recently a local church held a Fashion Show and Tea, and I was one of the models. Yesterday I went to Doree's Habit, with plans to spend the $20 gift certificate I was given for having done the job. That was totally unexpected too, since I was already able to enjoy the tea party without
paying the $10 admittance just for having taken part in the show. I looked around the shop and found this cute little black hat that turned out to be the an even swap for the gift certificate.
Last month a cyber buddy of mine finally took up geocaching after listening to my stories for the past several years. He wrote about his first geocaching experience, and blamed me for the whole thing. Since then he seems to have become hooked on these little adventures, and this morning I discovered he had gifted me a full year's Premium Membership at geocaching.com . This was totally out of the blue, and a great surprise, since I think about upgrading my membership every year, but have never done it.
All this got me thinking and I realized that within the past week I have also received fresh lettuce when I walked by the home of friend who had just picked some from her garden. Another friend had been cleaning out her closet and was taking some things to the Salvation Army, but she saved a couple of red and purple garments for me to use in my Red Hatter outings. And yesterday my daughter-in-law brought me some rhubarb from the cottage. I had not managed to get any rhubarb this year, until now, so that was greatly appreciated.
I don't know what's going on, but I'm starting to really enjoy all these pleasant surprises.
Wow! Lucky, lucky you!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, due to the full moon, I had to deal with the city's "crazies" (I'm a bit of a magnet). Sigh.