Tuesday Treasures and a Short Social Distance Visit.......

Yesterday afternoon we had visitors!

Mike had scored some toilet paper for us and Amber had picked up some fresh fruit and veggies along with a gallon of Ginger Peach tea from HTeaO.....which is delicious!

We maintained our social distancing as they played and snacked on the driveway after we went for a walk through the neighborhood. No other walkers but three bike riders were out.

It was wonderful to see Amber and the kids with my own eyeballs!

I missed being able to hug and kiss them but I was grateful for the visit.

They didn't stay long but we enjoyed every minute!

I love how Amber has made saying goodbye a tradition.

We had a really good dinner last night thanks to Stephanie and Mark, our next door neighbors.

She is a great cook and Mark is a master griller!

They sent over the brisket and I had the potato salad. I made coleslaw for myself and asparagus for Louis Dean. He loves the canned kind instead of the fresh.

Here are my Tuesday Treasures from Brenda!

Lots of Coldwater Creek garments and nearly everything fit me!

I have to hem a pair of two of jeans and I will be set.

She even sent some accessories!

It was a big Win! WIN!! for Tuesday Treasures!

We closed our Wednesday night out with a special cocktail I kind of made up.

It is Blackberry wine +  Chardonnay + Blackberry sparkling water + fresh blackberries + a sprig of mint. We took our drinks to the gazebo and sat out there for a nice visit to end our day.

I slept well last night as did Louis Dean......except he woke up early - as in 6:00 early - with some tightness in his chest. This always worries him....and me, too. Except he is up on his dotor visits and he's been taking his medicine.

I just made him an appointment yesterday with his cardiologist for the first week of June and the last week in May he has an appointment for an ECHO and a halter heart monitor.

I think his chest was hurting because he overworked in the garden a good bit yesterday.

We are going to have more tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and peppers than we will know what to do with!

He's grown these from seed in all the yogurt and cottage cheese containers he salvages from my kitchen trash. When I woke up he was already dressed and I found him asleep on the guest room bed and that's where he's spent a good part of this day. In addition to his aches and pains, working outside gave him an allergy induced asthma attack this afternoon - so he went back to bed again.

No new recipes yesterday or today although I have the page marked for a special popcorn.

TexMex with pepper sauce and chili powder! Maybe tomorrow. It would be good with a movie.

My dinner tonight was at a table for one.

The side deck and garden area is looking pretty.

I've been working on it a little every day.

Louis Dean rallied himself this evening and took out the trash.

Then he asked if I would like a campfire.

He knows how much I am missing the ranch so he hauled an old tin washtub over and built a fire in it using a good bit of the elm bark off the tree to get it started.

It was perfect. I roasted a couple of marshmallows and sat over on the bench by the fire just gazing into the flames for awhile. Wonderful.

I am sitting in the gazebo writing this journal entry and it has just started to rain.

I love the rain. Always have.

But we have a tank on the truck that we want to get down to Dean and Sherry and every time we think we can get in to deliver it - and maybe stay for a few days - it rains again.

It's only a two hour drive and we wouldn't have to stop on the way down or on the way back.

One of these days.......

and I'm not picky about which one!