Monday Things and Tuesday!

I love a fresh haircut!

My hairdresser, Yulisa, is so good!

My hair has been thinning for a few years now and I have tried different ways to make it look fuller.

A good haircut works best. Amber gave me some dry shampoo that is a big help. I bought a couple of wiglets and wore them last year. That worked, too.

I like it a little fuller on top since that gives me more hair to fluff over the thin area.

But I can't stand hair on my neck!

Even when I had long hair back in my younger years, I most always had it twisted up in a French braid or a pony tail.

After I left the beauty shop, I went to my second physical therapy session.

I met a lady in the waiting room who is older like I am and she had such a pretty hairstyle!

It was short in the back and parted on the side and the sides swung down around her face.

She said her hair was thinning also and that she didn't use any products other than a blow dryer.

No brush. She just blow dries it and kind of fixes it and then lightly blows it again.

It certainly worked for her because she looked like she just came out of the salon!

My therapist said I am doing very well.

My knee is pretty much straight now. I'm just building up strength in it now.

However, I overdid it on the exercises and ended up with my knee hurting the rest of the afternoon and evening......more than it's hurt in weeks!

Note to self - don't try to be an overachiever.

I came home and took a nap before getting back to my housework.

Louis Dean helped me clean out the refrigerator. It is so tall and the shelves are so deep I can't reach them all. I do so admire a clean fridge but I seldom have one myself.

Ours is usully full of jar after jar of different preserves and all sorts of bottles.

I bought a bottle of fish sauce for a recipe last year. A whole bottle and it called for one teaspoon!

I went to bed early and got up early this morning.

As in 7:30!

I took my coffee out and toured the flower beds in the front and back yard.

It's exciting to see signs of spring.

I cut and packaged a bag of rosemary, parsley and mint to take with us to the ranch.

Louis Dean slept later than I did and when he staggered down the hall he said, "I think I'm getting sick!" I told him I was sorry I gave him what I had and he said, "You didn't GIVE it to me, Honey! I TOOK it!"

We debated for a minute or two whether to go to the ranch but he decided he could feel bad anywhere.

Plus after he had a cup of coffee and some stupor time - he felt a lot better!

He had loaded the truck Monday so all we had to do was close up the house and get our bags in and we were ready to go.

On our way home from the ranch last time, we noticed a Mexican restaurant and made mention we would eat there on our way down this trip. Except we couldn't remember if it was an El Chico or an El Fenix or if it was on Interstate 20 or 35!

So we opted to stop at Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen just to make sure we ate before we got too far down the road.

It's a tradition that I get a frozen margarita and it was a good one!

We didn't get our Mexican food but we did spy the El Chico just a little ways down the road.

It's on I35 in De Soto, Texas!

Next time!

While we planned on driving on to Belmead and shopping the HEB there, Louis Dean was fretting about the traffic so I suggested we get off the Interstate at Milford and come in on the back roads.

Much better!!

I ran into Read's Grocery on Texas Avenue and picked up milk and bread and such.

I noticed they had pork roast for $1.29 a pound and had just put one in my buggy when my phone rang. It was Dean wondering where we were.....and when I said Read's....he mentioned the pork roast were on sale so I picked up a couple for him. Win! WIN!!

We arrived and unloaded before dark and before the rain had settled in.

It had just begin to fall as we shut the truck up.

Dean came down after he finished the critter chores and visited with us for a few minutes.

They have new baby chicks!

Americanas and Bantys

These are Dean's photos he posted earlier today on his At the Ranch page on Facebook.

It's only 8:45 and we are snug as a bug in the camper/cabin. 

The Dearborn heater is running in the bathroom out in the cabin part and the electric heater Summer gave us is on in the camper.

I guess you could call us country bumpkins.......

we sat in the bathroom in front of the heater to have our evening glass of wine tonight!

Works for me!!