Flowers and Mother's Day Gifts

  Boy, blogging is weird. The internet is weird. Here I am blogging along quietly,viewership way down since I stopped posting daily,when all of a sudden the views  shoot up to more than seven times what they were the day before! What makes the difference? Why did thousands of people suddenly decide to view the blog? And where the heck are those views going,because they aren't on the most recent posts? (When I was posting every day I was getting big numbers, but they weren't going on the daily posts either. So why did not posting every day make a difference? I know. It has something to do with showing up in searches. But then what happened that day?)
  Anyway, on to other things. My lovely lilacs are in full bloom now.

I keep moving the self starts around. There are more bushes at the back door,and in the side yard.

I'm on my second vase full in the house,and enjoying the wonderful smell. Ivy likes to eat them! 

  I also have loads of iris' this year.

As you can see,I have not tidied my flower beds. So sue me. I did mow the grass today.

 Tuesday night I worked on one of my unfinished things. It's not quite done yet, but it's really close. When it is done I'll show you.
  I also said I'd show you my Mother's day gifts. Well first I should show you one of my birthday gifts that I forget to show you! It arrived a bit after my birthday because Ken ordered it for me and it took a while. I thought I was getting one,(I found it online and put it in my watching!),but when it arrived there were two mini decks of cards.

They had to be punched out and the boxes had to be folded together.

They aren't 52 card decks,so maybe that's why they give you two. I like there to be complete decks,(and mini books should have readable pages.). But mini decks of cards are always unrealistically thick when there are 52 cards,because the cards can't be realistically thin enough to be to scale without being like tissue paper,and nobody wants tissue paper cards.

  So these little guys are thin, but not tissue paper thin. They look good,even if it is hard to close the lids all the way because the cards are so tightly in there.
  For Mother's Day I got some lilac lotion from Ivy. I have said before how much I love the smell of lilacs. They sell lilac lotion at a few places, but the girls always shop for cruelty free,which is harder to find. Emma gave me a Hallmark Princess Leia ornament, and a pretty "Mom,I love you with all my heart" picture frame with a picture of the two of us in it. Ken gave me edibles,including some Tunnock's tea cakes. They are sort of like those marshmallow Wagon Wheel thingies,with coconut,the difference being that the marshmallow in the Tunnock's is vegetarian.  (Your regular marshmallows are made with 'animal skin, connective tissue, and bone',usually hooves and things! Bleh.)
  Emma also gave me these little goodies.

They are various scales. Most of the pieces are 1/6 scale or thereabouts.

  Ken also gave me a non edible gift. He's so crazy. He hates to buy me anything if I know I'm getting it. So if I'm with him and I find something I want as a gift, he'll refuse to get it for me because, "You'll know you're getting it and I can't surprise you." Usually that means I don't get it at all because he can't find it again, or forgets, or can't remember where we saw it or which thing it was. In 2018 I found this doll at Walmart.

Sorry about the dark picture. There was a lighter one,but it was out of focus.
 

Looks like a whole different doll.

I said I wanted her, and when I looked through them, this one had a particular smirky grin. 

There was just a slight difference in her face paint compared to all the others that made her better than all the others. I insisted I wanted that particular one.
 

  There was some back and forth about how he couldn't surprise me if he bought it then,versus  better to not be surprised and get the one I wanted. He finally bought her. But then I didn't get her that Christmas. He said he forgot where he hid her. Then my birthday came. And then Mother's day. Then another Christmas! I still hadn't gotten her. He still claimed he couldn't find her. How even a slob like Ken could lose something that big was...

Although I know for a fact there's still a yard decoration of a girl in the foyer somewhere,(Ken's 'office' is in there.), that he bought for me and hid years ago. I came across it once,but put it back so he could surprise me with it. It's had to be in there at least 10 years now.
  So my birthday came this year, and now Mother's Day,and I finally got her! He won't tell me how long he's known where she was!
  So,that's it for this post. See you soon.