Our Weekend in the Country.....

We have been here at the ranch for a full week now and we will be heading home tomorrow.

I've enjoyedevery single minute!

 

The spring flowers are starting to fade and a few summer ones are popping up now.

It's been fun to watch the goats frolicking around.

I like to watch them but they will eat any and every thing if they get inside the fence.

The golden hour on Friday.

Louis Dean has been tending the campfire every day we've been here except one.

Friday I gave him a good pedicure.

His diabetic feet have been giving him quite a bit of pain and I thought the footbath might help him and it did. 

Tabitha has never been a lapcat but for some reason she hopped up Louis Dean's lap and stayed there for 45 minutes! He was ready to go to bed but waited until she jumped down before he would get up.

Tarzan came up to see us. He is a brother cat to our Tabitha and Samantha!

He knows he can get free food when we are down here.

I also give the mops treats like leftovers and lunchmeat.

I can usually scrounge up something for them. 

When Rufus was alive, he would come to the door and bark while the mops very quietly and politely come up and stand there waiting for me to notice them.

When I woke up Saturday morning, LD told me Tabitha had got out!

She's not bad about doing that down here as I think she knows instinctively that it's not safe.

He said he hated to tell me because he knew I would be upset.

Turns out she was lying in my chair all curled up and asleep.

It was Tarzan that had streaked past him when he was on the deck and he just thought it was Tabitha!

I made a good pasta salad the other day andit made for a couple of easy meals.

Saturday night Rosey came over for dinner and we had the very best visit!

I had cooked a big pork shoulder and divided it up for street tacos and for BBQ.

I served BBQ, beans and pepper poppers and Rosey brought wine and potato salad.

Dean and Sherry arrived just a few minutes after she got here.

They had been in Stephenville doing a karate event, The sat on the porch with us and visited but didn't stay to eat dinner since they were so tired.

Louis Dean was taking a long nap so Rosey and I  sat in the comfy chairs and ate and visited.

It was just what I needed and she was and is such a blessing to me.

Sometimes you just need to have a good talk and we did.

Just as she was driving up to the gate, I realized that I had forgotten to serve the strawberry cheesecake I'd made for dessert!

Louis Dean was reading a book in bed when I came in to check on him.

He said he felt like Rosey and I needed some time for girl talk and I thought that was very sweet of him.

 I slept so well Saturday night and it was nearly 10:00 when I woke up this morning.

Louis Dean had already been out working on projects.

I've discovered it doesn't really matter what he does as long as he has something to keep him interested and focused. 

I watched church online and then did some writing on my book.

Meals were easy today as we ate leftovers.

I made homemade guacamole and served it with chips and pepper poppers from last night for our late lunch.

For supper we had BBQ, beans and the potato salad Rosey had left for us.

Before we go to bed tonight we will eat a slice of cheesecake.

Louis Dean worked on the fence for several hours today.

He's used his weed eater a good bit since we got it.

Slowly but surely he's managed to whack down a good many wildflowers but he knows better than to touch the sunflowers that are growing up!

I have been doing some writing and have finished chapter 39 with 2,790 words and started chapter 40 with 982 words so far. I will pick up from 2003 next week and am going to try my best to write at least a half hour every day!

I won't be publishing chapter 15 tomorrow as I wrote it back in 2019 and I need to proof it and see what edits it needs. Amber has been super busy and I feel guilty asking her to keep up with the chapters.

Once the book is totally written, it will require more editing so I'll just see how things go.

This is only the second time I will have missed posting a chapter on Mondays.

At least I think it is!

Goodnight from the country!