Our Saturday and Sunday........

I have a wall!!! At least a piece of a wall!

 The camper and the new room are being joined together at the seams!

I hung my first piece of decoration on it before we left Saturday afternoon.

The wall went up Saturday morning - after I had given up all hope.

The good food was Friday's night celebratory dinner!

Celebrating the brand new shiny red tractor!

Saturday we had our morning routine of coffee and reading minus the extra stupor time.

Louis Dean went out and put up the wall while I prepared the camper for us to go home.

I left the pantry full and made mental notes - of which I most assuredly will forget - of what staples we have on hand for when we return. Tuna, jams, soups, noodles, spices, chili, seasonings, pancake mix, syrup, oatmeal, Hamburger Helpers - they were on sale at Read's for 10 for $10! Coffee, tea, flavored water, Diet Coke, wine - we left our wine for when we get back. Box wine lasts a long time!

Louis Dean filled all our water bottles - the two gallon ones we keep for handy use - from the big 5 gallon bottles. The camper has clean sheets on the beds and the floors were vacuumed.

We closed the door at the north end where we park the truck and 'locked' it.

That means Louis Dean let me out and then he turned the board he has hammered up at an angle that will prevent the door from opening.

On our next trip down we will put in a regular locking door thingy.

It already has a door knob so I think that counts for something.

Dean had gone to work and Sherry was doing tractor stuff.

It was time to say our goodbyes......

It's always more fun to arrive in the country than it is to leave but we have some good things to look forward to. And Louis Dean was really tired. He needs to come home and rest his brain. 

We went the back roads and stopped in Hubbard at The Dairy Queen for an ice cream cone.

We sat out on the patio seating and admired this pretty house across the street while we ate our cones.

I'm grateful for my life and for the blessing of having a city home and a place in the country.

But that doesn't stop me from admiring and dreaming about what it would be like to have a place like this!

We got home around 5:00 Saturday afternoon after stopping in Hillsboro for some bakery items at the Country Czech Bakery and then at the Leggs Hanes Bali outlet for some unmentionables.

We have our return routine down pat. He unloads. I put up.

I started the laundry and opened the mail. 

Once the truck was empty, Louis Dean disappeared into the bathroom for an hour or more while he sat in a hot soaking bath. We rejoined in the den and watched a Bull before I took my shower and made a batch of fruitcake cookies.

The whole reason we came home early was those cookies.

Today we celebrated a very special lady's birthday at the Ridglea Country Club

I went from one type of country to another!

Beautiful Lily and her sweet granddaughter.......

Lily loves my Fruitcake Cookies so I knew that would be the perfect gift from us.

We drove over to Nita and Mike's and rode with them as I didn't have a phone so I could bot use my Waze direction helper.

I had no camera or phone but I did bring my iPad!

This is our dear Joni and her mother, Lily.

What a blessing Lily has been to so many and we are grateful to be a part of her life.

Lily was Nita's Mother-in-Love.......not mother in law .....for many years.

We are so grateful that we remain 'Family'.....

Leah ( Nita's beautiful daughter), Lily and Nita.

It was a wonderful time of celebrating! Lily is 93 years old and she told Louis Dean, 

"We will have to do this again when I am 100!"

Yes, we WILL!!!

We left Fort Worth and headed to Lowes to buy shrubs, bedding plants, mulch and potting soil.

We have some work to do to get ready for our Good Friday Gathering.

My next stop was at AT&T to get a new phone.

It didn't take long!

I am back in business!!!

However, I am going to be very careful with this one! 

At least for the next 30 months!!

Louis Dean took a glass of wine out this evening - after I gave him a really good hair cut! - and surveyed what we need to do over the next few days.

It felt good to sit out on the driveway and talk about the gardens and landscaping plans, menus for Good Friday and just chat a bit.

He said, "I love it when we do this."

So do I.

He got sleepy and came in and went to bed.

That's what men do.

I don't fault them for it.

Women - on the other hand - do what I have done since he went off to bed.

I finished the last load of laundry and folded and put up what stays here and packed up what goes to the camper. I prepared coffee for in the morning and then turned out all the thousand points of light that I keep in this house! I picked up this and that as I went through the rooms before settling down in here in the sewing room to finish this post which I started while he was soaking in the tub tonight....again.

So this is the first pic I took while we were sitting in the gazebo.......

and yet it made a video of it!

and so I just took this pic of my blogging spot tonight.......

and it made a video of it, too!!

Why??

I guess I need to figure out my new phone.........