Kitties, New Glasses, Rain, Bee Meeting! Couple of Country Days!

We are enjoying our two kittens and I think they are happy to be here with us.

I think we got them at the perfect age - around 8 weeks old.

They explore everywhere!

Louis Dean found Tabitha up on a shelf in the bathroom sitting beside a moss covered bunny I bought at The Silos in Waco.

So cute!

Samantha perched herself on top of a mattress Louis Dean has strapped to a wall for storing.

There's so many hidey holes both here and at home.

I set my alarm for Monday morning at 9:00 because I had an 11:50 eye exam appointment.

And it was raining! As in HARD rain!

Poor Louis Dean frets over me taking his truck out in the mud so thankfully, Dean offered to take me to town. That made his dad happy!

I have been layering glasses and have been know to wear three pair at a time.

I am weary with that so I ordered two new pair of glasses with more 'glass' in the frames.

I have been so used to readers that I need more 'seeing' room within the frames.

The appointment took awhile with each patient going into three different rooms for one appointment.

One for one machine.

Another for the air test and a third for the doctor - who was on a wall screen!

It was kind of weird but it works.

I should have them by the middle of July!

Dean and I celebrated our afternoon in town with a catfish lunch at The Catch.

Delicious!

He had some errands to do - a part for Sherry's tractor and such that it was 5:00 when we got back to the ranch. Louis Dean was taking a nap and I was super sleepy so I went to bed in the girl bunk.

Around 6:00 my phone rang and it was Louis Dean asking me if I got lost!

He didn't even know I was home!

I thought sure he would see my purse and the bag from HEB but - nope!

We had a good laugh and then Dean and Sherry came down to visit.

We had a little problem.

Dean is teaching this weekend at a Karate event in North Carolina so we had planned to take him home with us on Wednesday evening and then I could take him to the airport Thursday morning.

Turns out his ticket is for Wednesday morning!

And our bee meeting Tuesday night so we would have to drive home in the deep dark after our meeting.

Then Louis Dean decides HE will drive home and take Dean to the airport on Wednesday while Sherry and I go to our meeting.

Remember - he gets lost coming back from Home Depot in Waco. And going through the airport??

No way! I could see 'Silver Alert!' flashing on the highway signs!

You know what Louis Dean says when he sees one of those signs?

'Look! Somebody escaped! Good for them!'

So we were all out there on the front deck brain storming and Dean checked to see how much it would cost to change his ticket and that was too expensive!

Summer happened to call about that time and she offered to drive down to the ranch and pick Dean up and take him home - she's house sitting while we are gone - and then drop him off at the airport the next morning. I said I would call her back. That sounded like a good plan but it had rained and the ranch was way too muddy for her car. We weren't sure we could get out and Dean and Sherry was leaving one of  their vehicles up close to the gate since more rain was coming.

Sherry came up with the best plan.

Neither one of us wanted to miss the bee meeting and we had already planned on meeting a sister bee keeper, Rosey, for dinner at 6:00 Tuesday night before going to our 8:00 meeting.

Why not ask Summer to meet us for dinner and then she and Dean could drive back to Irving?

Perfect solution!

This morning we woke up to cloudy skies and rain in the forecast.

However, as soon as we had our coffee, Louis Dean was out there putting up his fencing material as fast as he could go. He had finished and come in to take a nap when the dark clouds got closer and it started to come a real rain!

He was a happy man looking out and knowing his fence was UP!!

He will have to tweak it some but it's there.

The mops  Great Pyrenees had come up and paced all around the perimeter, checking it out.

The horses won't be able to get in now so Louis Dean can move on with his garden plans.

I did some more writing, finished Chapter 20 and made an outline for Chapter 21.

I am making progress.

I set up my art table yesterday and did some painting this afternoon before getting ready to go to town and meet Summer and Rosey for dinner.

The Durango was parked up on the gravel and we put our mud boots on and hiked up to it.

Louis Dean stayed at the ranch where he cleaned up some of the yard after the rain and washed the lawn mower off and stowed it away. He would rather stay here than go to town any day.

I didn't take a single picture after we left.

Summer was at the restaurant early and Rosey arrived right on time.

They were already visiting when we got there.

Dinner was great and we had a good time before we parted ways -

Summer and Dean headed back to Irving and we all went to China Springs, Texas for our bee meeting.

We met in an outdoor church tabernacle which was perfect!

Outdoors in the fresh rain washed air.

Who knew Texas in late June would feel so good??

There was a pretty nice group of people and we will continue our meetings in the same place although the vice president, who is the pastor of the church, said he could not promise the same quality of weather! We three took notes and learned some things and were glad we attended.

Our last bee meeting was 4 months ago.

Looks like we will be harvesting honey the last week of July.

It's an exciting adventure - this bee keeping!

We ended our evening with yet one more adventure.

It rained on us all the way home from China Springs.

We came in the gate and stopped at the end of the gravel, leaving the Durango there.

Their Dakota was parked on the side so we got in it to drive up to the camper/cabin.

But we didn't get far before we were stuck fast in the mud!

So we hauled ourselves out of the truck and promptly sunk our boots into deep sucking mud.

It was an effort to pull our feet up with each step and Sherry lost her balance - maybe because I was pulling on her arm trying to keep mine! We slip slided through the mud up to our place and then she sludged her way on down to the house! We were laughing and having a good time all the way!

So right now we are mudded in!

I don't think there's any way for us to get out tomorrow but maybe the next day.

If we can get the stuck truck out first!

We still need to open up our hives and check on the bees....

that's what we plan to do tomorrow after Sherry gets off work.

It's always an adventure when you're in the country and that's one of the things I love about being here!!