Hobby Lobby, A Hike and a Rescue - Our Monday and Tuesday

Texas is beginning to open up a little and I was more than ready to make a run into Hobby Lobby!

I have broken so many needles on the pony tail bands I use to make masks! Plus I was out of white, black and blue thread! While I  was there I bought a few art supplies and picked up a few Easter things at 80% off!

However, before I hit up Hobby Lobby, I was going to make a porch pickup of some denim a friend had been saving for me. So I turned Waze on and was surprised when she navigated me NOT on the county line road but go past it and on one narrow gravel road after another. I was thinking, perhaps the address where I am going is on a different side of Waco so maybe I'm going in a back way.

But no! I finally come out at Hwy 164 which leads me directly into Mart.....where I could have been a half hour earlier! On the bright side - I did see a really cute scare crow in a garden I passed!

I'm going to be making a couple for ours pretty soon.

As I came into Bellmead I saw I was really close to Home Depot and Louis Dean asked me to get some fence supplies. Husbands should not send their wives for things like this.

I couldn't find what he wanted even though I looked through the entire store and asked three different employees for help with each one sending me somewhere else.

Two frazzles in a row.

Going to town was not nearly as much fun as I had hoped it would be!

Thankfully, the directions to my friend's house were spot on and I loaded up with bags of denim jean and overalls!

Hobby Lobby was my last stop and I was back home in time to suit up and Sherry and I went to the bee hives to put a couple of frames in each of the new ones.

Now that the sandy loam soil has been delivered, Louis Dean has been working on his fence.

I love this picture of him showing off the clever way he engineered a contraption to hold his roll of barbed wire as he pulled it out.

He put a row of wire along the bottom of the fence and along the top.

Next he's going to be ready to put up the actual fencing.

While we worked, I whacked up denim!

The weather was much cooler today than the day before and it was perfect for setting up my cutting station on the picnic table. Right before we went to do the bees, a weird storm blew in and it rained and hailed for about 15 minutes and then disappeared!

Along with the denim was a whole bunch of critter shapes already cut out!

These will be great to embellish baby quilts with!

This is my mask collection of fabrics.

And this is my oldest son, Jesse, showing me he received the Dallas Cowboys one I made for him.

Blue has been coming up every day for a special treat!

Still haven't seen Rufus!

The four of us - Dean and Sherry and Louis Dean and myself - sat out and visited awhile.

That's something we really love about being down here - getting to hang out together.

This morning Louis Dean was back to work!

He was trimming up these trees.

It's good that he's been pacing himself and resting when he needs to.

He does love a project!

I took turns doing things in the camper - as in paying bills and ordering the third Blog Book from 2011. I had too many pages for just one book so I had to do it in quarters.

Then I would go out on the deck and cut up more denim and watch Louis Dean work.

Sherry had left her creamed potatoes here on Saturday so today I made potato soup - again.

I added cooked carrots and a can of peas - plus some rosemary and sharp grated cheese.

It was really good!

My art projects today......

A sweet friend gave me this camper flag and I have kept it on the front of the big refrigerator in the front room. I love this flag and the lady who gave it to me so today I freshed it up with a new paint!

It had faded a little and I want to keep it a long time!

I did the top half and will start with the pink camper color tomorrow and work my way down.

I also painted this small bee on a small canvas.

I patterned this off an apron I got for Christmas.

Look what Sherry brought down this afternoon!

Freshly picked blackberries!

SO good!!

The Golden Hour was upon us and I went for a hike to the back of the property.

I started out by heading down along the fence line.

Sometimes it looked like a trail of sorts where I suppose Sherry has had her tractor.

The wildflowers were beautiful and the birds were singing!

I walked a good ways and when I turned around, I couldn't see our place or Dean and Sherry's or anything but country.

See where the grass is kind of packed down?

That's the trails critters travel.

Critters as in coyotes......and others I have no idea of.

I was not brave enough to actually go into the thickets.

It was so different back down there. 

I turned and walked what I thought was the back of their property - but it actually goes beyond those trees.

So then I  traipsed on some more.

I knew there was a tank back in there somewhere and a creek beyond that.

I walked on from the tank and was probably foing the right direction except......

I got nervous that I couldn't find a way around without going through some dark trees.....

so I turned back....and then turned around and before I knew it - I was lost.

Louis Dean called me about that time and I said I would keep him on the phone until I found my way.

I walked around some more and he started to panic. The sun was setting and he doesn't have any better sense of direction than I do.

Bottom line - I called Dean.

He immediately got in the Durango and said, "I'm coming to get you. I WILL find you!"

And he did.

Come to find out - if I hadn't got scared and kept on walking - I would have been fine.

But I didn't know that.

I was very happy to see Dean and ride back up to the house!

We all sat on the deck and he told us stories of the times HE has been lost back there!

That made me feel better!

But some of his stories were scary so I am not going to go hiking by myself anymore.

It may not have been the smartest thing to do - going off alone - but I didn't want to be a little old lady that's afraid to do things. But next time I will take someone with me.

I took a nice hot shower and we ate cake topped with fruit and Cool Whip for supper!

And I was sure glad Dean rescued me.

He ran staight to the vehicle as soon as I called and didn't even put his shoes on!

I think that was adventure enough for me - but I'm still glad I did it! I just won't do it again. Alone.