Joys for the 28th week of the year.

As has become my weekly Wednesday post, I am listing the daily joys I had for the week. The aim is to review them at the end of this most hellacious year. I honestly hope the joys improve for everyone, but I look and find at least one joy each and every day. And if I am honest I have more than one joy daily, but some days I forget to write them down and by the time I do my daily post I don't remember to add them.
I have several friends right now, both in my 3-D world and in my blog world who are struggling right now. I count it as a joy to know them locally and virtually and include them in my daily thoughts and every prayer.  Life is good, and I am blessed beyond anything I deserve.

Wednesday: We are calling this our "Let them eat cake"day. Son3's former high school band director has been using the isolation time to hone his cake decorating skills. I think it was accidental honing though. Since his wife is pregnant with baby4 and he had 3 other kids under 7, they played it safe and stayed home. All of their celebrations occurred during quarantine, so he made cakes for the kids' birthdays, his wife's birthday and for their anniversary with a set of decorating tools he and his wife bought pre-kids. Like with much of the world, post children life and working leaves little time to try decorating cakes. During this time with no school he tried all sorts of techniques and his cake pictures were posted on Facebook. When I asked him if he was selling them, and if so would he bake one for us, I got an immediate yes! Pretty cakes are pretty, but delicious beautiful cakes are THE BOMB!

Thursday: Mom's house was ready and everything was out and displayed for the estate sale! We even had a couple of pre-sale buyers who called and asked if they could come by early. Since I love Allison and Laura it was easy to say yes.

Friday:  The first day of the estate sale was done. It was a little slow in the beginning but we did have one person who more than made up for anyone who was not there early. She stayed about 2 hours and bought a huge amount of stuff. Thank you Miss 2 Hours. Also 4 of my cousins came so we got to visit with them a little bit.

Saturday: End of estate sale. It is over, done with and we don't have to do it again. I will try and sell the furniture via Facebook Marketplace, and whatever does not sell we will donate. As a special joy on Saturday people were at the sale specifically to look at the house. We got the names of two people who are interested in buying it right now. Woo hoo!
Also 3 cousins came on Saturday. 2 of them had been the day before and I had a little more time to spend with them during a lull Saturday.
After we got home, Son3 and DIL3 had company who stayed and ate dinner with us. Son3 did most of the cooking which was an added joy.

Sunday: I woke in time for our online church service, then had a wonderful lazy day filled with "Killing Eve".

Monday: We sold Mom's car. They got a really good car, a great deal and as soon as the check clears, we are done with it forever!
An added surprise was Lola. She is not a showgirl but is Son3 and DIL3's cat. Lola and Ella are relegated to the upstairs portion of the house because I am allergic to them. I am a late night person and was sitting on the couch in the den when I saw movement out of the corner of my eye. I looked over toward the stairs and saw nothing, then a little black and white head popped out between the stair rails staring at me. She did it about 5 times, looking and surveying but not moving from her position midway down the staircase . I let them know they had an escapee and as soon as she heard them she made her way back up. She really is a cute cat. Ella, on the other hand, hates me and wants to eat my face!

Tuesday: One of the items I took from Mom's house is called a Turks Cap pan. I had no idea it even had a specific name until a local cast iron specialist came by Mom's house to look at things none of us wanted. We always just called it the corn muffin pan. It was the only piece I wanted, I guess because I remember eating those corn muffins made in that pan when I was a kid. The pan itself was dated (by the cast iron guy) as being from the early 40's which meant it was most likely my grandmother's pan first. Tuesday night at dinner I used it like Mom always did, including putting about 1/8 teaspoon of bacon fat in the bottom of each "cup" and heating it in the oven before adding the cornbread batter. The results? Cornbread perfection!

Now go into the 29th week of the year and look for the joys, large and small. They are there and are worth finding!