Roses and Honeysuckle

Yesterday a tall, dark handsome man came bearing gifts.

Toilet paper and roses!

The good looking guy was Mike - my much loved son in law.

He made my day!!

I was blessed to lay my eyes on Amber and Mike and the kids who all remained in the car and I on the driveway as well as Summer who came for a safe look see and to bring me the best pair of scissors I have ever held in my hands! They make cutting out the masks I'm sewing a pure pleasure.

It seems like when I have an 'up' day - the next one is a bit of a 'down' one.

I woke up around 10:00 but stayed in bed until 1:00 this afternoon, just getting out of bed to get

coffee and then getting right back in.

I finished the book Mercy Snow yesterday so I am trying to get into another one.

Life is always better when you have a good book to read.

The one I am in now is The Rooster Bar by John Grisham.

Once I was up, I could hear the mower going and knew our lawn guy was here so I went out to pay him. 

He does a good job on the yard but I have to do some upkeep and so far this year I have spent very little time out in the front.

The Asian Jasmine has grown like crazy and would completely cover the shrubs and bushes if I didn't go out and cut it back. So I did that today.

Then I decided to open up all the tubs of spring and summer debris and figure out what to keep and what not to keep and where to put everything.

I decided to use all the patriotic decorations in the gazebo.

In the tubs I found some fabric I can use for masks.

Since we may be wearing them for quite awhile I thought some red/white/blue would be in order!

Texas has just been told we must wear a mask whenever we go in a business or grocery store - out in public basically.

I love to see people wearing the homemade ones!

Here's Amber all suited up wearing one of the denim masks.

This was Summer a few days ago as she dressed up to go out and get supplies.

This was Summer yesterday.

She had been in bad shape for nearly two weeks but she has rallied some and was able to get out of bed and out of the house for a little while.

Hopefully they will be allowing elective in-patient surgeries soon and she can have the spinal cord stimulator.

It's encouraging to hear news that the country will slowly be opening back up for business.

Those who are older and more at risk will continue to stay in for the most part and that includes us.

However, our bees are comming in from East Texas toward the end of next week and we will be going down to the ranch for several days.

Louis Dean and I both have doctor appointments which will require bloodwork so we have to come back home, but once that's done, I'm thinking we will go back down to the camper and stay for a good long while. There's 2,190 cases of Covid 19 in Dallas county.

In McLennan county (Waco) there are 68 and in Falls county where the ranch is - there is 1!

SO I think hunkering down for a few more weeks down there would be the safest place!

I read today that they now believe the sun and heat will help kill the virus!

At any rate, I think some fresh air and sunshine would be so good for us right now!