She was meeting the Public Health director at 9:00 to update her food service application license and discovered she didn’t have a “back flow” device.
Fortunately one of her guardian angels Eric the plumber dropped everything and came and installed it for her this morning.
Tyler, another angel, aka the public health director then came and checked everything and apart from changing some light bulbs and getting some rubber coving fitted she is good to go.
Angels 3&4 Brian and Chris will make sure that’s done Monday so by next week she’ll be taking bookings for her tea parties and be an official purveyor of teas and treats.
You know though that it says “it never rains but it pours” well it was like a monsoon today. One of the windows in the space Paula is renting for her boutique started leaking. We had to sop it up with some old curtains that had been preserved to clean up paint. Please pray we get no more rain till the window gets fixed on Monday.
There were lots of good things today too. After all life is a balance.
Auntie Carolyn came and was our first customer. She bought treasures and took tea. She also took Ma’s pic to show it’s not a dream and then Paula took one of the two of them sipping and snacking.
Soon after came Donny and Barb bearing gifts of tea itself and then came Catherine and Auntie Denise.
To end the day in came a beautiful bouquet from Auntie Lori. It’s perfect on the front desk for the official opening May 1.
So tears of sadness turned around to tears of joy with the help and love of many angels.
Ma left early but heck the bro and Pa were out of here even before I did my first pee.
The bro had to go for his second vaccine shot about an hours drive away and it was scheduled for 7:00 am. Pa went along for the ride for a guys day out. I’m miffed they left me home alone. Especially miffed when I heard they went to a diner and ate BACON!
Herself had last minute things to do like get her vendors license and get in the basic stocks for the “soft opening”
She served her first tea to her pals Karen and Sandy who stopped by as they were in town.
It wasn’t a fancy “Cream Tea” in fact it was iced but on a day like today that’s what we all need.
When the nerves are wrecked we all must stay cool.
It’s warming up and now that everything is getting buffed and polished and the shelves are full Ma says I can’t come inside and chill as I once did.
She kept me in the car today as it wasn’t too hot but as the temperature is on the increase that won’t work.
We were able to chat today as herself was painting the bed head (aka as the sign). The abbreviated version of Tom Sawyer!
Just as she finished that and went to hang Auntie Hema’s work of art a handy man arrived to do some work for Auntie Paula and he brought his dog along.
We hung out for a while watching our humans and sharing how lucky we are to be canines.
These humans really don’t know how to live. All that fussing for what?
Usually when my Ma can’t get something to work she gets all flustered and angry. Today I worked on her.
I was like chill Ma breathe deep like me and trust that with my support all things are possible.
See the printer had been on the blink on and off for weeks and every time she’s gone near it she nearly put it through the window. The faint hearted would have fainted if they’d heard her.
Today after my good council and a trip to Church she felt equipped to tackle the technical trouble. She got it fixed without a single swear word.
The second bill she printed though caused a paper jam. Still not a single sound left her lips. She fixed that too.
The bro then returned from college first year finished already apart from the exams.
I am not confident the containment of her expletives will continue now he’s back as he’s already strewn his stuff everywhere but no matter I’ll love her still.
Coming back from our trot this morning Ma and me spotted two big boxes at our front door.
Had Santa come again since we’ve been so good we wondered?
Not Santa but Auntie Hema.
We couldn’t wait to open them. One was very heavy. It was filled to the brim with my Dads favorite Indian treats. For sure his sister loves him so. He loves her right back just as much. They are super yummy and all handmade.
The second box was bigger but lighter. It contained a gift so special it caused a little tear to appear.
Auntie Hema had made Mum a work of art for her tearoom. She is very gifted at embroidery as well as making snacks and had out done herself with this work of art.
Took he five months to stitch this beauty. So if you ever asked yourself what is Tea? It’s all these things.
You know what? We bros also got special pressies. Aaron got these big sweets called luddos and I got a chicken. He’s not a real chicken but he sure squeaks like one. My cousin Brian choose him specially for me.
We are all very happy, grateful and touched. We feel so loved
Saw a post this morning that’s so true. I don’t care what my Ma wears or which car she drives as long as I can go too. I wonder why they posted such a sad looking dog though for this message! Maybe he didn’t get to go.
I do get embarrassed by her dumpster diving at times. Last night she took it to a new low and recovered a little cabinet form my girlfriends trash. She says it’s perfect for her treasures.
So it was that I hung my head in shame as we took off for work this morning as I recalled the events of last evening.
soon lifted it as there’s absolutely no point in being grumpy for longer than a few minutes.
I was even happier on the way home when she stopped to get me snacks.
She bought cookies too and she couldn’t wait to dive into them as she was starving.
Big smile time as I got to share. Now just imagine if I’d taken a lump out of her earlier I’d be snacking on humble pie rather than Lemon Shortbread!
My Ma is off her rocker. She got up at five, took me for a pee, then took out the trash and got ready for work.
We left before seven. It had snowed. About three inches of the white stuff.
I thought she’d stop along the way for me to do the big job. No way. On we went. She had a hot date with the electricians.
Once they were up and running she got me in the car and stopped a few minutes later for me to do the necessary. She fell in the snow. Her bum was soaked.
Off we went in the direction of home. That I thought was a very short business day. No it wasn’t. She stopped at the doctors got her annual good girl check, swung round home, picked up lightbulbs, made a sandwich and took off again!
The snow was melting by now and the sky had turned blue otherwise I’d have been looking for groundhogs.
Back at the Tearoom the electricians had the floorboards up and we’re in the crawl space under the floor. Ma was close to a breakdown. They do say the darkest hour is just before dawn. I can attest to that as I saw it this morning.
Well the good news is they got what they had to do done and better news yet the bro took a spin by to see the place and took me home.
I was glad as I’d had just enough of work for one day and needed a little shut eye.
