Rachel's Birthday And A Stubborn Man

I spent most of the day working on Levon's quilt and I'm getting there. I'm now working on the last panel where I've sewn his name and am in the process of embroidering around the edges of the letters I cut out. 

I definitely did not think through things when I started the whole project, having the fabric run sideways instead of up and down because the letters of Levon's name go up and down. 
Oh well. 
I used to sew the last panel on before I embroidered the letters but at some point I thought, "Wait. Why am I doing this?" It is so much easier to do needlework on a small piece of material than a whole dang blanket. It only took me about thirty years or so to figure this out. I am not the fastest car on the road, am I? 

Before I got to the blanket project though, I did a few other things. Mr. Moon and I went out to the garden to decide where he should plant those tomatoes I got the other day. I pulled up one whole row of lettuce to make room because it's baby bonsai lettuce, I guess, and never got bigger than a small saucer per head. So I washed all the plants I pulled and I think they will make a shrimp salad for us tomorrow. 
My heartier greens are still looking excellent, sturdy and large and colorful. I suspect that here in North Florida our collard greens are just more likely to be happy than things like Bibb lettuce. So is kale and arugula and mustard greens and these purple cabbages. I've never had cabbages grow this beautifully. I hope they head up before the damn worms get to them. 

Another thing I did before I started sewing was to try and figure out how to get my Hulu back and y'all- there is nothing in this world that makes me feel older than attempting to do things like that on the TeeVee with the clicker. (That was old-people talk for TV and remote.) I went through the whole process of changing the account to my name and my card thinking maybe that would help (and frankly, I thought it already was), filled out all the boxes with email and form of payment and zip code and all that shit, clicked "Done", and got this. 

FUCK THAT! 

And now Hulu is associated with Disney and so am I supposed to use that password and oh god, I just cannot do this. 

So I gave up on it all and will get one of my kids to come and help me. 

Today is Rachel's birthday and we have all texted her and wished her the happiest of days. Hank was able to take the rest of the week off and this morning they drove up to Thomasville to get some bagels at Rachel's favorite bagel place. 

It's a little hard to tell but I think she's happy. 
Tomorrow those of us who can are going to meet up at Kool Beanz, possibly the best restaurant in the south Georgia, north Florida area, and then go to a thrift store. I am looking forward to that. It is a joy to celebrate Rachel who has brought so much love and goodness to our family. It makes my heart happy, knowing that she and Hank have each other to love and go through life with, sustaining each other and making each other laugh because I know they do. 
Rachel is a beautiful person, inside and out and the day Hank met her, was a day that changed all of our lives in so many sweet and positive ways. 

Mr. Moon spent a good part of the day on the roof, blowing leaves off. I knew he was doing this and I didn't even go outside to observe because I would have pleaded with him to get off the roof and then I would have cried and he would have said, "Don't worry. I'm fine," and I would have cried some more and gotten mad because he's so stubborn but he didn't fall off, 911 did not have to be called, and I only cried a little bit. 
You can't tell that man anything. 

Well, you can tell him but he won't listen unless he agrees with what you're saying. I will not deny that his stubbornness is one of the main reasons he has done so very well in life but there comes a time...

But let's hear it for stubborn among us and those who love them. Mostly though, let's hear it for Rachel. 

Happy birthday, woman! We love you! See you tomorrow! 

Ms. Moon