An Ordinary Glorious Day!

It was a busy day!  We got up early to go to the Farmers Market and picked up some vegetables and fruits.  While there we stopped to chat with some of our favorite vendors and met smiling neighbors.  We bought some gobo-burdock root to share with Auntie Grace and daikon for Auntie Dorothy.

We were excited because we had finally finished our National Parks Trip Photo Album for mom.  Art really feels it's important for us to print it because mom enjoys seeing all the photos and remembering so many of the details of the trip that she usually forgets until she looks back at the photos.  Her job will now be to add her memories and write them in Japanese.  We then write the albums on DVDs and send them to her siblings in Japan as well Sam (Art's Tokyo college buddy).

It's been a long slog to work as quickly as we can to select photos, research and write important things about each park, find names of wildflowers and format them on pages.  Our album ended up being 103 pages!  But it was worth it and we were DONE and ready to have it printed.

Since we were going off to town, we planned to also pick up my medication at Tripler Hospital.  Everybody seemed to be smiling.  We could find parking!  The sun was shining brightly.

At Office Max, we saw our young cousin.  He is in charge of their printing.  He took our flash drive and said we could do our errands while he loaded and printed it.  We had a wonderful chat before leaving.

Next we went to see Auntie Grace.  She gave us Swiss Chard and lettuce from her garden.  Cousin Arnold was there so we talked about possible trips we might some day take together.

We went back to Office Max and collected what our cousin had printed for us.  The 103 copies were absolutely fabulous!  Crisp, perfect colors.  It's the best we've seen yet from any printer.

Then we went to see Auntie Dorothy and dropped off lettuce from Auntie Grace and the daikon we'd bought her and Uncle.  There was a large Hayden mango that had fallen from her tree.  I gave it to her and she laughingly said I should just take it home.   We passed a parking lot and waved to a friend I hadn't seen in a while.

Art and I decided to stop at Burger King and use a coupon we had for a chicken sandwich.  Everybody there was full of smiles.  Our meal was great!  I'd noticed a 50% off sale on their soft serve.  It was only 79 cents!  Art couldn't believe the HUGE cone she created and handed me with a laughing smile.

In the parking lot, we bumped into my friend Joanne from Zumba. 

"Isn't it an amazing day?  Everybody is so friendly and happy,"  said Art.

It really was.  I wish I could bottle days like this for when the clouds roll in.  Life is yin and yang.  For all these wonderful days, I know life is a balance.

We brought the pages home and I put them in an album for mom.  She was thrilled and ecstatic about the gorgeous photos and the memories that came flooding back.

She called me downstairs a moment ago.   "OH NO!" she said.  "You wrote June 1, 2013 instead of June 12, 2013 on the first page."

Mom used to work for a newspaper.  She may not be able to read English well, but she can catch errors.   Sigh...

Yin Yang.  Oh well.  It's been a glorious day!  And you know what?  I think she's getting a lot of secret pleasure out of being able to find our errors.

She's happy.  That's the main thing... and so are we.