Happy Mother's Day

The present I gave myself for Mother's Day was unusual. I fixed waffles for breakfast this morning. When I sat down and started to pour the heated syrup on my waffle, the top of the pitcher came off, and hot syrup went all over me, the table, and the floor. Well, yuck! At least John and Margaret were there to clean up the table and floor while I cleaned up myself and changed clothes. The day did get better after that.

Today was the day Paul graduated from The College of Charleston. We didn't go because each graduate gets only three tickets. We planned to watch a webcast at home. It was supposed to start at 2:30, but was delayed because of a strong storm that came through. The ceremony finally started about 4:15, and we saw Paul walk across the stage about 2 1/2 hours later. There were several showers during the procession of graduates. The ceremony ended about 7:30. We're bad - we left the webcast after Paul got his degree, and had supper. (Sue called later, and she, Randy, and Sarah [who were there in person] also left after Paul walked across the stage.)

The women graduates all wear white, carrying a dozen red roses. The men wear summer tuxes (white jackets with black trousers). Those are the rules. However, these are college students - and they do tend to get creative. Many of them (male and female) were wearing flip-flops, a couple had on sneakers. I don't think there was single woman wearing hose (these are SMART women - after all think of the heat and humidity in Charleston!). Many of the dresses were strapless; a few were long; 3-4 women wore trousers; 2-3 wore tailored suits. Obviously young woman today have never tried on a dress and looked at themselves in a full-length mirror. Surely they wouldn't have worn dresses that tight if they could see themselves from behind.

Anyway, it was great fun to see all these young people. And to do it from the comfort of my La-Z-Boy chair, in the air conditioning (not in Charleston's heat and humidity). And another of our youngsters heads out into the world.

Today's picture is a fresh snowfall above Creede, CO.