What's on your menu today (PHOTO FRIDAY) RNYers?

Great pics!

Good morning everyone! I don't think we've planned a single thing this weekend beyond making candied bacon and since that requires about 20 mins of effort we really don't have anything planned this weekend. I would like to spend some time with my mom and sister if I can just because I haven't seen them in awhile. It hasn't actually been a long time, about a week for each of them, but we live close and get together fairly often. Not 100% of the plan for today even. I know he has an appointment so we'll be out for a bit and my menu is slightly up in the air. 

QOTD We've slacked off a little on the random acts recently but since I'm not working we're not leaving the house as often which limits the opportunities. We keep a small stash of ziplock bags full of stuff in the car to hand out to anyone we see in need. My family organizes a charity golf tournament to raise money for our local Ronald McDonald House (in memory of my Dad) and in doing so we acquired a stack of free sandwich coupons so we put them in a bag with stuff like granola bars, meat sticks, gum, coupons for coffee etc and pass them out when we can. When I'm out in town I always hold doors for people or let them go in front of me but that's not a rare thing in our small town. 

B- coffee w/ SF hazelnut

L- 4 slices deli turkey and grainy dijon mustard

D- ???

S- protein drink, ???

My first pic is from 2012, my sisters wedding, it's my mom, my uncle, my godson (love), my favourite aunt in the world, me and of course my sister up front. With the exception of my cousin who was pregnant in BC at the time, this is all that remained of my dads family. My aunt, uncle and godson all live in BC and my aunt has been hugely supportive my entire life and continues to be from 2670 miles away. Leading up to the wedding I was losing weight and my aunt tailored that dress for me a couple times. Since she is so far away now and can't see my progress I thought I'd pull out the dress yesterday and let her know when it fits so she'd have an idea of how things are progressing. It fit yesterday. 

Pic #2 is very special to me and it hangs right outside my bedroom door so I see it everyday. It's me and my dad, which is special enough, but the reason it's means so much to me is that I saw it for the first time after he died. We grew up in a very unique country setting with neighbours right next door who also had kids our age so our parents were very close and after my dad died they brought out piles of pictures from our childhoods and this was one of them. 

The last pic is a thing I love. My dad had a huge collection of shirts. Huge. No t-shirts, or sweaters in the pile but short sleeve collared shirts, all day everyday. We counted 200+ and even though he was a big guy he didn't shy away from pattern or colour. After he passed away my mom, sister, aunt and I all got quilts made from his shirts. This is on my grab it if there's a fire list. 

Hope everyone has a great Friday and an even better weekend!!

There is so much love in this whole post 

That quilt is so beautiful!!! And that picture of you and your dad.... truly priceless 

Aww, that brought a tear to my eye.

That quilt is a wonderful idea. Thanks for sharing your special pictures.

Beautiful, the sentiments and the photos.

Very sweet!

Love your quilt.  After my mother passed we purchased teddy bears and had a relative make clothes for the bears out of my mom's clothes.

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Awesome pictures!

I made a quilt for my sons high school graduation from special tshirts I sVed from him growing up.