Middle of the Day Post!

It's noon instead of midnight as I write yesterday's journal entry.

I realize it was the 4th of July so I wore a patriotic dress in honor of the day.

We needed a Hollywood bed frame and I had a feeling we would find one at the DAV on Rock Island Road. 

And we did!!!!

(Only late last night we discovered they had paired the sets up wrong and we had two pieces that were for the same side. Louis Dean will need to go back up there and trade for the other one!)

I love the DAV and all their great antiques!

They are clearly marked 'FOR DISPLAY ONLY!'

It's a great place to browse through time even if you didn't want to shop.

But I did! Since it was the 4th - they had everything on sale for half price....

 $4 bought all of the above. The tea pot is BIA Cordon Bleu and made in Brazil.

I found this brand new game with a checker board on the back side of the Chinese Checker top and other games printed on the bottom of the box.  Game pieces all there in unopened packages.

$1!

It was HOT yesterday and we had a LOT to do - so we ate lunch out at a Chinese buffet.

Louis Dean dearly loves this place! This saved us time so we could get right back to work on the guest room when we got home.

I needed a mattress cover and pillows so we stopped at Tuesday Morning.

I got more than I came for - but they didn't have the covers I was looking for.

They did have a bottle of lavender, sage and rosemary seasoning for $2.99!

Alas, they only had one and when the clerk handed the bag to me - it dropped out and broke.

He said I could get another one and I settled for Rosemary and garlic.

One last stop at Target before heading home.

The quads are coming later this afternoon so I was buying hot dogs and buns and watermelon.

Not! They were sold out!! As in almost completely!

I ended up buying a more expensive package of bun length hot dogs and King Hawaiian buns.

We didn't have hot dogs on the 4th but we will eat them on the 5th!

Louis Dean and I always quote his beloved Ellen.......

".....as American as a half burned hot dog on the 4th of July."

He says there was more to it but this is all he remembers.

This ends the pretty part of Monday.

We came home and spend hours and hours trying to straighten that fool rug I bought!!

Louis Dean is a master mind at doing things......and even he couldn't get it right.

It is 10 feet long and 7' 7" wide. And the bunk bed is HEAVY.

He managed to use wood planks and PVC pipes and lift the furniture - both the stairwell and the end pieces OFF the floor and take the rug up - roll it up and then re roll it out. 

And STILL it's all bunched up at one end - just like it was when we started hours and hours before!

So we did the best we could and hope we can make the far right side settle down sooner or later!

THEN we discovered we couldn't use the bed frame and just put the mattress and box springs - which really aren't box springs - on the floor!

I started putting the room back together with the dreaded feeling of having to take that bottom part up again this weekend but - oh, well.

It was midnight before I had all the stuff we had carried out of the room back in there and made some sense of it. 

It's a tradition to watch Independence Day (the movie) every year.

It seems I don't have the original but I had Resurgence.

We sat down and watched the first part of it and 

then limped to bed because we were both so tired we could barely stand up!

The beauty about it all is that when you go to bed you get to wake up to a brand new day.

Last night I didn't think I would be able to walk because my ankles were hurting so bad.

I have arthritis and took Tylenol PM (hoping my liver didn't notice it!) before going to sleep and Wonders of Wonders!!! I woke up feeling much better.

I went back to the guest room to finish it up since the 'babies' will be here today.

This pic is from July 5th five years ago!

I discovered I have king size pillow shams that match the bedspread I bought Tuesday!

Now I just need to buy two king size pillows.

I'm thinking I can put all three girls on the bottom full size bed by placing them across the width!

Then Harrison can sleep on the top bunk - which needs a bit higher safety rail.

Not sure what Granddad's going to do about that!

I will close with this awesome pillow that came in the mail today from my friend, Dawn, in Florida!!!

It.made.my.day.

Thank you so MUCH!!!

Now I am off to shower and dress because company's coming and I have hot dogs to grill!!!