THE FUNERAL FLOWERS

Sunny with temperatures rising towards the low 80s. Winds light and variable.

After work today I went to a little shop I like to look for a couple of nice cool tops to wear with black pants for after the wake and funeral on Monday and Tuesday. A few of use will be going to my cousin's house before everyone arrives after the wake on Monday and the funeral on Tuesday. We will be setting up the food and beverages for the guests. It is going to be warm here each day and I wanted to be able to change into something cool.

I love the little shops I can find once in a while that are not in malls. The kind you can just drive up to, park your car and go right in the front door of the store.
I didn't find any tops but I did get a black cotton skirt with white embroidery along the bottom, but I could not find a top to go with it.

After that I went to order flowers for the funeral home. I didn't want the typical basket of flowers and I wanted something that could be brought home and placed perhaps on their dinning room table. When my father died a good friend of my brother's sent to my house a beautiful vase with cream colored roses. The vase was really not a vase but a cross between a bowl and a vase, short and wide. It was stuffed with short stemmed off white roses and short stemmed off white hydrangeas. It was so elegant. So I went to the same florist and she actually remembered the piece when I told her who received it and who sent it. So I ordered the same thing.

Then I went to my cousins house to see if they needed anything. My cousins and her son and one daughter were out getting hanging baskets to hang in their gazebo and the other daughter was just puttering around the house. She said they were all set put make sure I could come back later and have sandwiches with them. Someone had sent a large platter of cold cuts and a large platter of Italian pastry.

Then I went home caught up with the husband sat home for a while and then went to my cousin's again and believe me there was a lot more food there than the cold cuts and pastry. the people and the food just keeps coming. this is going to be a long weekend of much food.

My daughter had her interview for the job she has been doing in CT for the last three weeks. She said it went well and she will know next Friday the results.