Catching up - Again

 I don't know how time gets away from me and I fall behind in my journal entries!

Hang on because I have six days to 'catch up on!'

Louis Dean and I have been working on the backyard and I'm loving the open look of the gazebo by taking down the netting and rain curtains.

In the past I've tried to cover up the views from where Sanford and Son used to live.

I love this view from our gazebo to the kitchen deck.

Lights in my herb garden.....

Our view from the bedroom patio....

View from the gazebo....

I do so love my fairy lights....

Saturday movie and dinner night with Ilene.

Our movie was an excellent choice!

Thank you, Ilene, for recommending this one.

Sunday was a good day!

Fellowship Church online and walking in our gardens.....

Summer gifted me this miniature rose bush and it is thriving.

I used to kill plants but maybe I have figured out how to keep them alive.

Monday morning's breakfast - served in the afternoon.

We tend to sleep late so it's our norm to have two meals and a happy hour.

This was something I saw on Facebook.....sliced tomatoes and I added onion with fresh herbs and eggs - and I added cheese. Cooked on the stove and then inverted it onto a plate and slid it back in the skillet to finish the other side. Topped with sour cream and chopped avocado  and served with buttered sourdough bread - delicious!

Louis Dean had an eye appointment with his retina specialist Monday afternoon.

I forgot to take our traditional selfie in the doctor's waiting room.

Maybe because this is our least favorite doctor visit and we both see her so that makes the visits more often.

I guess I was not paying enough attention because I thought it was a followup appointment but instead it was for the laser surgery on Louis Dean's left eye.

It went well and within an hour and forty five minutes we were on our way to the pharmacy to get his new eye drops. He now needs three different eye drops with two of them three times a day but at least five minutes between. Then his normal eye drops for glocoma at night.

Medicine is complicated!

I prepared what I thought would be a good meal that night.

You can't go wrong with roasted veggies......

and Louis Dean cut up the cucumbers, onions and bell peppers for the salad.

I made the dressing from sour cream, mayo, lemon juice, seasonings and dill weed.

So GOOD! So far so good......

I thawed out what I thought was chicken breasts 

and used a recipe from my step son's karate cookbook.

Alas, it was not chicken breast but what I thought were chicken tender pieces.

So I proceeded to fry them up - only to discover they were actually chicken skins and parts I'd saved for the possums.

My bad!!!

I fed them all to the critters!

I had nor seen Samantha all day on Monday and feared she had got out and perhaps someone had taken her since she's so pretty.

I wanted to take my mind off of what could have happened to Samantha so I watche the Stars game on Monday night. It was extra exciting in that the Bells were there!

I stayed up late to watch and they won!!!

This morning (Tuesday) I looked up to the sky and prayed for Samantha's return....

I had been praying but when I walked down the hall right after my prayer, Samanthat strolled out of our bedroom! No clue if she had been in the house the whole time or if she had come in through an open door. I had put Tabitha in the guest room during this time not wanting to lose both of them.

Between keeping up with these two cats and Louis Dean keeps me on my toes!

We are loving the camera bird feeder Amber and Mike gave Louis Dean for Christmas!

We are up to 24 species that have visited our feeder.

I didn't get up until nearly noon today.....and with the extra attention I needed to give Louis Dean with his medication schedule....I told Brenda I couldn't do our normal Tuesday Treasures.

I truly misss my time with my best friend but life changes do change things.

It was late in the afternoon when Louis Dean and I left for our thriting adventure.

My best treasure was this beautiful lace - what? cloak? No matter what it is - I love it!

The details are amazing....

alas...it is a bit small for me so I can't button it closed.

No problem.....I am going to remove the fasteners and use it anyway!

Another good find was this ldies overall.

It has spandex and now Louis Dean and I can be twinkies!

Amber gifted me a great key chain that can easily be found in a purse.

Now I have FOUR to choose from plus the one Amber gave me.

I probably love sunflowers more than anyone I know.

This beautiful cobalt blue pitcher with the bright yellow flowers look perfect on my sewinf table.

I scored on three Tuscany candles - all brand new and never been lit!!

All the candles I thrifted today were brand new.

Infused with CBD oil???

I love GooseCreek candles....

We are going to Galveston on Sunay the 26th.

Louis Dean and Ilene and I. 

If I had stayed married to Jesse - this would have been our 63rd anniversary.

I am so ever grateful that Louis Dean and I will be married 21 years on June 26th.

It's just like God to put things in place for us.....

I needed a new swimming suit and I found one!

Actually I found TWO!!

Ilene hasn't been to Galveston in over 20 years and she will be so amazed at how much it has changed since Hurricane Ike happened in 2008.

It has rebuilt and is a more tropical experience than ever!

I bought us two leis to wear when we walk the beach.

I thrifted three of these napkins and today I found the fourth one!

I love signage!

$5 each...plus the sunflower wreath for another $5!

Louis Dean is my Knight in Shining Overalls.

If  I ask him to do something - he is Johnny on the spot!

He said, "Linda, if I don't do it now, I'll forget."

Be still, my heart.

No matter what - I know how much he loves me and he knows how much I love him.

God is good and I am so grateful for these years of being married to Louis Dean.