May 6th Already?!

                                                       Apple blossoms

 When I finally picked up my lap top this morning and realized it was almost a week since I posted, and I even missed two days of reading your posts, I was surprised and a bit baffled about where the week went. 

I was finishing up watching the Coronation in London, which we had recorded. Even with fast forwarding it took a long time to watch but then we like pomp and ceremony.  

I guess we were just busy this week, but I do know that we were at Irene's last home track meet. Next week she will compete at the league meet in her three main events. This week the weather was cold in the stadium but we stuck it out to watch her run the 100m hurdles - second place:

then 300m hurdles - second place:

The 200m dash, third place, 

and the anchor leg of the 4x400m relay. where she brought her team home for a victory.

Before the meet events started there was a celebration honoring all of the seniors. Jill organized a lot of her teams honoring, and each senior athlete had a poster, a crown, a gift bag, and ran the tunnel of raised arms of the other team members. 

Jill got a little weepy after setting up the hurdles for the last time. She and her brother both competed in track in this stadium, and now her kids, Isaac and Irene, are finished. It makes me a little sad too to have it coming to an end, but I told her coaches don't cry and she went off to do her job. 

The meet still lingers in my mind and will live in my heart. 

I know we went shopping for plants on Thursday and for more garden stuff in Friday. Tom got a new hose reel, since our old one just broke.

Today between watching the Coronation, doing my physical therapy and my stationary bike and watching the running of the Kentucky Derby, I picked a new bouquet of flowers. 

Now I think after I push publish I have just enough time to work my Wordle before figuring out how to stretch some left overs for our dinner.