Tuesday Treasures! Lillian Shopping and Deanie's Amazing Collections.....

It's been a good Tuesday!

I picked Lillian up before noon and she was ready to go!

She has lost so much weight since we first met her but she told me today she's been eating more these days. She got her new 'uppers' but they are not fitting as well as they should but they seem to do better than her old ones. We decided to go to the new Goodwill in Benbrook and we would just pick out where to eat after we got there.

Lillian opted to shop first and eat after so that's what we did.

It's a nice Goodwill and had a good selection of things.

She got four tops and a pair of comfy shoes.

Notice my 'model?'

I brought them home to launder.

I also bought her a over the door mirror - but I didn't get home with it and I can't imagine what I did with it! It was a big one - brand new and in the box for $14.99. I know I came out of the store with it because I was pushing the cart and carrying the mirror and I pushed the cart BACK into the store after I unloaded. I must have propped it up against the car - maybe? There was a lot to do when we get to the car. I help Lillian get in the front seat and I run around and start the engine so the AC kicks in. Then I load her walker in the back seat and our shopping bags in the truck. 

So I can't figure out where in the world I left that mirror!!

Here's what I got - 2 tops and 2 of what I call 'house dresses.'

That's the two on the bottom.

The one on the left is on the short side and will look cute with white leggings.

The other one is nicest than the pic shows. 

It has a self slip inside and can be worn out in public as well as around the house.

I think the two tops are super cute!

I spied this chicken coffee cup and smiled when I saw the Williams-Sonoma on the back.

I have a hard time pronouncing that....which Amber finds amusing!

Every southern lady needs a Bless Your Heart sign.

I think this will hang outside under the eves of the French doors that open to the gazebo.

Which, by the way, Louis Dean finished wiring today while I was gone!

It kind of made my heart sad to see this beautifully stitched Home cross stitch.

I simply had to lovingly put it in my basket and take it home with me.

It was even professionally framed.

The frame does need a bit of touch up but I can do that with no problem.

Look at the pretty stitches.

So much work, time and love must have been put into this.

A cool handbag hook.

From Goodwill, we drove through Arby's and picked up some lunch and took it over to Deanie's to eat and visit with her.

She took this photo of Lillian and me.

It reminds me of how Mother and I would always take a pic every time I visited her.

Then Mother would want to look at the pictures and pick the one I could post on Facebook.

It touched my heart that Lillian wanted to look at them just the way Mother did.

This is Winston, Deanie's grand dog.

He stays with Deanie and Charlie during the day while Andie is at school and Trish is at work.

He deserves TWO photos!

Deanie and Charlie moved into this house nearly 4 years ago.

Mother came to live with them right away.

All of their pretty decorations and amazing collections were packed away for so long but now they are up on the walls.

It's hard to show her hall going to the bathroom off of the kitchen......

This is such an interesting wall.......

The Beatles and Abbey Road......Saturday Night Fever.....Sonny and Cher.....Beach Boys.

I have a lot of debris.

Deanie and Nita have true collections.

This is the wall opposite.

I have always loved the way they did their Monopoly set.

The Three Stooges

I LOVE this!

Her things are truly vintage.

And she displays them so well in glass covers and all.

I could stay in her bathroom just looking at everything for a long time.

Like going back in time.

This is authentic. Given to Charlie by the father of their daughter in law who worked at Walt Disney.

This is the wall by the sink.

This was above the sink.

I am so happy to see Deanie nesting and decorating.

We three sat around the table in the kitchen talking and catching up.

It was a wonderful way to end our afternoon,

I took Lillian back to her place and I headed home on the Express Lanes getting here in 45 minutes - right at 5:00. Seems like I come in and go to bed these days and that's what I did again today.

A nice nap and a little down time to read some and I was ready to pop back up and get to work doing laundry and putting up the art supplies I brought back home from the ranch.

I am happy to say that Louis Dean has not mentioned the pie - and it's still there in the fridge.

Tonight I may pop it in the freezer - after I wrap it up in foil.

There was not much damage control when I got home today either.

Louis Dean heated his leftover goulash hamburger stew - and made toast.

What he DID do while I was gone was some laundry.

That's another thing he simply enjoys doing.

Washing his own clothes.

When we are at the ranch, he actually washes his overalls - soaks them and then scrubs them, rinses and hangs them up outside to dry. Why, I do not know.

I usually wash everything when we get home....but this time he had squirreled away a tub full of his dirty clothes....and kept them in the music room until the coast was clear to wash them himself.

That reminds me - he told me he hung them outside to dry so I need to remind him to bring them in.

I remember the time he washed all the white linens, covers, and duvet on our bed. I like to never found the big down comforter. He had hung it up outside to dry - spread out on TOP of a big table umbrella! I had to wash it again once I finally found it because the birds had drooped on it!!

I will close tonight's journal entry with this pic Summer posted on Facebook this morning!

Bless his heart.......