Thursday and Friday

Yesterday I drove over to Hurst, Texas to pick up my Bernina sewing machine.

Apparently it was sicker than I thought and it cost over $300 to repair and clean it - but that's much cheaper than buying a new one. As I was leaving, I noticed a Calloway's Nursery right next door.

Oh, MY!! It thrilled my heart to see such fall colors!

I love the way they decorate!

While the back pond area is not really ready for plants - 

I bought some anyway.

And ONE pumpkin!

My herb garden had dried up except for the sage.

I bought some lemon verbena, trailing rosemary, Italian parsley, thyme, and a few other things.

When I left Calloway's, I saw a Lowe's and ran in there and bought some more plants.

I probably should have gone to Walmart!

A friend posted on Facebook her haul and it was magnificent!

She said the prices were so good! Traditional pumpkins were just $3 and the ornamental ones were $5.88. I need to make a trip to Walmart!!!

When Louis Dean and I were having our coffee and I was reading the Bible earlier that morning - I suddenly remembered he had an appointment for 1:15 to do am AB1 test (Ankle-Brachial Index) at his cardiologist's office.

I looked at the clock and it was nearly noon!

SO glad I remembered it in time!

He went off and that's when I left to go get my sewing machine.

We arrived home about the same time.

Since it's still hot in Texas and too hot to work in the sun - we both took naps!

Then I went out in the back and started working.

The once green jungle of ivy, Asian Jasmine and other ground cover is all brown, dead and trampled.

The awful Seven Sister wanna be rose bush has been cut back and Louis Dean intends to dig it up.

We worked until we couldn't work anymore.

He and I had hung up mosquito netting screens around three sides of the gazebo and I turned a fan on us and we sat in there catching our breath.

We thought we had replacement rain curtains and netting - but we didn't.

Brenda gave us the ones they had some time back since they never used them and I am so glad she did! He's going to get the rain curtains we had and we will see if they are still usable or if I need to order more. We did find another canopy replacement! Not sure why we bought two of them!

Sherry drove up from the ranch Thursday night to spend the night since she had to go into the office here in Irving this morning. We sat in the gazebo for a little while and she helped Louis Dean take the trash out. I had filled two of those great big sturdy black trash bags full!!

We went to bed early for us. I got up in the middle of the night unable to go back to sleep so I poured me a small glass of wine and was sitting in the living room when Sherry woke up and came in.

We visited and after awhile - Louis Dean came in.

I just love it when we have someone in the guest room!

I had looked up at the clock when it was 4:00 in the morning and the words to that song hit my brain!!!

Louis Dean just about ran that song in the ground with me!!

Sherry and I laughed when I told her about it and then when Louis Dean came in we thought it was perfect timing!

Sherry and I went back to bed at 4:30 and Louis Dean stayed up and cleaned his music room!

He sacked up a big bag of trash and got it to the curb in time for pick up.

Of course he had to take a nap later!

Yesterday he was stopped by the police because he did not have mud flaps on his truck.

The officer asked him if he knew it was against the law not to have them and he had no idea it was.

Must be because it's a dually truck.

It's funny about that, though, because we have been married 14 years and the first Christmas together, I bought a set of mud flaps for his truck.

He never put them on. They were still in the package and they were not cheap when I bought them!

The only thing was - he couldn't find them.

I was working in the front flower beds and pruning around the Rosemary bush when yellow jacket stung me. He went to look for the wasp spray - and found the mudflaps!!

So today he decided he would have someone put them on and fix his muffler.

He came home - and Sherry had stopped back by before leaving Irving - and announced it would cost $800!!! He decided he can do it after all.

I made us a good late lunch today.

You know why?

I forgot to feed Louis Dean yesterday!

He bought a bag of cheese puffs and ate those in the late afternoon and then finished off his goulash last night. I felt so bad about that.

I tried to make up for it today!

Once again I have been out in the back pond area trying to clean it up before he does the actual cleaning of the pond. Today I filled THREE big bags!

We are making progress but there's still so much to do and we try to pace ourselves.

This day is done and later tonight we will be going out to howl at the full moon.

But right now I am fixing some more food to feed Louis Dean and we're going to finish the movie we started this afternoon.

He's figured out I will watch westerns with him if they have Tom Selleck or Sam Elliot in it!

It is so hard to see Mark Hamon playing a bad guy!