First day of Spring 🌹 ☔️ 🐣

Hello everyone 👋🏻 

I’m still here and I’ll explain a little farther down.    Today was one of the only days I’ve left home in 2 weeks.  I went to my mother’s retirement home for their Spring Tea.  

This hay bale is always outside,  decorated for the seasons,  and I think this bunny costume is one of the cutest the hay bale has ever worn.  

The spring tea was as nice as can be.  

The ladies behind this bar are some the workers and they had such a nice party set up.  

There was hot tea on every table and so many yummy treats.  

They brought around the food and served us all.  
Below is my plate.  I also had a tiny blueberry scone and a thumbprint cookie.  Everything was delicious and I think all resident women enjoyed it very much.  All the men residents were invited  too but only 1 man attended.  

I had black tea,  a little croissant with chicken salad,  a veggie stick cup with hummus dip in the bottom and fruit salad.  The fruit salad was delicious.  The young woman that made it said the secret ingredient was peach pie filling and I assume she means canned pie filling.  

At home I’m still cutting up lots of fruit and vegetables.  These Tangelo oranges are delicious but very hard to peel.  

I’ve got mostly pepper and tomato seeds started in the house.  I’m really pleased with how well they are growing.  

This is why I’ve been away from blogging.  My husband had a laminectomy back surgery.    He’s been in continuous pain for  about 3 years.  He’s been to different doctors and a chiropractor.  He’s has had physical therapy and multiple prescription and homeopathic pain relievers.  He’s has used a back brace and a special chair.  He traded in his pickup for a more comfortable car.  

He’s had multiple pain shots and multiple spine ablations.  

After trying everything,  he saw a surgeon that several of our friends have successfully been treated by.  The surgeon said he thought he could help him and we decided to.  

It was not easy decision but my husband really felt it was the only option.  

This surgery has a different recovery period than other surgeries.  He’s is supposed to just take it easy until his 2 week post surgery checkup next week.  He’s can’t drive or lift anything over 5 pounds.  

So far,  he is feeling really good.  He is having discomfort from the surgery but he says all the back pain is gone.  

below is his incision and I hope it doesn’t gross any of out too much.  

I think it’s healing up nicely and an RN friend also thinks it looks good.  

What would you all call this outfit below?  

I stopped at Walmart to pick up a prescription and a woman shopper was wearing this very outfit.

  It did not look like she had just rolled out of bed.  Her hair was styled and she was wearing real shoes.  

It looks like pajamas to me.  I live in a college town and I’ve seen people wearing pajama pants in public for years 

But this was new to me,  seeing someone actually wearing a pajama outfit  as streetwear.  

Maybe I’m just out of the loop.  

Or is this a thing people are doing everywhere?   

Happy first day of Spring everyone 

❤️ Rhonda