T Stands For Gifts From Friends

 

I had planned to bring my ugly Wichita State mug outside and enjoy a cup of coffee while watching and listening to the birds singing.

However, the best laid plans of mice and (wo)men prevented that from happening.  That shiny stuff under my table is rain and it is coming down steady.  It has been for nearly three hours.  No way was I going to take photos at my new picnic table today.  Yes, when I took these photos it was about noon.  My friend Scott will be by later today, but we will need to either eat on the front porch or at the kitchen table.

 

Currently I'm at my kitchen table admiring some gifts from friends.

Of course, I have to show something I purchased for myself.

I stopped by the Nifty Nut House on my way home from the post office and picked up 1/2 lb. of cheesecake fudge.  All for me and no one else!

My ugly Wichita State mug looks out of place on my table, but it is full of freshly ground French Roast coffee with half and half.  I wasn't about to put it in a cup at this point.  It's what I use whenever I'm outside or in my craft room.  It's so ugly and deformed, I once left it in a workshop I attended in San Diego and it was still there when I went back looking for it hours later!

One of the gifts I received was from my dear friend Halle.  These are the best masks EVER.  Seriously!  I can talk (and I talk a lot) and her masks never ever slip down under my nose.  Thanks to my uncaring mail carrier, I almost didn't get this.

These are the reverse side.  Halle asked me if I had received her package and I went to my mailbox to see if it was there.  Sadly, it was not.  However, I decided while I was away from the computer, I would water my plants on my front porch.  Apparently, Denise who lives two doors south of me was just getting home from work and noticed I was outside.  She also noticed the flag was still up on her mailbox, which is similar, albeit smaller, than mine.

Denise, who I have known since she moved into her home about two years after I bought mine, decided to take things into her own hands.  She ran up to my yard with Halle's mail, telling me the package had arrived the day before.  When she saw my name, she returned it to her mailbox for the carrier to pick up the following day.  Apparently, if you have no mail coming to your home that day, even though the flag is up, the carrier isn't obligated to stop.  When she saw her flag was up the second day, she played savior and saw to it I got Halle's gift.  Halle and I both need to thank Denise for getting it to me.  

Besides the lovely masks, Halle also sent one of Mini-me's graduation cards.  I first "met" Halle when Mini-me was four years old.  Now she's headed to college in the fall.  Sorry folks.  No peeking under the envelope.  Thank you more than you could possibly know, Halle!

My second gift I received this week came from Michigan.

And because Lisca likes to see the postage stamps, I had to show the Cookie Monster my dear friend Jeanie sent.  Can't you just hear him saying Cooookee?

 

Jeanie told me she had something she was sure I would enjoy.  These are the wonderful gifts that came in that envelope.

I'm fairly certain she was talking about this wonderful card featuring Ike and Mamie.  I'm sure many of you remember I spent nearly a year every Friday taking people through the Eisenhower complex I visited in 2019, the last time there was a Smithsonian Day.

This was on the back.  It was written by someone named Ruth who was very happy about the election results.  Thank you so much Jeanie for thinking of me and these wonderful gifts you sent.

 

Now it was time to open that box of fudge.

 

I can't wait to sink my teeth into some of this fudge.  Looks like I'm going to get this published just in the nick of time.

I would also like to comment on the Tulsa Race Riots I spoke of earlier.  Several people have indicated the riots were swept under the rug because it was embarrassing to whites, while blacks feared if they brought it up, the same scenario could happen all over again.  Maybe now there's a spotlight on the massacre, it will be included in our U.S. history books.

It's now time to share your own drink inspired post this week.  It can be gifts you received, photos, a place you visited, movies, postcards, mail art, junk mail, catalogs, books, sketches, mixed media, drawings, paintings, tags, scrapbooking, or other art that is digital, hybrid, or traditional, as long as it in some way relates back to a drink, any drink.  Regardless, please share below and Bleubeard and I, along with the rest of the T gang will be by to visit.   Please link only your T post and not your blog in general.  Bleubeard would like to remind you that old photos are acceptable because they may be taken any time, not just on Tuesday and most assuredly not just this year.  

 

Since many of you don't like Inlinkz, this T Tuesday link will only be open until midnight on the 2nd, which is when we share our Second on the 2nd posts.  It's best you share your drink post either today or Tuesday until midnight MY time.