Daniel woke up stupid again...

I spent much of the day cleaning and yet, I don't feel like I got much done today. Surprise! Surprise! I did three loads of laundry, ironed some...and still have more to do. I took some of Daniel's clothes to the cleaners...and now I'm $20.00 lighter....for four items! Maybe that's good, but I don't really think so. Tonight we had a good dinner--lemon pepper chicken, steamed broccoli, sweet potato (Sam would be jealous), and a salad. I also made a funfetti cake--daniel's favorite(apparently I'm not worthy of capital letters). That was fun and my cake looks really special. So, I don't exactly have our round cake pans here and I didn't want to do it the easy way in a 9X13 pan so I made three loaves of cake in a single bread pan. I think I need a little more practice at that one...it's quite sad. After dinner we went for a walk. We saw what Janie says is a heron......not really sure since she wasn't here or anything. One of the ladies in our complex has a dalmatian named Riley, he was a sweetheart. We also saw a bummy, which reminds me of my Grandpa. And finally, we saw some really pretty orange day lilies that were unlike any i have ever seen. They weren't like the ones at mom and dad's house, but more like a a real orange crayon or orange jello. BTW, I'm excited about seeing some pictures of the three trees that fell a mom and dad's. I know Dad took some, so I will try to post them when I get there. Maybe soon I will put some exciting pictures up on this site.

The Reston Festival is tomorrow and Sunday. They are setting up tents, different concerts, character drawings, arts and crafts booths, and daniel is really excited about the free balloon animals. I think I'm gonna try to check out the farmers market tomorrow. We are also supposed to pick up Uncle Bill and Janet at the airport tomorrow from their return from Italy.