Redeeming the Time......

 Life and plans do not always work out exactly as we would like.
The ranch is still wet and muddy and it continues to rain down there - and here, too.

We miss our kitties but know they are enjoying their visit with the Bells.
Kailey left this sign taped to the guest room door and I just noticed it today!

Love the 'and/or.'

Amber and I send pics of the kitties back and forth between us on a regular basis.

They are especially precious when we are apart.

I love how Mike loves the kittens!

Samantha always looks so surprised!

Tabitha has been 'talking' to them a lot.

She's not too thrilled about being picked up, though!

Every morning here at home, she would wrap herself around Louis Dean's neck - morning and evening.

It was harder to do when he sat in the living room but she still managed to crawl across the back of the sofa and curl herself around - knocking a picture and frame off the wall as she made room for herself.

We checked the weather when we got up Wednesday and rain was everywhere.

Not a deluge but just enough to keep the mud wet and then add some to it!

Since we were 'at loose ends'.....I love that phrase!....I decided to get my hair cut.

It never fails to make me feel better!

My Yulisa is an artist!

I picked up a few groceries at Aldi and came home in the rain.

Speaking of Aldi.....I joined MeWe recently and was already a member of Parler.....and we all know what happened there. Anyway, there are groups you can join on MeWe and I chose Aldi Nerds!

It is amazing how many people love Aldi and they share recipes and recommendations and all sorts of fun things. I also joined Cats, Inc, which is a place people post pics and you know I had to put a few out there of Tabitha and Samantha!

I came home and did a few housekeeping chores and then took a nap.

When I woke up at 7:15 last night, Louis Dean had turned most of the lights off in the house!

He thought I was down for the count - but I wasn't!

Thursday has been a Stay-at-Home day for me.

I am dusting and polishing and cleaning.....

bringing some of the decorations and 'debris' in from the storage building attic.

Not much in the way of spring or Easter yet.

And I have been working in the kitchen.

It looks vacant up there without all the 'stuff!'

All of this will come down tomorrow.

Can you see the blank area on top of that cupboard?

That hole where the toaster oven is was custom designed for a large microwave back in 1983.

I replaced it once when the first one died and then after that - they simply don't make them that size anymore. I'm thinking Louis Dean can do something with this to make it functional and attractive.

Or - since I AM the Queen of Cover-Up - I may sew a curtain! That's not a good place for a toaster oven anyway.....

Yesterday Louis Dean went to Home Depot and bought bags and bags of garden soil for my herb garden. We meant to work on that today, but it rained. And he bought birdseed but it was too wet to fill up all the feeders. Tomorrow, perhaps.

I don't like it when I am in the 'mulligrubs.' 

"Those “mulligrubs” (always in the plural form) are a state of depression or low spirits (also known at various times as “the dumps,” “the blues,” “the doldrums” and, of course, “the mubble fubbles,” which I am not making up). The “mulligrubs” can also be simply a bout of crankiness or a bad mood"

**Source**

So I do what I can to cheer myself up.

Cleaning and fluffing is my go-to therapy and that accomplishes a few things while I am working my way through whatever it is that is bothering me.

Louis Dean and I were talking and he suggested us taking a few days off next week and driving down to Galveston! A walk on the beach, gathering some shells and listening to the seagulls sounds so perfect to me! He got right up and took the car down to get the oil changed, tires checked and have it ready for a short road trip!

He came back with this card and could not wait to give it to me!

You may not be able to read what he wrote at the bottom....

One of the wisest sayings I ever heard was....

I can't think of anything better than the years ahead with you,

of walking down the path of life and making dreams come true.

Now I am going to make you laugh when you hear what's behind that 'wise saying.'

Ellen, Louis Dean's beloved first wife, gave him an anniversary card and added that saying at the bottom. Louis Dean said he was so touched by it and told her that was the sweetest thing she could have written. She said, 'Yeah, one of my old boyfriends wrote that in a card to me once and I never forgot those words. I forgot the boyfriend, though!"

Louis Dean says he's sure it wasn't original even from that old boyfriend back then.

"He probably copied it off from somewhere else!"

Hard to be blue when you live with Louis Dean and I am ever so grateful I do.

Tonight I had a phone call from Eckie who ran the Thursday night music jam sessions we used to go to.

She was calling everyone on the list of members and was so happy to hear that Louis Dean and I are alive and well and still living in Irving.

Then she told me about all the members who have died since we last met.

Many, many people. Some younger than we and lots of the older ones.

I promised Eckie that the ones of us who are still here when this Covid thing is over are going to have a big party at our house and play good music and eat good food and drink fine wine and have a good time - just as we did several years ago.

I'm all about redeeming things and that includes time.......