Painting Cows on Wednesdayand Rayne and Summer Visited on Thursday!

We started the project of adding a front room to the camper making it a camper/cabin back in April of 2017. I innocently thought that adding a full size working bathroom complete with a large shower, deep laundry sink, normal toilet would be a top priority. It made perfect sense to me. I forged ahead and we bought said shower, laundry sink and hot water heater. We already had the toilet. We have had them nearly 18 months. Sitting there. Alas, I was slow coming to the realization that Louis Dean is not anywhere nearly as confident when it comes to plumbing as he is to just about any other project in our world of adding a cabin to the camper. However, he finally came to terms with his fears and insecurities. Come to find out - he was petrified to cut a hole into the fiberglass shower we bought.

Never mind that I know with a certainty that he could have even fixed that - if he had cut it wrong and it came to that. Praise God he finally faced up to it all and we had a nice talk and Lo, and BEHOLD.........progress is being made even as I type this on getting a working bathroom here!!

Now, I have had all along a working 'ladies' bathroom. And he has had a men's bathroom with working toilet. But I wanted MORE!! A shower! A sink!!!

Ladies and gentlemen........it is now a working project!!!

It won't be completely done until we get a master electrician out here but we even have a plan for that. In the meantime - that's what Louis Dean is working on......a bathroom!!!

Wednesday morning I did not get up until 11:00 and then I went back to bed at 2:00 for a long nap and reading. I have been in Ireland and England during the 1950's to 1962. It's hard to close a book after reading the final page and return to this present time. Kind of a culture shock. 

But it's read and done and now I'm MOOING on......

By the way - if anyone would like to read this book , I will be happy to pass it along.

I've been painting cows. Lots of them! And having a good time doing so!

We closed Wednesday night out listening to Willie Nelson music on our Echo.....aka Alexa.

I went to bed early on purpose because I wanted to get up early. Or at least at a more normal time.

Company was coming and I wanted to be ready!

Alas, I woke up at 5:00 to the sound of hammering.

I went out to the front room and found Louis Dean in his workshop working!!!

He said he woke up at 3:30 and decided to get up and do something.

Since he was okay - I went back to bed until 6:30 when I checked on him again.

He wasn't anywhere in the front room, the camper or the truck.

I found him across the road in the garden weeding with a hoe.

We had been over there Wednesday evening watering and planting and he noticed it needed some weeding. Good Grief! I went back to bed until a decent time - 8:30 - and got up and made him a second pot of coffee and started our day. Or my day. He had started his long hours ago!

Summer and Rayne arrived in Summer's new van!!!

I love it and wish I had one just like it!!!!

They came bearing gifts!

Shipley's glazed donuts!

Louis Dean's favorite!

Rayne and I took a tour of the ranch.

Her first choice was to feed the horses!

Carrots and sugar cubes.

She loves the horses and they love her!

She loves any and all 'critters.'

This one held back and never came to the party until all the food was gone.

These two ate it all.

No worries......I will feed the other one extra tomorrow.

Rayne and I did all sorts of country things.

We fed the horses and picked a bouquet of wild flowers to take to her Aunt Sherry in Rowlett.

We checked out the garden patch up here by the camper. Lots of green tomatoes and a few sweet peppers.

We walked on down the road to check out Dean and Sherry's garden......

this is right outside the peacock pen. I told Rayne to count the peacocks - she counted one peacock and one peahen inside the pen. I said, "Keep looking!"

This is the wild peacock that hangs around here.

We watched him fly over the garden fence!

Then we walked down to see the baby goats.......

......and the pups! 

Two Great Pyrenees.

Remmie and Rugar.

The baby goats were her favorite!

It's beautiful down here.

The black eyed Susan's are everywhere.

They weren't here last year.

I guess you get new wildflowers every year.

I heard my first locust of the season!

June 13th, 2019 at 11:30!

The dogs heard it, too!

Then we walked up to Lake Toguchi.

The ducks are so pretty.

I have a new painting to start tonight of them.

We came back to the camper and I made us a big pasta salad with just about everything you can think of in it! Olives, carrots, celery, sweet peppers, tomatoes, roasted chicken, bacon......you name it - it was probably in there!

And I made pepper poppers with Rayne's help.

By the way......I took the seeds and membranes out and they were still HOT!!!

Asparagus with butter.....

After lunch Summer and Rayne played games and then we all did a crafting project.

Summer and I each had a needlework and Rayne traced off my duck pond painting to canvas.

All too soon it was time for them to go back to town.

It was a WONDERFUL visit!!!

I do so love my Rayne Roo!

We will be seeing her again next week!!!