A Summer Monday! My Den is BACK!!!!

Since we went to bed so early last night, I actually woke up early! NOT my norm, I assure you!

It is a wonderful thing to wake up leisurely and know you can linger in bed as long as you want.

It is a luxurious feeling!!!

It was rather a shock to me when I took my coffee outside and discovered that I needed to WATER some of my plants!!! After all the rain we have had it was a SHOCK to see some of my flowers shriveled up and turning brown!! *Note to self - hand water daily!!*

Our Texas Sage does NOT need watering as it is a native plant and does well left alone.

This was the very first time it has bloomed this season and is usually a sign of weather change.

No weather changes that I can tell. Today was our 9th dry day in a row!!

However, rain is in the forecast for the weekend and, while it is NOT the drenching floods that we had recently, I DID dream of water coming in last night so I dumped the makeshift sand bags into the purchased ones and they are now neatly lined up just in case we need them!!!

So after watering my wilting plants - and while Louis Dean was still sleeping - I hauled out the den coffee table to freshen it up with a new finish!

See that greenery growing there below the upper deck?

It's a dearly beloved WEED and I wish I could get seeds and plant it between all the stones on the patio!!!

I am a methodical housekeeper and cleaned the living room and kitchen before going on into the den.

I love candles!!! Even in the daytime!

The living room is Louis Dean's very favorite. 

It's a small intimate room full of our combined favorite things.

HIS dolls and doll cases, MY paintings and furnishings, OUR shared memories of hours sitting in here talking and sharing our stories about our lives together.

The kitchen - DONE!!!

I do love a clean house - and especially when the ENTIRE house is clean!!!

It was late afternoon before I was ready to tackle the den!

That was a bigger job than I had figured.

I started with the front half - what we see when we sit on the sofa.

It was a work in progress as we watched the season premier of Major Crimes.

While we enjoy that program - we sure do miss The Closer - our all time favorite program!

During the commercials I cleaned the back half.

We can now walk around and between the two sofas.

It took longer since we made a few changes in the traffic flow pattern.

So this is where I am blogging tonight! 

First time I've had my lap top out here since the end of April!

It's good to be back!!!

I missed the midnight mark but that's more normal than not!

Good night from the Chapmans!!!

Good night, Megan!!! I love you and  know you are still awake!!!

I secretly LOVE that you wait up for my journal post each night!!

I promise to try harder to post earlier!!