Post-Wedding and Father's Day

 Immediately after the wedding we had to set up for the 3rd party of the weekend. Gift opening and Father's Day picnic with my family who was still in town. I was up bright and early Sunday morning (as I always am up early) and got things rearranged.

 With all the gifts that arrived by mail/UPS/FedEX we thought there wouldn't be any gifts to open, but alas, the generosity of friends and family has no limits. Galadriel  and Celeborn had nothing left on their registry. It is always refreshing to be reminded how generous, kind, good, and loving so many people are.

 We gave my dad a talking Trump mug. LOLOL!!! 😂

 We found no one had put the cake away from the wedding but Eowyn found it. And no animals or insects had been at it either. I guess everyone and everything was exhausted from our wedding efforts!

 We then had a major take down of tables and chairs and loading up of many boxes of supplies.

 We gave away many of the flowers at the wedding reception but we still have a nice array of flowers to enjoy.

 We spend Sunday evening after my family left with a dear friend. When you are eating leftovers from a wedding reception and drinking fine wine, the wine is to be had in paper cups.

 By 10:00 am Monday morning tent, tables, chairs, and everything was gone.

 First thing was Galadriel's bed of 20 years was removed and disposed of and rearranging thoughts began.

Eleanor and I attended the funeral of a 24 year old cousin (born a month after Samwise) who was killed in a car accident. Please pray for the repose of the soul of Sammy.  We visited with a very special family that day as well.

 Lunch with Eleanor at the Pine Cone Restaurant.

 That is one giant cookie.

then our chicks arrived. First batch we were called into Madison to pick up at the post office. The rest came to the local post office. The first batch came beautifully and all survived. The 2nd batch about 20 died. We were not able to do a local pick up due to corona messing things up and post office is a bad way to deliver baby chicks. No idea why I forgot to take photos of the chicks.

 Storms were a-comin' rollin' in after a lovely visit with dear, dear friends.

 Later we discovered the interesting white streaks in the rain was hail.

 When we went out to eat for our 25th wedding anniversary with friends/family (and family should always be friends) we saw the remains of the hail that hit a handful of miles away from our house.

 Really neat pictures Eleanor took of Merry while waiting for TKD classes on the mats.

 And the new abnormal begins.

We went over to Sam's place to help him with some cleaning. I gave him an appropriate house warming gift for the year 2020. 😂 I was highly amused, he was not. I crack me up!