May Highlights

I just looked back what I wrote on the first of May. I had the title, Gateway to summer. Yup, I thought we were done with winter, but Mother Nature had other plans. We had a lot of rain, cloudy days more than sunny days and not so hot weather. We started our gardening and I now feel, maybe we did start of too early? Anyhow, the plants need to learn, isn’t survival of the fittest in their DNA?

May surprised me with many things. We made a quick weekend trip to Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love. We also met family whom we had not met in many years.

Philadelphia has so much history!

Our trip to Mammoth Caves National Park was planned well in advance but the best part was, our family were able to do everything I had planned. In fact, we made an additional visit to Nashville from there. Nashville has one of the biggest Ganesha Temple in the US. My husband stumbled onto his college mate and his family there.

Fried Green Tomatoes 🍅 ! Really smart way to cook tomatoes! Had it at Mammoth Cave National Park.
We drove nearly 450 miles to walk for two miles inside the cave! Isn’t that interesting 😀!

In between the weekends, my young man had multiple activities, did his mile at the Pittsburgh Marathon and kept himself and us busy. Remember, we just kept pushing ourselves even when the days were muggy and cloudy.

When my husband asked what does June have for us? I told him nothing as of now. But I do have somethings planned but I am just going to take one day at a time. I am really hoping to see some sunny days, so I can go back to my pots and plant some pretty flowers.

My son did paint the planter and his tiny plant planted! More to come

By the way cold weather didn’t deter us from having icecream and slushy!

By the way if you are in Bowling Green Kentucky don’t miss Chaney’s ice cream. We could not make it to the farm but had it on both the days we were there. They were yummy!

So if you have missed any of my blogs this month here are my May Highlights.

Our trip to Philadelphia: https://specialmomsblog.mom/2025/05/12/organizing/

Pittsburgh Marathon:

Our trip to Mammoth Caves

For Natalie’s Weekend Coffee Share:

13 responses to “May Highlights”

  1. Very interesting read.
    Thanks for sharing💕

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      1. You are welcome.

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  2. Our month of May was mainly rain and clouds too! I think spring missed us.

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    1. Yes we missed spring 😀! April showers continued to May rains!

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  3. Awesome sissy.. So nice to see the cave walk.. Sweet painted planter.. With vibrant flowers.. Thanks for the links to cover the missed ones.. Nice to meet a friend in surprise.. Keep going as u always do dears.. Thanks for motivating me too.. Sunny or cloudy.. We are on our way.. Thanks sissy.. Trying is the best part. 💐🙏👌😍

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  4. This is a very busy and fun-looking month. I’ve never had Fried Green Tomatoes, though the movie is one of my favourites.

    Great planter.

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    1. I have never seen the movie just heard about it. I was curious how it can be fried since it is messy fruit/vegetable! 😀

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  5. Looks like you had a good month despite the weather. I enjoyed my visits to Philadelphia last year. Thank you for your weekend coffee share.

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  6. I understood that fried green tomatoes was a southern thing. I had some when I was visiting Texas. They’re so yummy.

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    1. Yes they are specific to one part of the country.

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  7. I’m late commenting from last week. Enjoyed your post and all the photos. We have a cave a little ways from our house that people flock to. It’s pretty neat but not sure I’d drive 450 miles..lol.

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