We are Home Again.....

Sunday I didn't get out of the girl bunk until nearly noon!

For some reason I simply did not want to get up - so I didn't.

Louis Dean brought my coffee in to me and I stayed in bed reading.

These super hot days of 100+ temps have been hard to handle.

I could get up early and enjoy the cooler part of the day - but we all know I'm not going to do that.

Still, I was able to paint for several hours out in the front room - with the windows open and a fan pointed at me - taking a nap during the hottest time of the day.

The only project I worked on was the Santa and Horse.

I'm happy with the horse and will let Santa dry and work on him some more.

I can tell better what I need to do by looking at a photo of it.

Santa's hand, face and the greenery are all still 'under construction.'

Last night Dean and Sherry drove up on their four wheeler and we did what Louis Dean loves to do more than just about anything. We sat on the porch and visited.

He often tells me of the wonderful times he and Ellen would visit Ruby Nell and Jerel (Ellen's parents) in Comanche, Texas. Louis Dean and Ellen were both school teachers and they would drive in from wherever they were teaching and sit around drinking coffee and talking.

So this was a perfect ending to our country visit last night.

We didn't need to hurry to leave the ranch this morning and it was already too hot to work fast.

We loaded the truck and then both of us took a little nap before we actually closed up the camper and left.

It's a lot more fun arriving than it is leaving.

Louis Dean swings the gate OUT as we leave.....

I personally prefer to see the gate swing IN as we arrive!

I used to open the lock and gate but my fingers are too knobby to do that anymore.

He's so cute!

On our way out from the country roads to the paved one - we saw THREE vehicles!

A regular traffic jam!

We had lunch at Luby's and Louis Dean really loaded his tray up with food!

Seeing this pic reminds me he bought TWO desserts!

That's pecan pie in the lower left hand corner.

He didn't eat it at lunch but I need to see if I can find where he put it.

Not that I would eat it myself but he certainly doesn't need pie!

He made short work of that huge meal!!

And he didn't have chicken fried steak this time! A hamburger steak instead.

We made good time getting home and did not even stop once since leaving Luby's in Waco.

Look what I found when I got home!!

My friend, Sharon, in Florida makes the most beautiful cards!!

She sent a birthday card to me - my very first and my birthday is not until the 24th!

Plus a box chock full of the prettiest Christmas cards I have ever seen.

I will take pictures tomorrow of them to 'show and tell.'

Remember Show and Tell from school?

I haven't thought about that in ages.

While I seldom had anything interesting to show and tell back then - I sure do now!

Louis Dean and I have a system.

He brings everything in and I put it all up.

He gets the ice out of the trays and bags it up while I make tea.

He goes through the mail while I start the laundry and turn the dishwasher on.

I always run the dishwasher before we leave since it has our coffee things and such in it and I don't think it's a good idea to leave dirty dishes. But then I run it again when we get home.

He took a hot soaking bath and I took a nice long shower and then we BOTH went to bed.

It was only 5:00!

I lingered longer than he did so I read in bed while he went out to the den to watch an old Audie Murphy movie.

This was such a good book.

Now I am going to close tonight's journal entry and take a new book to bed to start reading.

PS.....I found the pie in his music room! He had put it on his desk and set a clipboard on top of it.

I, in turn, hid it in the fridge! At the back of the vegetable drawer with a bag of cilantro in front of it.

Bet he'll never find it there!!