A Short Trip tp the Ranch

 It's been a bit of a rain event here today.

Sherry flew into DFW this morning and her sister picked her up at the airport and brought her over to our house where we all had a cozy visit - and I say cozy because it had started to POUR down rain!

Sherry drove the truck and Louis Dean sat in the back seat so she and I could visit.

It was slow going for about half of the trip....raining so hard that my Waze direction app was telling us how many feet to 'flood' on the highway.

My brother Buster called while we were on the road and HE was driving in the rain, TOO!

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I grabbed this phot of him and his daughter from 2019 off of his Facebook page just because.

Every time I see a pic of him, it makes me smile so big!

Can't imagine how I will feel and act when I see him in person in 5 days!!

The rain let up and we even saw some blue sky here and there as we drove on to the ranch.

I'd say the flow has arrived and I know the bees are lapping that nectar up!

It was only light rain by this time, so I got my umbrella, pulled on my mudboots and went out to check the garden.

Look at that lettuce in the foreground by the pond!

Can you see me with my umbrella and boots back there?

My wildflower garden continues to grow taller!

I gathered the lettuces and peppers and pulled up one onion!

We're going to enjoy some good salads over the next few days!

When we came in the front room door, I spied gifts setting on the table.....

Grandson Robert had been down to visit his Uncle Dean and brought this amazing coffee cup for me....

as well as a nice bottle of wine.....the same kind as the very first bottle he brought as a hostess gift on his very first visit to the camper down here at the ranch.

He left this for his Granddad!

He loves it!

All too soon we had to turn around and come home.

Thankfully, the rain wasn't nearly as bad going as it was coming.

However........

I hated to have to tell Louis Dean that water had come in the house.

Mostly in the sewing room and that was the 3 feet along the wall next to the kitchen, from one side of the room to the other......but only 3 feet or so wide.

So I've been busy sucking up water since we got home!

Poor Louis Dean. The water came in right about where his newest sump pump is.

The deck - or part of it at any rate - will need to come up....again.

The 'stuff' of Life keeps happening and I guess that's what keeps us from ever being bored!