Art, Bee Meeting, More Art and Cleaning Up to Go Home......

I got a good bit of art done on Tuesday!

Even though I slept late.

Life is so much better when you can sleep well at night.

I have decided to do under painting for this next batch!

The photo I'm working from is a watercolor and I paint in oils.

Still.....you use turpentine thinned paint when you under paint so this works.

It doesn't look anything like the finished piece will - but it's a good start.

I ran out of time before I got to this one - which is a birthday gift for my friend, Brenda.

We both celebrate September birthdays.

I hopped up from the art table and freshened up - with and extra spritz of Sunflower cologne to cover up any lingering scent of turpentine!

I picked Sherry up in my car at 5:15 and we headed to Waco.

The AC is amaxing and I am so glad to drive and ride in comfort again!

We met our beekeeper sister, Rosey, at El Conquistador for an early dinner before our monthly bee meeting. Those Papita Nachos are SO good!!!

We had such a good time visiting and catching up with all that's going on....I never once thought to take pics!  We were only one minute late to the bee meeting!

We meet in an outdoor church area and each meeting is better and better.

I guess because we are making friends and maybe part of it is that we are all staying in so much more than we used to so any social occassion is to be celebrated and enjoyed all the more.

Louis Dean and I had planned on going home today but we decided to treat ourselves to another 24 hours of country living!

I woke up late - again.

Tomorrow I will be up earlier for sure!

Since we have been here (5 days) I have done very little housework.

Just the dishes mostly.

Today I began the cleaning.

I always leave the camper/cabin as clean and tidy as possible.

Makes coming back so much more enjoyable.

I love my tiny bathroom.

So many treasures in it.

Mother's Day cards from both of my daughters are tucked into doilies on the wall.

The hummingbird towels were gifts from Deanie when we were getting the camper ready to go to Katy, Texas back when the quads were born.

The blue doily is from my friend, Brenda, and belonged to her grandmother.

The pink and green napkin holder was a thrift store treasure.

The I love that you're my mom plaque and the blue bee motif glass are from Summer.

I do dearly love looking at all my 'debris.'

And I love cleaning and fluffing everything up.

Later today I went out and investigated the fall garden we never planted!

It's amazing how God gave us one anyway - by way of the wind blowing the seeds over from Dean's garden or maybe a bird dropping them down into ours!

9 watermelons - one large, one medium size and the rest tiny to medium - and all looking healthy and growing nicely!

TWO cantaloupe. 

One is huge and still growing. It's an exotic cantaloupe but I don't remember the name.

The other isn't webbed like a cantaloupe so we shall see.

Thsi afternoon and evening I finished up my art for this trip.

I feel good about what I got done.

Two each of the Santas and the still life is based in for Brenda.

We had chili dogs with all the trimmings for lunch - mustard, chopped onions, shredded cheese, and relish. For dinner I roasted butternut squash, patty pan squash and some baby carrots. 

I sprinkled them with a drizzle of good olive oil and some HEB Buttery Herb seasoning along with garlic salt and pepper. Oh, my goodness!

Sherry picked these fresh from the garden this morning and they were delicious.

Louis Dean ate frozen pizza.

Silly man. He doesn't eat squash unless it's fried.

So - in other words - he doesn't eat squash!

We are closing out our last night with a camp fire!

8 years ago today we pulled this camper down to Katy, Texas where we lived for 7 months helping Amber and Mike with the baby quads.

 They were so tiny.

And Louis Dean was so good with them!

 Now they are 8 years old and in the third grade!

And they still dearly love their Granddad!!

Goodnight....sleep well!