Downtown

Galen and I decided to walk downtown today and do a few errands. It was a bit overcast so we took our umbrella and hoped it wouldn't rain.  

A few stops here and a few stops there, stopping by our wonderful hardware store to check out what they had.  You can find just about anything in this place.  

The BB&T banks towers.  

And a stop by the library to rent a few movies for the weekend and to stop and smell the roses in the rose garden.  Then homeward bound.  

And guess what we found at the hardware store?  

A globe for our study that lights up, which we will keep on as a night light.  

Lovin' it!  

Have a great weekend everyone!

Winter, in this heat??

It's 100 plus degrees outside and hotter than all blazes, 

so, yes, I am cooling off today inside and reading the most wonderful book... 

 "A Week in Winter" by Marcia Willett.  

It takes place in England and the Cotswalds and it's all about an enchanting old country house called "Mooregate".  

It's the kind of book that makes you want to curl up on the sofa and enjoy a cup of tea, 

or in my case a cup of coffee....yes, even on a hot day like today.  

I found this book at our local library for $1.00.  

Love a bargain!

Hope you're staying cool!  

Sunny and a bit warmer

With temperatures a bit warmer today, Otis and Riley enjoyed being outside this morning in the back yard playing, sniffing around for Mr. Squirrel, and running after the birds.



Hubby and I decided to take a walk downtown around noon time since it was such a nice day and we thought we'd get some lunch and then stop by the library.

We had lunch at Sweet Maria's Bistro. A wonderful little place downtown.

We enjoyed our chicken salad sandwiches,

and a really good cup of coffee, and of course, a dark chocolate brownie with cream cheese icing. Yum!

We continued on our walk, and around the corner we came to Park Place. We've never been inside this shop, so we decided to stop. It's a fabulous big victorian house.

What a great shop filled with unique home furnishings and gifts. I didn't buy anything, but I plan to stop back again.

We met our final destination ~ the library ~ about a block away. It was so nice to spend a few hours browsing and reading and just relaxing in the quiet.

The sun was still warm on our way home. What a nice day for a walk.

Lunch downtown

Galen was spending some time at the library the other day and suggested we have lunch downtown.

Wonderful, I said.

Have I ever showed you our library? It's a beautiful old building.

We walked from the library to the Sugar Plum Shoppe downtown to get our lunch.

This is the Edna Boykin Cultural Center, across the street from the Sugar Plum Shoppe.

Our boxed lunches from the Sugar Plum Shoppe included a deviled egg and dessert along with a sandwich and chips. We carried them back to the library lawn and sat under a big shade tree.

Did I mention, our library has a rose garden.

It was nice to have a picnic lunch downtown with my hubby, something we don't do very often.

Be sure to take time out to smell the roses, and have a picnic lunch too! Bon Appetit!

Check my etsy shop for this bon appetit painting and some other picnic and summer time fun items.

a Saturday in Wilson

With errands to run and things to do my husband and I started off Saturday morning at the hardware store downtown to get a few things, then decided to take some pictures of the whirligigs that are placed all over Wilson. The first whirligig was at the Wilson County Public Library, the second at the employment office, third was downtown on Nash Street where there are two of them, fourth was at the Wilson Chamber of Commerce building, and the last at the Rose Garden. While downtown we picked up a box lunch at The Sugar Plum Shoppe and headed for the rose garden to have lunch. The roses were beautiful and oh so fragrant. After we left the rose garden we headed for Starbucks. Had to have our coffee. We sat outside and enjoyed the afternoon.

Later, we took a drive out to the Wilson County Fairgrounds to see the bikers, Easy Riders. They were in town for the weekend. Every year they come to Wilson.








Home in the afternoon, Galen worked in his Man Space and I caught up on some work that needed to be done and then relaxed on the back porch.

In the evening we went to the Wilson Tobs baseball game at the Fleming Stadium. The Tobs are college players and our mascot is a tobacco worm. Wilson, as you know is known for it's tobacco. We lost the game, but we had a great time. 10:00pm Headed for home.