Our Country Tuesday and Wednesday! Catching Up!

Tuesday morning Louis Dean and I were sitting out in the front room having our coffee and reading time when he said, "Come over here and look, Linda! You need to get a picture of this!"

The reflection in the window looked as if the candle in the tin pail was sitting on a shelf in the freezer outside on the deck. I love that he thinks of things he knows I would like!

Our Little Henrietta stays so close to us that she is sporting some white paint on her feathers!

She has obviously been getting way too close to me painting the wall boards!

Tuesday evening I took a few carrots down and held them out to the horses and here they came!

Such pretty things!

We are loving our days and our nights down here!

We were closing up the front room and turning out the lights when Louis Dean said, "Come here, Linda! You must take a picture of this!"

Henrietta was on the third rung of the ladder propped up against the camper and roosting there for the night! Louis Dean said the moon was a sliver and Venus was shining and all was right in our world.

I agreed with him.

We sat out for a few more minutes and went to bed about 9:30.

That's why I didn't blog last night.

I was asleep.

This morning - Wednesday, April 18th - we had to go to town.

As in Waco town. We ran out of white paint yesterday and the can LD thought we had as an extra had been through the freezing temps of this past winter and was practically unusable.

Country scenes on our way to town.

We seldom see another vehicle on our way in.....

It's like we own the country!

Just before we came to this point, one other truck approached from the other direction.

Once we get to the paved roads, then we see other cars.

But it's miles and miles of gravel road before we get there.

And I never tire of these country scenes.

We did our chores and shopped Home Depot for paint and other supplies.

Louis Dean suggested lunch at Luby's and that was a Win! WIN!!

We ate so well that the one meal served us for all day.....until Louis Dean ate a big bowl of Cheerios before he went to bed tonight. I had a bowl of watermelon.

We got back to the ranch and I took another nap.....I took one yesterday about the same time as today.

While HE did what he does, I painted.

I took the pic of the hen on her nest of eggs back in January.

It is one of my favorite photos.

So I printed it off and am trying to paint it.

I based it in today and will add details and definition tomorrow.

I painted this back in 2002......not a happy year for me.

This is what it looks after I worked on it this afternoon.

I should have taken a before pic......

tomorrow I will work on the lady.

Another project I should have taken a before pic.....

This is one of Deanie's Santa collection.

She gave it to me after Christmas and said, "Make him look good!"

This was after one session.

I hope to finish him up tomorrow.

I have been feeling so creative down here this trip.

I need to bring my art every time I come.

I forgot about this one......she kind of reminds me of our Henrietta......

but it's from a photo of another bird down here that I took a picture of back in January.

In other news.....as in Family news.....as in Summer news......

Summer is still enjoying her time in Puerto Rico and being with Rayne and Sabrina.

She loves island and beach life.

This is her Happy Place.

Puerto Rico is bracing itself for a tropical storm - which is a concern for all the ones who went through Hurricane Maria......and that includes Summer, Sabrina and Rayne.

Summer ran errands all morning and then suddenly the power went out on the entire island.

This was not due to weather but something else.

The last I heard from Summer just a couple of hours ago was that the storm is approaching.

So I close before midnight with my news from the country and from afar.

It is amazing to me how different life is from one place to another. From one life to another.

From where I used to be in life to where I am now.

I suppose it is true that nothing - absolutely nothing - ever stays the same.

We are all in the process of becoming .......

just what we are becoming is very much up to us......