Another Beautiful Country Day...and My Magnolia Buys!

Since I have more of a Goodwill budget, I did not expect to find any bargains at Magnolia!

While I am blessed with thrift store treasures, Amber is gifted at finding clearance and sales and can sniff them out anywhere! Magnolia was no exception!

I saw Trystan carrying a pretty little heavy glass vase and asked to see the price. $12!

I went off to find one for myself!

Then Amber found a table loaded with some really good buys!

I grabbed one of these!

So many ways to use it......

But for now, I turned it upside down and set my little forever up tree on it.

One thing led to another and I like the way it turned out.

I decorated the tree with bolls of cotton I picked last fall along with burlap wired ribbon and a package of jute from the Dollar Store in Mart.

Today was a beautiful day!

However I spent much of it inside the camper resting and napping.

In between rests, I did a little housework - but not much.

I cleaned the teeny tiny bathroom from top to bottom and hung up a shower rod across the middle of the area above the teeny tiny bathtub to hang my clothes on. The tub area has been what I use for my 'closet' when we are down here. When we were at the RV park in Katy, back in the Baby Quad Days, we were steps away from the nice big shower house. Then when we first came down here, we used the shower house they had built for the karate camps they had. Of late, we have been using the shower in their house. Well, Monday night I hauled all my clothes out of the tub, gave it a good scrub and Amber gave the kids baths in it! It's a tiny little thing - Louis Dean says it's like taking a bath in a thimble - but it did the job! Amber took one, too and after they went to bed in the tent - I took one, too! But tonight, I went up to the house while Dean and Sherry were teaching their Karate class in Waco and took a good long hot shower!

I stopped to feed the chickens on my way back to the camper.

They are entertaining!

The coyotes got into the duck pen last night and they got about four ducks.

I noticed this evening they had put them in a tall sturdy chicken coop until they can figure out how to better keep them secure at night. I can hear the coyotes howling as I am writing.....

This tree has bedded out practically right before our very eyes!

My favorite time of day is the short few minutes when the daylight is starting to slip away and the night is quietly tip toeing in.

I sat up on the deck painting my nails and watched Louis Dean work.

He's had a tough time of it the last few weeks.

He is over the flu but still trying to regain his stamina. It frustrates him that he can't do everything he wants to and his asthma really has kept him down. The wind on Sunday did a number on him!

He has been working on the bathroom - the toilet! Still a work in progress and he needed a part so he went to Waco this afternoon and got turned around when he came out of Home Depot. He said he like to never have figured out where he was! Neither one of us has any sense of direction but together we do better than on our own. I wished I had gone with him but I was so tired all I wanted to do was take a nap.

I was happy he perked up some tonight and made a good fire.

The wind is returning tomorrow! I'm hoping to keep Louis Dean inside the camper with the doors and windows shut so his asthma won't flare up again. It's just now getting under control.

He can play his music and perhaps we will watch some old movies.

I've been having fun seeing all the things people are doing on Spring Break this week!

 My sister, Deanie, always takes her Andie somewhere.

They just got home this afternoon and I love all the photos she took.

My siblings and I keep a message thread going and it has been silent while all of us were busy doing adventures. 

Deanie started the thread up again tonight and I asked if I could share the pics on my blog tonight. She and Andie have such a special relationship. I've learned a lot about being a grandmother from Deanie!

Isn't Andie adorable??

They stayed pretty close to home this time.

I LOVE this pic! It's my favorite!

They did a day in Granbury and then headed to Sun Dance Square where they stayed in a brand new hotel!

I'm sure Deanie loved being in a CLEAN one after staying in a not so nice one in Galveston on our sibling trip! I bet that won't ever happen again!

Andie is a Cuitie Pie and loaded with Personality!!

Andie always asked her MiMi - "Did you ask for two beds and a room with a nice view?"

Deanie always does!

This was Andie's view.

They are safely back home tonight.

I'm glad when my loved ones go and return safe.

It was two hours ago when I took this pic of my blogging spot tonight.

I have gone out to sit by the fire and chat with Louis Dean a few times.

That's where I'm going now....

Goodnight from the Country!!