Our Labor Free Labor Day!!

 This was a FUN day with next to NO labor involved!

We joined Amber and the kids at Hawaiian Falls for their final day of the 2021 season.

This was Granddad's first, last and only visit to the water park this year.

We went all out and bought food from the concession stands - pulled pork sandwich with fries for me and a messy but delicious chili dog for Louis Dean. 

We had a lot of fun!

Louis Dean and I spent a good amount of time in the Lazy River and we even went in the kiddie area and stood under the giant bucket that dropped water on our heads - twice! 

I went in the wave pool while he rested on the lounger and then we all got snowcones.

Asked what flavor he wanted, he said, "A blue one!"

BUT, he never got around to riding one of the slides with me. That's okay, Trystan invited me to ride with her and then she and I went back in the Lazy River for another round or two.

While Trystan and I were in line for the slide, she said, "I think Granddad is in a really good mood today!" She was right.

It was a really good day!

So good that we closed the park down!

That big screen was entertainig throughout the afternoon with music videos and lots of Hawaiian music and scenery. So much so that Louis Dean and I are thinking of going to Hawaii in a couple of years.

I've been there several times but he has not.

As a matter of fact, as he and I relaxed on the loungers, we planned our next several vacations.

We already have plans to go to a dude ranch in Arkansas next month - and we are SO looking forward to that! Rayne, Sabrina and Summer will be there, too!

Next September or October, we will tour the New England area for the fall folliage. Once again, I have done this before but he hasn't. 

Then in 2023 when I turn 75, we are planning on renting a beach house in Galveston for a week.....or going to Hawaii.

I'm thinking our last  big vacation was the Alaskan cruise and cross country road trip home.

If we don't plan it - we will never do it! And we need to go places and see things while we can!

It was 7:00 when we got home this evening and we each did a little bit of 'doing.'

He's repairing an outlet in the front yard and I puttered in the den for an hour or so.

Together we watched this movie.....

I had turned the TV on to watch a recorded program and this was on.

Thinking that since it was a western.....and one I might actually enjoy.......I paused it so we could watch it together. We were over halfway through it when Louis Dean asked, "Do you really want to watch this?" Of course, I did! And we finished the movie but the problem was, he couldn't follow it.

I think he must have missed a few critical moments because he never figured out some of the key plots.

It was more than a notch or two UP from Gunsmoke!

Since we were not really laboring today, we then watched a Closer and I started on tonight's journal entry. I can multi task!

The kitchen has been clean and decorated for quite awhile now and it happened that it was still clean tonight! Or mostly so.....

I got rid of the long rugs I had in there.....too many floods and I just didn't want them anymore.

I think I would like one oval rug in front of the stove, though, so I am going to be looking for that.

I love my new counter tops but I still keep them covered in debris. 

I'm not hiding anything, though. I find I use all my pretty fall dishes more when I see them there on the counter.

I depend on this planner area to keep up with schedules, appointments and my to do list!

I love seeing all my pretty things!

Table for two!

The laundry room is not as over decorated as it was the last couple of years.

Maybe I am scaling back a tiny bit!

Or loading up other areas instead.

I love the big magnets that cover the dishwasher.

I took two down to the ranch last visit and put one on the fridge front and the other on the side.

I don't normally use paper plates but I found these pretty ones at the Dollar store in Mart.

Of the 30 September morns.....I still have 23 more!

While I love everything about FAll......

 I love September most of all!