Playing Hookey

I was supposed to have spent yesterday afternoon getting ready to host a garden club picnic this afternoon.  Instead, I went with The Husband to Manassas to mow his mother's lawn (and I picked up Emma's prescription refill while I was there.)

While we were on our way home, a friend called.  She had been given complimentary tickets to the evening's Barenaked Ladies concert ... you know the rest of the story.

We rushed home, changed clothes, fed the dogs, and grabbed a bite for dinner for ourselves on the way.

We had so much fun!!!

The opening act was a band called "Jukebox the Ghost", three young men from Philadelphia, and they are fabulous!  Anyone who can work the word "tangentially" into stage banter can count me among their fans.  Barenaked Ladies was also wonderful, and I can guarantee that I will be humming their songs for days and days.

Anyway .....

Because I played hookey yesterday, I have to get moving and finish preparing for the arrival of my guests.