(48) Restful peaceful day ~ with a delightful book to listen to

Today began with my waking and my Husband, already awake,

telling me that our guests for tomorrow's dinner had to cancel

due to illness.

And just like that I had a free day to do other things,

than de-cluttering the house, preparing food and setting the table for a 

dinner party tomorrow.

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Not that I would have minded, anyone who has read my blog

for a while knows how much I love decorating the table for a 

dinner party and I already knew what dishes I had planned to use! 

 However, in light of the change,

I had a leisurely breakfast,

and then cleaned up a bit and then got out 

sewing boxes and socks that needed darning as well

as eye masks that I find so comfortable but that

eventually split at the outside seams, with foam thus

exposed and I find them unusable in that state. 

And I got out the Wind in the Willows CDs that I got

from my NYC library!

  

We had a simple lunch of spinach salad and chicken burgers,

with a small bowl of ice cream for dessert!

And my socks got heels mended, with 

the egg darning socks being used to great effect

and I pinned and sewed shut the outside seams of the 

eye mask; does look funny, doesn't it?

They are so effective though and I am so happy to have them fixed! 

Vespers and then a quick trip up a few blocks to our upscale grocer

and I got the above sandwich for dinner,

raisin walnut chicken salad with red grapes.

Delicious! 

I have 2 sleeping masks to fix, so I listened to a bit more

of the Wind in the Willows as I worked on it again a bit tonight. 

I hope to resume work on this on Monday!

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I am so thankful I was feeling better today.

That flu shot was a pain for sure; 

I hope, at least, that I don't get the flu this year!

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May God bless and help each of us.....