Unexpected Surprise

Well, I suppose all surprises are unexpected or else they wouldn't be a surprise now, would they?

I received  a surprise on Friday. And I was able to surprise My Sweetheart with the same surprise. He thought something must be up when I called him on his cell, just before supper, and told him he might want to come in for a shower. Typically I don't encourage him to come in for a shower before we dine when I know he's just going to go back outside and continue muckin' in the dirt. But on Friday evening, early Friday evening, I phoned him, even though he was in the yard, visible from my vantage point in the kitchen, and told him he just might want to come in for a shower.

He didn't. The cement people were here working on the cement for the pole shed and he was engrossed in that.  Too engrossed to pull away to come and get cleaned up for the surprise!

The funny thing was, just to back up before we were both surprised, that right after lunch, when I ran down to the basement freezer to rummage around, seeing what looked good for supper, I came upstairs with a huge beef roast.  And I thought to myself, as I was bringing this huge roast upstairs, 'why, on earth am I bringing up such a huge roast?'  This will feed us for quite a few days.  But I set it in the roaster and put it in the oven anyway.  And then, My Sweetheart's sister phoned me - or maybe I phoned her- I don't remember right now - and since we usually talk for quite a while when we are on the phone, I set the phone on 'speaker' and proceeded to talk to her as I made a pie. I had no intention of making a pie when we started conversing - it just happened.  Cocoanut cream pie.  Home-made.
So, here I had a huge roast in the oven and a pie cooling on the cupboard. Dear Son was going to grab a bite to eat at the volleyball tournament. DD, My Sweetheart and I were, apparently, going to have a feast.

At around 4:30 in the afternoon DD and I ran into town. I had a cheque to cash at the credit union.  My cousin works there. After cashing my cheque I invited her to come out for supper.  She was going to be coming out that evening anyway, so why not come out and eat with us?  We had lots of food.

Just before getting into my car I saw 2 women walking towards me. 1 of them I recognized as My Sweetheart's cousin.  She had just recently moved into town. And then she introduced me to her sister. My Sweetheart's cousin who I had only ever heard about.  I had never met her.  And I always wanted to. We didn't know she was down for a visit.  I was so surprised and so happy to finally meet Esther - My Sweetheart's cousin from Carrot River. I have an uncle who lives in Carrot River, and I found out that night that Esther knows my uncle.  Small world!

Anyway, My Sweetheart's cousins and my cousin were able to join us for supper that night! We had lots of food! His cousins were his surprise by the way. I think he was wishing he would have come in for that shower!