A Sleepy Weekend and Muddy Roses.......

 I'll start off  tonight's journal entry with a photo from Friday night.

Louis Dean played his guitar and sang to me for a few minutes before we went to bed.

He loves playing and I am looking for someone for him to play with. Or perhaps a jam session in the Waco area that we could join. He misses having a group to play with so maybe there's one around here.

If you are local and know of any - please let me know!!

We were in bed before midnight on Friday and I slept until 11:15 Saturday morning.

By 3:00 I was back in the girl bunk and slept until 7:00, got up and did a blog post for Friday and went back to bed. I just can't seem to wake up and I stay sleepy all day long.

May be this country air!

I accomplished next to nothing as far as projects and housework go.

I didn't even cook a meal!

Thank goodness Louis Dean is happy with cheese, turkey, crackers and pickles for a late simple supper.

Of course we ate by the Dearborn heater!

Can you see Louis Dean's right eye?

He has some broken blood vessels in it and it's completely red.

Not sure if he got something in it and rubbed it or what.

Then I got to thinking that he went to an eye doctor who prescribed drops to use twice a day to treat the elevated pressue in his eyes due to diabetes. I dropped the ball in monitoring him.

I found the third vial of drops in my medicine bag we brought with us so now I am going to be militant in seeing that he takes his medicine AND drops!!

I slept so well last night whileLouis Dean was restless.

He was up at 2:30 fixing a baked potato.....the smell woke me up but as good as it smelled, I stayed in bed.

Sunday morning coffee and watching Fellowship Church online.

Pastor Ed started a new series on prophecy.

It takes us two years to read through the Bible and we are now in the first few chapters of Revelation!

I made a big country breakfast for Sunday lunch today!

If the wind hadn't been blowing, I would have used the burner on our grill to fry up the potatoes and eggs. It's slow going when you cook on a hotplate!

I bought this jar of jam at the Farm and Home store on Friday and it is seriously good!

The lime green colored jam is jalapeno also!

The horses came up to pay me a visit this afternoon.

I just so happened to have sugar cubes for them....and a few table scraps.

This one was literally licking his lips with those sugar cubes!

Louis Dean says the Samantha is the prettiest cat he's ever seen and throughout the day he says, "Linda, you need to take a picture of this!"

I still do not have water in the camper so I am at the bathroom sink a lot these days doing dishes.

It's a laundry sink so it's plenty big enough and I love the view from the window.

This is where I hung the string of honeybee lights a friend sent me last year.

They are solar and turn off and on automatically.

I love seeing them twinkle on at night!

Louis Dean planted roses today. 

2 yesterday and 7 today.

We already had three rose bushes in my little garden to the left of the bathroom window.

I had planted a trumpet vine up in one corner of the garden and some perennial bsushes that flower along the fence line. Honeysuckle and a couple of others purchased so they would get established and climb on the fence. I pointed them out to Louis Dean and said to leave them alone! They will come back and I broke off a piece to show him there was green and life in that plant.

When I went outside to check on him - he had plowed up the entire small garden that is supposed to be MY flower and herb garden.

I could not believe it! 

I had to talk to myself and to God before I could talk to HIM!

And I did not say much but he knew I was upset.

He proceeded to plant the rose bushes.

I went inside and scrubbed the bathroom floor as therapy.

I say SCRUB because he had dripped some huge gray colored drops all the way across the room from his shop door to the other door and probably across the red and white rug as well. I couldn't bring myself to look at the rug just yet.

Then I went back outside - now calmer and looked at the garden.

I had told him to give me the wrappers the bushes came in as I am keeping the cards that tell about each rose in my gardening notebook.

Alas, I nearly cried.

He had put a wrapper beside each plant and then dumped a shovel of dirt on top of it.

WHY???? Why in heaven's name would he DO that??

I asked him to get the wrappers and I went back inside where I vacuumed the dickens of of the front room.

Then I went back outside......muddy wrappers all still there.

SO I got them myself!!!

He had made a huge mud garden!!!!

I accidently stepped into a deep hole and it took all my strength to get my foot out!

My cute honeybee socks were now filthy and my nice gray sweat pants muddy.

I rinsed the wrappers off and pulled the picture cards out, wiped those off and put them in my notebook.

Then I stomped myself BACK in and took a hot shower!

I used up every single bit of NICE that I had today and am now looking forward to getting a fresh load in the morning. Another work for NICE is GRACE and I am asking God for a larger portion of it!