Home, Movies, Masks and Laundry!

Monday dawned and Louis Dean was up and out working on tapping down the fence posts.

He came in and told me, "Linda, I think I am beginning to feel some of my 83 years."

Then he wanted me to text Dean and ask him if he would come up and do the job.

And he was there just minutes later!

He spent the entire afternoon and into the evening.

Thank the Lord for family!

Dean and Sherry are always there for us!

While Dean worked and Louis Dean napped in the camper, I cooked potato soup.

I use Ma's recipe from On the Bright Side!

Except I added carrots, leftover cream cheese corn, onions, and mashed potatoes plus a package of fund raiser potato soup mix. And bacon. I'll never be able to duplicate this soup.

It.was.good. Seriously good.

We ate our fill along with homemade cornbread and then I froze the rest for us to have next week.

Fast forward to the wee hours of Tuesday morning.

I went on to bed in the girl bunk around 10:00.

Louis Dean stayed up. Remember, he had slept much of the day while his son worked on the fence posts. Around 1:00 in the morning - I heard a loud thump - that woke me up even though I was wearing ear plugs!

Come to find out later - Louis Dean had been unable to sleep so he got up and decided to defrost the little freezer!

However, the soup I had put in that freezer had not frozen solid yet .....and it was dumped out - every last bit of it - on the deck!

There is always something to be grateful for and I am thankful he took the freezer outside on the front deck to defrost it! Alas, I am still in mourning over losing all that soup!

Stormy weather was coming in on Tuesday night so we decided to leave early.

We came down to the ranch last Tuesday - a day early - to beat the storms - and now we left a day early for the same reason.

Once again, Dean was back up at 'our' place working on those fence posts!

I had no intention of leaving any earlier than I had to so I spent the day cleaning the camper and watching Justified.

I love this show!

The music. The characters. Everything.

We left the ranch around 5:30 yesterday and drove straight through to exit #405 which is a QT where Louis Dean filled up with diesel at a ridiculously low price - and I got to go to the bathroom!

We were home in our driveway by 7:30 and he unloaded as I put up.

Started the first of 5 loads of laundry and heated up some leftovers for our supper.

He took a long soaking hot bath and we went to bed early!

The stormy weather missed us and we only had rain and some high winds.

Dean said they got much the same at the ranch.

I had an appointment for my yearly check up on Thursday by way of Telehealth and that was the only reason we came home. My bloodwork was scheduled at a safe clinic for healthy people the very same day. I checked in online and filled out all the forms only to have them accepted - and then a new message popped up saying I would need to reschedule as the office would be open next week for regular visits. So I did. On the 12th of May.

Louis Dean got way too tired while we were at the ranch so he has napped a lot today and that's a good thing. He said he is afraid he is getting old and I told him, "Not yet!"

It just takes him longer to recover these days.

There's something to be said for pacing yourself and not over doing.

While he slept, I worked on making some more masks.

These are all children size.

A couple are for Rayne and one for Piercyn and the other four are for the quads.

The ones I made for them previously didn't fit.

I can fix them but made them some extras.

I love to see my friends wearing the masks I made for them!

Susie of She Junks and her Teddy Bear - which is what she calls her husband Ted- sent me this pic of them in their masks.

Ted has been on a health journey and thankfully is doing well.

It's taken a toll on both of them, however.

Plus they are without Wifi and she hasn't been able to communicate with the Blog Neighborhood in over a month. We have resorted to snail mail and text messages.

I have kept her letters and stapled them into my Country Diary.

Diane at NANA DIANA TAKES A BREAK   gave an update on Susie -Louis Dean and I call her Susie Q! I'm praying one of the young people in their family will be able to get them connected again with the Internet! Isolation can really be a problem and they need to know we are all here praying for and thinking of them!

I've been in the sewing room all evening cutting out and sewing face masks.

We go back to the ranch on Friday so I was in a hurry to get some more made.

To keep me company, I have watched or listened to a couple of good movies while stitching.....

Sheila Hancock was 84 years old when she made this film.

Amazing story and I loved every minute of it!

Another good movie!!!

I close tonight's journal entry with a pic of Mr. Jackson's cows as we left the ranch yesterday.

We will be back soon!!!