Tuesday Treasures!

 These first days of January have been slow ones.

I feel like I have lazed about much as the kittens do!

Samantha really knows how to relax!

I've decided to keep new red bedspread along with a few other accents of red in the bedroom until February.

I went ahead and changed out the dining room table and am slowly starting to pack other Christmas away. But I'm not doing it in a frenzy like my hair is on fire!

I didn't even leave the house on Monday but I did get dressed - including make up and hair.

Today I needed to go to the post office to mail one last box to Summer in Puerto Rico.

I had a few other errands to do and asked Louis Dean is he wanted to run around with me.

He said, "No, I'll just stay here if you don't mind."

There was a line at the post office so I was waiting when my phone rang.

It was Louis Dean!

"Is it too late for me to go with you? Can you swing back by and pick me up?"

Of course I could!! He was waiting on the front porch!

Turns out he decided he wanted to spend time with me instead of simply staying home.

He said, "It's easy to get in a rut and just stay home. Months could go y where we don't DO things together and I do NOT want that to happen to us!"

This is January 5th - but that was a Valentine to me!

I love that I am married to an 84 year old man that is still a romantic!

So we went to the Dollar Store in search of a calendar. He stayed in the car  while I went in and picked up a few things - but they were all sold out of calendars!

So I stopped at Walgreens and ran in. No calendars there, either!

Next stop - Goodwill. I made a deposit (donation of stuff in my trunk) before going in to mahe a withdrawal.

Best thing was this brand new camping cot for $15!

I just may want to sleep under the stars at the ranch!

I bought this basket to use both as storage as well as a footstool at the camper/cabin.

It came with two champagne flutes, two white plates and cutlery.

Perfect for a moonlit night under the stars!

I'm listening to this classical CD as I am writing tonight.

A Kool-Aid pitcher!!!

I love that it's acrylic!

I had a glass one and it didn't last long.

We went to the bank - and we are 'old school' and I deposit my monthly household check from Louis Dean the old fashioned way......at the bank.

Then I ran in at Aldi for some things and we came home.

While Louis Dean stayed in the car for all the stops except Goodwill, we still visited along the way and he said he was glad he went.

I've been working on another denim quilt - this time for great granddaughter Kaitlyn!

The next one I make will be for Chandy and I hope we can deliver them early this spring.

Louis Dean found Tabitha hanging out hammock style from a bag I keep on the closet doorknob in the guest room. He called me to grab my camera and she just held her pose until I got there!

I'm so glad we have kitties!

Tonight we had a campfire!

He is still buring up big chunks of our old elm tree

and hopes to clear out the area where it has been piled up.

It was beautiful day here and the evening was so mild we sat out on our new deck to watch the fire.

These are happy days for us and I do not take them for granted.

My knight in shining armor!
Or overalls and a heavy white robe!

Same thing!