Gentle Country Days......Wednesday and Thursday

We have been here at the ranch long enough this time to feel like we actually live here.

Which we do. Part time.

I don't think the newness of that will ever wear off.

I tend to stay inside the camper during the heat of the day reading and puttering with one thing or another. After 4:00 the sun has gone behind the camper and I come out and do art in the front room.

 The Golden Hour doesn't arrive for some time later but we try to always be out there to see it.

I do our cooking in the front room using the hot plate, toaster oven and microwave.

Not that I cook every day.

Last night we had a chicken and pasta dish with veggies, a simple salad and garlic toast.

Slightly burned as is my tradition.

I nearly always burn the garlic toast.

We ate outside at the picnic table.

No flies!

I've seen maybe a dozen in all the days we've been here this time.

Mr. Jackson doesn't have as many cows over in his pasture....aka our front yard.

Perhaps that's why.

Dean and Sherry were in Waco (Dean teaches Karate on Wednesday evenings) so we went down to feed the goats all our table scraps.

They had put the goats up before they left so all we had to do was say hello.....

and pour the food out.

This was my art for Wednesday.

I had based him in last month and finished him up.

He's the owl that got in the hen house and ate up 5 chickens.

No twinkle in this bad boy's eyes!

This morning Louis Dean woke up early and was itching to get to town for some part he needed.

He was up and gone before 9:00. I spent some quiet time all alone and I loved it.

A little goes a long ways and I was happy when I heard the rumbling diesel backing in at the drive.

Louis Dean is such an excellent husband.

Anything I need, he tries his best to supply.

I asked him about a light over my art table since it's too hot to paint in the bright natural sunlight of the day. That works great during the year - except for the hot summer months. That being July and August this year but some years it can start in May. We have been blessed with a mild summer.

Instead of a big dinner, I decided to cook for lunch since I was out early enough to paint before the heat of the day. Louis Dean says he does not like pasta - but I've served it to him two days in a row and he ate it all up. Today was chicken Alfredo, fresh broccoli and cantaloupe. plus toasted garlic bread.

We are nearing the end of the book Gods and Generals so we started the movie while we ate.

Then we took nice long naps - or at least I did. He tries but he starts thinking about something and then pops out of bed and goes out to do it. Comes back in and lays down and then pops back up again. That's why I nap in the girl bunk.

I was out painting again at 7:00 this evening and finished my cute donkey!

The original artist is Joye DeGoede and is she ever talented!

I still have one more day to paint before I pack it all away.

We have a campfire tonight and have been listening to Alexa play songs by Ray Stevens.

He is such a funny man! 

We saw him in Branson the very last year he was there.

We are living the good life and I thank God for every single day.