We purposely stayed an extra day as we had a few things we wanted to do before heading back to Oswego. We enjoy having breakfast out and its been a few days (haha); so we looked for a new place to try and found "Homegrown". As far as location, we could not have selected a better restaurant to fit in with the things we wanted to do today. Located at 29th & Maize, we pulled in a little after 8. It was located in a small, relatively new, strip mall.
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| Sunrise this morning on our way to breakfast. |
We were seated pretty quick. I had checked out the menu online so I knew what I wanted to order and after Dean took a look at it, he decided on his regular meal of eggs and sausage that included rosemary potatoes and wheat toast. He really liked his meal. I chose eggs benedict that included roasted turkey, avocado, and tomatoes. They were good but two benedicts was way too much food. When the waitress picked up our plates I asked her if there was an option to only order one of the benedicts. She said several people had inquired about that but the manager had declined to offer it with just one. That's disappointing since the one was plenty for me. I only ate a few bites of the potatoes and a few bites of the second one. However, despite that, the food was very good and we would not hesitate to return. I would just choose something different next time.
Our next stop was across the street at Sam's to pick up a few items we use regularly in bulk because of the savings, since we have the room to store them. I also wanted to check out a few resale shops. There were four along Tyler heading south so they were right on the path we wanted to take to end up at son Jarred's house around noon. All three were a bust - the Goodwill was fairly new and there just wasn't much available compared to others I have visited; the second one was geared to young people; and the third and fourth ones were closed on Monday. We were not too far from a Khol's so I suggested we see if they had anything on sale I might like. I was looking for a few long sleeve shirts for the coming winter weather. Fortunately, I found two I really liked for $10 each so I was happy we stopped even though the 20% coupon I had expired the day before. Dean wanted to stop at Lowe's and we spent some time walking around in there, before our last stop at Jarred's (just around the corner) where we picked up granddaughter Emerson for one last visit before we leave for Oswego tomorrow.
I fixed grilled cheese sandwiches for our lunch when after we returned to Benltey. Emmy and I shared one. Then we had a few grapes and apples. She has a good appetite.
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| Dad gave her a sucker for after lunch - and the many faces of Emerson enjoying it! |
After lunch she played for a while, teasing Papa about his neck pillow being her pillow. She became attached to it when she stayed with us the first time on this trip and her and Papa have had great fun with that. A little after 2pm, she wanted to lay down and listen to music on her Ipad. After about thirty minutes or so, she was sound asleep and slept until it was time to take her back home about 4:30.
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| That is Papa's pillow she is laying her head on, while enjoying her book and listening to her music. |
I spent the afternoon doing laundry, getting a few pre-travel things done by putting away some of the things we would not need before we leave tomorrow, and updating our budget report, which was way behind. Dean did some pre-travel chores outside as well.
With the Chromebook I can not use Microsoft Word or Excel programs in Google but I can save them from Word and Excel in a Google format, which I did last week with the buget program. I input a number of receipts into the program by inividual day, and color coded each one. I do this so as I can easily check them against our bank account, credit card reports and those paid in cash, to make sure everything is included for the month. Occasionally we lose a receipt and then I can pick those up from the other reports. After I was done, I closed the program. I realized I forgot to input a couple of recipts and when I reopened it - none of the information I just input was there. I probably spent at least an hour - maybe more doing all of this. I was pretty frustrated. I tried several different things to be sure it just wasn't there. Google automatically saves as you input info in, but for some reason it just didn't work. I put it away for later since Emerson was now awake, and we needed to take her home.
After we dropped Emerson off with Mom and Dad, we decided to stop at the Golden Corral just a short distance from their house. I like it for their salad bar and all of the vegetables they have on their buffet, plus one of my favorites - their bread pudding. However, I was disappointed this is the first GC without the bread pudding on their buffet. 😞
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| Emerson had to show us her bicycle before we left. |
Our final stop was at Dillon's on our way back to the RV Park. I purchased a few grocery items and before we left Dean filled the truck with diesel at 2.97/gallon. We like that price!
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| Sunset heading back to Bentley! |
Even thought I was going to have to do this a second time, I really wanted to get the budget updated, so I input each of the receipts again, but instead of doing them all at once - I did just a few, then closed out of Google Docs to see if it was saving the information. I did this twice before finally finishing it up - and it saved everytime. I don't know why it didn't work before but fortunately it worked just fine this time and hopefully I will not have this problem again.
I had one last load of laundry to do and I started it prior to the input of receipts in our budget file. It had been running for qute awhile, when Dean noticed the lights flasing on the front of it. I pulled out our manual that came with it to see what might be going on. Dean ended up unplugging it and letting it set for a minute before plugging it back in as the manual suggested. Once he did that, we were able to open the machine. Since it is both a washer and dryer, you have to set the knobs a certain way if you want to wash only. Once the wash cycle is completed then you can set the dryer to operate separately; or you can set it to wash and then dry immediately afterwards right from the start - which I never do. When I looked at it closer, I saw what happened. I turned the dryer portion off from the previous load, but I turned it one notch past OFF, and it was set on the longest drying selection. I was pretty upset since it was our good shirts. Fortunately, all seemed well other than they were slightly wrinkled but fortunately they were still slightly damp as it did not finish the previous cyce. I laid them out on the island on top of each other and left them for awhile. This is what the "Wrinkle Free Laundry" manual I purchased from Sandra Jones on operating the Splendide machine says to do for shirts. Later I folded them and put them back in the dryer for a 20 minute cycle and then hung them in the shower to finish drying over night since they still had a light dampness to them. I'm hoping when I check them in the morning the few remaining wrinkles will be gone. I know I will sure double check where I turn the dial in the future.
Update: This morning they were dry, and the wrinkles were gone! All is well.
I mentioned yesterday that son Matt & family are going to visit Kansas in a couple of weeks. They are flying from Buffalo, with a stop in Chicago before arriving in Kansas City. Rather than haul all the things they will need for the kids on the plane (car seats, pack and play, etc.) Jarred and Andrea are sending all of these things back to Oswego with us since we will be picking them up at the airport in KC. The back seat of the truck has a large saucer play stand for Sam to use (he loves his), a pack and play for Sam to sleep in, two carseats - one for Sam and one for Sarah, and we have a booster seat in storage that we can use for Josh. I can't imagine trying to wrestle all of that at the airport. We are so thankful Jarred and Andrea still have all of these things they can use since they will be here for 10 days. They will definitely be needed. As we packed things in the truck, Jarred realized he forgot the infant car seat so he will bring it by in the morning on his way to work - and we'll get to see Emerson one more time before we leave.
We are thankful for another great day!
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