We are Back in the Country!

 We took Thursday to prepare to leave and, unfortunately, Louis Dean did not sleep well so we were off to a late and slow start on Friday. We have had to delay coming back to the ranch since October! The rain caused us to miss our scheduled return and then our November visit has been pushed back a tine or two. We were determined to leave and so we did......albeit late.
It was 4:00 when we got on the road after stopping at Walgreen's to pick up a couple of my prescriptions. Not all older people have to take as much medicine as we do - but we are thankful that we have what we need to keep going. I wonder how crippled up I would be without my Celebrex.

I fixed us a good lunch of salad and baked potaoes before we left home.

I have been counting my calories and Thursday I did not pay enough attention to Louis Dean in making sure he ate. Turns out - it was night and he had not eaten anything all day long! I went in the kitchen and he was thawing out some frozen spaghetti while heating up a can of sauce and cooking some bacon 'for flavor' he said. He ate it and when I asked if it was good, he said, "No, but at least I'm not hungry now." Shame on me!!! SO I was sure to feed him before we left AND I even served him a toasted bagel with cream cheese that morning.

We made it down to the ranch with only mild stress. Waze directed us around a major accident as we neared Bellmead. By then it was dark. And neither one of us see well in the dark.

Still, we shopped HEB by dividing and conquering and arrived at the ranch by 8:00.

We unloaded what we needed - the groceries and personal bags - and within an hour or so we had a campfire going.

It may have been two hours......

nothing is ever easy!

Our 'AH' moment!

We are HERE!!!!

Feet up and all relaxed!

I love everything there is about being here at the ranch!

We get to be a part of Dean and Sherry's life and a part of country living.

I slept like a baby Friday night.

Louis Dean did not. I don't have any idea why he sleeps or does not sleep.

He was up early but I wasn't.

Breakfast was closer to lunch time.

But he was a happy camper!

LOOK!! The wildflowers I planted last month are coming up!

They are all perennials so I am hoping for a big show in the spring!!

I gathered all these peppers from my little pond garden!

Enough for pepper poppers tomorrow for Louis Dean's 84th birthday celebration!

Since he didn't sleep well, a nap was in order for him while I made a run into Mart for some things.

There was a good bit of 'traffic' for the country.

I met 6 trucks on my way into town.

This is on Happy Hollow Road which leads straight up to Texas Drive and the Dollar Store.

I thought this was such as beautiful picture.

So many abandoned homes were on this road and several have beed torn down and new homes built in their place. This one has a story to tell but I will never know what it was.

I hope our Country Home will not be abandoned one day.

But if it happens, I hope people will think happy lives lived here.

Since we are on Dean and Sherry's ranch, no one will see it until maybe after even they are long gone.

I have spent all afternoon and evening decorating the cabin for Christmas.

Louis Dean dearly loves the LED lights!

I think this may be the very first time I have really decorated here.

I think I put colored lights up three years ago when we first added the front room.

I love looking in through a window - or a screen door.

I bought some things from the Dollar store this afternoon to finish out my decorating.

This wreath came from home, though and I already had the truck sign.

The snowflake lights are new.

I bought them after Christmas last year.

LOVE this $6 Santa hanging between the windows.

It's 11:26 as I am closing out this journal entry tonight.

Tomorrow we will be celebrating Louis Dean's birtthday - even though it is actually on Monday!

Happy 84th Birthday to Louis Dean!!

You makes 'old' look really good!!