Dessert for Breakfast and Our Gazebo all Dressed Up!!

We have enjoyed the pound cake I made earlier this week and I have kept it in the fridge so it wouldn't spoil as we have been eating just a thin slice every day.

Today I cut up the last of it and served it for breakfast (at noon) with fresh fruit and whipped cream!

I cut some fresh herbs from my garden and put a few chicken breasts in the slow cooker.

Smelled like spring!

Louis Dean went to work 'peeling' pecans in the gazebo.

I don't let him do that in the house anymore!

Those shells go flying all  over the place.

While he worked out there -

I was working in the sewing room just across from him.

I had to drag the ironing board out again since my patriotic fabric was so wrinkled it made it too hard to cut out the masks without ironing it first.

I sewed these for my sister, Luann.

She came over to pick them up and we had a nice visit on the front porch - six feet away from each other. She brought me a Battenburg white lace coverlet she found at an estate sale!

It is beautiful! I'm thinking about using it for a tablecloth on the dining room table when I redo it on Monday.

Once Louis Dean had shelled all the pecans - he went out to the den to watch TV while I proceeded to blow out the gazebo and clean it all up!

I used all my patriotic decorations out here instead of scattering them through different rooms.

I like it!

It may be this 'war' on the Covid 19 virus, but it felt good to bring out all the red, white and blue.

I pitched some things and still have one tub of stuff I didn't use.

It's a comfy extra 'room' and we spend a lot of time out here.

It came up a shower in the late afternoon and all the honeysuckle scented the air.

I closed up two sides with the wind curtains just in case more rain comes.

It's fun to see things Amber and Benjamin made so long ago.

After it was all cleaned up, Louis Dean and I sat out here to visit while I turned the masks I had sewn inside out.

And since we skipped supper - we had banana splits for dessert!

I ended up putting the cooked chicken in the fridge so we will have a good meal tomorrow.

Then I went in and finished organizing my sewing basket full of  masks supplies.

I have another list to make tomorrow and then some for us and Dean and Sherry.

I need to get these done soon and then clean up the house and prepare to leave for the country.

I've been watching Home Fires while doing all this sewing and just finished the second and final season tonight. The story wasn't over but the show was cancelled. 

Simon Block is going to continue it, however, by writing four more novels.

I'm going to have to find something else to watch on my laptop for the next two days of sewing!

I have Amazon Prime so that's where I go to find things.

Good programs and good books aren't always easy to come by.

I close tonight's journal entry with this.......

May God bless America and help us as we find our way to a new normal......as least for a little while before this is all behind us.

Today was the worst day yet for Dallas County.

134 new cases reported with 5 deaths.

And they say we haven't peaked yet......

God will see us through this.