I Celebrated my Very First Father's Day .....Leo Everett Gage....1922-1969

Father's Day 2021 ....the very first Father's Day where I can share a photo and the name of my earthly father.....and celebrate this day in a very personal way.

My father lived from 1922-1969.

I was born in 1948.....my father was 26 years old when I was born....and yet I do not believe he ever knew about me.

But, as my newly found brother, Buster, said, "He knows you now."

These six men are the Fathers I celebrate this year of 2021....

My father, Leo E.Gage, who fathered four daughters and two sons.....

My brother, Lonnie, who has two sons......

My son, Jesse, who has three children......

My Son-in-law and love, Mike, who has four children - all the same age.....

My brother, Buster, who has two daughters....

and the man who has made me the happiest I have ever been in my life......Louis Dean, my precious husband.

I wanted to open tonight's journal entry with Father's Day......

and now I will catch up on the weekend.

Saturday morning, Sherry and I were up early and checking and treating the last three hives in our apiary.

I dearly LOVE to hear the humming of the bees!!!

We were finished before our Deans even woke up!

My Dean was out watering his pea patch when I took this pic of him.

A friend suggested this would make a good painting and I think so, too!

I am grateful for every single day we have together.

Saturday, June 26th, will be our 16th wedding anniversary.

I have asked God for 25 years with Louis Dean......that would make him 93 in 2030.

Every day is a gift and I treasure them all.

We are eating well here in the country - and every meal features our homegrown tomatoes!

 I am taking the easy way out and using paper plates......not something I normally do.

On Sunday we watched Fellowship Live online before going into 'town' (Waco) and shopping Sam's.

Louis Dean was prepared to load all this up by himself - and he could have done that, I'm sure - but a young couple came by and offered to do it for him! God is GOOD!

This is what we bought - in addition to a deck box for the front porch here at the ranch.

This cubicle system will work well in the big bathroom at home in Irving.

I have the option of using all four pieces there or only three and bringing one back down for his shop......or the bathroom here.

It was a beautiful Sunday and all the way back to the ranch we picked out pictures in the sky.

We unloaded and got ready to go down to Dean and Sherry's for dinner.

I packed a bucket of Margarita fixings.....the margarita mix in the vintage glass orange juice jar, a dish of lime slices, SALT, and three glasses. Louis Dean doesn't drink margaritas! Silly man!

I took seasoned skirt steak for fajitas, flour tortillas, chips and cheese queso.

The homemade margaritas were really good!

Sherry had grilled chicken to go with my beef along with Spanish rice and refried beans.

It was a FEAST!!!

Guess what our entertainment was???

I totally missed this back in 1997 - but Louis Dean didn't!

We are both enjoying it now!

SO funny!!!

Sunday night ended with father and son working on the tiller for our garden.

Dean and Sherry are so good to us!!

Monday has been a good day!

This is the way we protect our food from the stray fly that finds its way in.

The front room is all closed in and both doors now have screen doors in front of them.

There's screens on all the windows.

Still, a fly or two or three or four manage to find their way in!

What can beat a BLT???

Okay!! If you add onions and avocado! YUM.

We eat nearly all our meals on these pretty chicken trays I bought at Virginia's in Mart on Friday.

Louis Dean worked today on putting up the red screen door on the east side of the front room.

He had it up in the fall but the wind tore it off and he's had to redo it.

I went out - with a large straw hat on - and picked the blackeyed peas this afternoon.

Then I came back and shelled them!

Rain came in just as I was nearly finished picking and, as I sat on the front porch shelling them, I was drenched with the humidity.

After the rain, I picked the rest of the purple hulled peas.

Then another stronger round of rain came in.

Sherry was up here visiting after work - and after she had finished her tractoring - and helped me shell peas until the weather cleared and she went home.

We got water to the camper on Thursday.

It was wonderful!

Then late this afternoon, the toilet connection in the camper bathroom gave way and flooded the camper bathroom and into the kitchen area.....while I was happily shelling peas in the front room.

Poor Louis Dean! He can't seem to catch a break between pressing situations!

It seems like it's always something!

The cats have the best lives ever!

Tabitha literally stayed in this chair sleeping all day!

Goodnight from the country!