Two weeks worth

I missed posting my Friday Fave Fives last week. 

1.  We were here. Sort of.

San Diego Bay.  The fleeting view from Coronado Bridge.

Downtown San Diego and San Diego Bay

2.  Taking an adventure trip to Coronado Island with Mama Mia and two little ones was an added enjoyment to a long weekend.  The main purpose of our visit was to attend the adoption party(ies) for a very special little girl who was officially adopted by our family friends.  We are so very thankful and excited that EHL has found her forever parents and her forever home. 

3.  I was visiting with a friend a couple of weeks ago, and she completely amazed me with her generosity by offering to give me one of her looms.  I am so excited to own a working weaving loom!  I will be even more excited when I buy a shuttle and actually begin weaving on it.

4.  Not being much of a morning person, I seldom never wake up early enough to watch the sunrise.  I'm more of a sunset person.  Sunsets like this one.  Do you see the contrail shooting from the upper right corner of the cloud?

Photo taken from my front porch.

5.  Because my birthday is St. Patrick's Day, I obviously have an affinity for all things Irish.  I'm also a little bit Irish, probably having enough Irish blood flowing in my veins to fill my big toe.  That still makes me Irish, right?  There's a new Irish pub in town, and last year on my birthday we endeavored to celebrate there only to be turned away because the waiting line was hours long to get in to drink green beer.  Even for an Irish lass whose birthday is March 17th.  So when the university faculty held a faculty union happy hour at Brendan's, we decided it would be a fine time to visit.  It was particularly fun for The Professor to socialize with other faculty, and I enjoyed it too, chatting with faculty and spouses.

6.  Since I missed last week, I can't stop with five.  The Professor and I enjoy reading mystery stories.  We have embarked on a mission to read all the Dick Francis novels in chronological order of publication.  Yeah, we're weird like that.  Borrowing the books from the library, we are now reading #17 and #18.  For those who don't know, here is a little background information on Dick Francis:  he was a British jockey, at one time the Queen Mother's official jockey.  After his retirement, he began writing a racing column for newspapers and eventually became a famous murder mystery novelist.  Almost all his books' plot somehow involve British horse racing.  Reading his books, we are learning a fair amount about steeple chasing and flat racing as well as English geography, besides guessing 'who done it' before the last page.

7.  One more, OK?  This is truly the best and most important.  My beloved daughter-in-law was not well last week and ended up in the hospital.  To add insult to injury, it was her birthday.  That's the not-fave part.  The fave part is that she is home and is going to be fine.  We are thankful!

I appreciated the emails I received checking in with me to make sure eveything was OK here at Willow's Cottage since I didn't post anything last week on FFF.  It's comforting to me to know that people noticed.  Thanks!  The weekend was just so very busy and filled with family time.  However, it is good to 'be back' and in a routine which means I can link up to Friday Fave Five at Susanne's blog.