Last Tuesday Brenda was vacationing in Florida but she was back for our regular Tuesday thrifting day! We started off at Texas Thrift on Beltline Road and then to Angel's Attic in Grapevine.
This is an upscale resale shop and this week they were having a sale of 40% off of everything!
We stopped for lunch at Jason's Deli and then finished up our day with a trip to Hobby Lobby.
All in all, we had a real treasure of a Tuesday!
The sunflower painting above is one of Brenda's treasures but I'm going to jazz it up a bit for her.
I found some cool things at Hobby Lobby like the sunflower napkin rings, clock for our front porch, place mats, yellow table runner and some metal honeybee knobs for the bathroom cabinet at the ranch.
That chocolate brown Lucky Brand bag was a good find!
I bought some textiles to use on our front porch once we get a new roof on.
So many pretty things!
I have thrown out a good many decorations lately that have just grown too shabby even for me.
I am loving all the fresh looking replacements I've found.
It's like God put little surprises for us here and there to find when we are out thrifting.
Before I left Tuesday morning, I hid the big container of cooking oil.
Louis Dean likes to fry things when I'm not home!
He was napping in the guest room when I got home so I went about taking my pictures and putting all my purchases up. I heard him in the kitchen later and went in to see him at the stove with the can of shortening! He was melting about 3 CUPS of it to fry some potatoes!
I started squawking like an old wet hen and poured two cups of the melted grease in a container and reminded him that I was serving pinto beans and cornbread for supper.
In the end, he peeled four potatoes and cut them up for French fries and cooked them - in only ONE cup of oil! Guess I'll have to hide BOTH shortening and oil next time.
Louis Dean has spent days going on weeks now putting our gazebo back together again.
The fly in the buttermilk is the electricity!
I think he's just about ready to call it DONE!
We went to bed so early on Tuesday night that we were up well before our usual time this Wednesday morning!
We had coffee in the gazebo before he went back to work and I went to ALDI for groceries.
I've had our medicines out on the den table for the last four days trying to get all the boxes filled.
I needed a refill or two for him and some OTC things from Amazon and finally finished that chore up late this afternoon!
Dinner tonight was like a Mini Thanksgiving!
Chicken and dressing, peas, and sweet potato casserole.
Summer arrived from Arkansas in time to eat with us!
I'll be taking her to the airport in the morning as she leaves for Washington, D.C. where she will meet up with Sabrina and Rayne for a short vacation.
I think I'll go to bed now.....
