I was home late Monday but had Olivers kindergarten graduation yesterday so I left early and spent the day up at the University. He was cute as a bug. Although I think these graduations are kind of silly.
Braunwyn is 6 months pregnant now and getting big! She is so cute. She is naming the baby Lucy, so we are planning a Lucile Ball baby shower.
I had a wonderful, wonderful time on my trip the only thing that could have made it better was if my other two daughters were along.
We toured Fort Sumpter, and Fort Moultrie, so much history. Then spent three partial days at the beach where I got sunburned. It was lovely. Took horse and carriage rides, walked the batterie saw a planation. We shopped and ate the most wonderful food. I had never had shrimp and grits and they are so good. Had the best 12-layer coconut cake ever. I am going to try and duplicate it.
Charleston is a walking city as the streets are very narrow, I seldom saw a pickup, like we have out west. We put 14 -17 thousand steps on our fit bits a day. Just so much to see. The architecture on the older homes was so wonderful. I highly recommend going there to site see. It was very expensive, but I think every place is that way now.
I had my echo cardiogram this morning, the had to run an IV as they could not see some things well, and it was started on top of my hand. (OUCH) then they injected something that causes your blood to thin, and I have to leave the bandage on for 6 hours. Great because I only have to work on bridal stuff today, they won't mind a little blood. I knew I had a wedding party coming in this week. The bride is done but the bridesmaids dresses were delayed. The wedding is Saturday and I have three pretty difficult alterations to get done on three dresses that did not fit at all. Oh well I knew this was coming so I am prepared.
Then another mother of the bride came in with a dress where one sleeve would not go up her arm. It was like a size 2 sleeve was put on a size 16 dress. She was frantic, but Sis and I just cut the sleeve out and we will make a double ruffle sleeve out of the hem we cut off, and she will be fine. At least this wedding is not until the 27th.
I have several zippers to put in things also and my plan this week is to get all the zippers done and the bridal party and then call a couple of brides into fit. I think I have one more bride dress for June and I will start on the next week. I need to pull all the July dresses and get those lined up and I think there are at least 4 of those.
Nathan found 2 more rattlesnakes while I was gone making that a total of 11 on the property. Way more than average. So, I started to call pest control companies, and no one does this anymore as the Mountain Rattlesnake is on the endangered species list, and it is hard to distinguish the kinds apart and they will not take responsibility and get fined. Guess what if they are on my property I am killing them. Which I can legally do. It's crazy. I am supposed to carefully look at markings on the head and nose to see if it is the right kind of snake. I do believe the head and nose are where the teeth are and I really don't want a closeup look, so they will be meeting the end of my hoe.
Isn't life exciting? Well, it is here.
I am off to get work done, I have a ton of laundry and then I will have a ton of ironing. I wear 100% cotton and mostly dresses or skirts in the summer. Everything has to be ironed. It is a pain, but with the dry heat cotton is a must.
I missed you guys, catch me up if anything important happened to you while I was gone.
God is good
Kim
