A Slow Country Weekend......

 It's been a perfectly lovely weekend in the country. Slow and easy going.

I finally managed to finish chapter 16 and even did an outline for chapter 17 and then actually started writing it. I'm thinking if I just keep plugging away at it, I'll look up one day and find that I've written a book. My goal is to write every day. Even after we go home - and we will go home sooner or later - I'm going to to continue to write.

Saturday was cold wind and blue skies but muddy after Friday's rain.

Dean and Sherry aren't afraid of a little mud and they were hightailing it to town.

They did get stuck in the mud back down at the fork down by the new duck coop.

I saw Sherry hop out and go get her tractor - but Dean had managed to get the truck out of the muddy ditch and up on the road that runs in front of where we are. She parked the tractor on the driveway up here and off they went!

Louis Dean worked most of Saturday finishing that north wall.

I decided to surprise him with some Hot Wings to eat while we listened to the football game.

He used to go to Little Caesar's and get three different kinds for game day.

I remembered he liked them hot and spicy!

I had brought a big bag of frozen wings with us when we came down so I seasoned all of them with salt and pepper and browned them on both sides in oil.

I had a dozen wings so I used just BBQ sauce of four of them.

Hot chili jam on four and a jar of Cran-Razz sauce on the other four.

Then I turned the electric skillet down real low and cooked them for a couple of hours.

They were delicious!

I roasted some potatoes and carrots with a drizzle of oil on them and Slap Yo Mama seasoning.

We tuned in to the radio station for the pregame show and then settled down to listen to a rather exciting and finally disappointing football game.

We turned off the radio and turned out the lights......our party was over!

Sunday has been what I often think Sundays should be - a day of rest.

We had our coffee and devotional and breakfast - and then went back to bed.

Louis Dean slept for hours.

He's been working steady since we've been here and I think he truly needed some extra rest.

I didn't want to wake him up by washing dishes or making a lot of noise so I went out to the front room and cut up the rest of my denim.

I have a lot of quilt squares ready to sew now!

Instead of whacking up this pair of denim overalls that I used to wear back in the 1990's, 

I decided to cut across the bottom and I'm going to try my hand at sewing this to a shirt top or a t-shirt and then adding some printed fabric to the back and then lace layers at the bottom. 

I know that sounds like a mess but I've been seeing some clever creations on Pinterest.

We will see how it turns out.

I went out after the sun had gone down behind the trees this evening.

The sun was blinding today.

I gave the horses roasted tomato tortillas.

They seemed to really like them.

I thought this was a pretty sunset this evening.

It's setting later and later......

In other news.....

Summer arrived back in Texas Thursday after spending 40 days in Puerto Rico.

She took Friday off to rest up after a full day of travel and then Saturday and Sunday she has felt so good she's been out and about visiting people.

This afternoon she went to the nursing home and visited.

Lillian was glad to see her!

Mother was happy she came.

Summer made the rounds visiting all our ladies there and even had a quick visit with Mr. Ester.

She knew that would mean a lot to me so she sent me these photos.

Our movie today was Same Kind of Different as Me.

I read the book.

I think Deanie recommended it to us.

 She may have passed around her copy to Nita and Lonnie and me. She does that a lot. 

That's what she did with The Glass Castle......

and Twelve Mighty Orphans.

The movie stayed true to the book for the most part.

The authors, Ron Hall and Denver Moore, spoke at my son, Jesse's church and Louis Dean and I went to hear them. I remember Jesse set us on the front row off to the right of the platform.

It was an excellent movie and gave us much food for thought.

We have been down here at the ranch for 17 days and tonight Louis Dean played his guitar and sang to me for the first time since we've been here.

I'd say that's a pretty good way to close out this weekend!