We went to sleep with the windows slightly open in the bedroom last night. It was just a little stuffy inside. We sleep better if it is a little cooler at night. I woke up when my phone went off this morning at 5:30. This staying home all the time is not good for me. I sleep later than I prefer.
At 7:15 we got around to walk. Cindy had to work this week, so there was just Dean and I and some friends walking in the park this morning. I meant to call Misti to invite her to walk with us this week, but forgot to do it. I'll call her later this morning and invite her to join us the rest of the week. (I did that and she is going to walk with us in the morning for sure, at 7am).
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| Morning sunrise in the park |
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| These irises are so pretty. |
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| These pink and yellow irises are pretty as well. |
After we returned I made our shakes, using a bag of frozen mixed berries this morning. One of my favorite fruit choices. I am about to run out of frozen fruit again. It looks like I will be doing one more grocery trip this month. It's frozen and fresh fruit/vegetables that I need the most. I do have a few other things on my list but they can wait until after the first of the month.
We have been eating apples almost every day for lunch and as I've mentioned before we eat peanut butter with them. Dean doesn't really like peanut butter however lately, he has acquired quite a taste for it. If I could just convince the grand-kids that it really does work to keep tasting something, wouldn't that be great?
Dean left to go to the garage at 9. When he left I started cleaning - washing dishes, dusting, vaccuming, then changing the sheets and washing the ones I took off the bed. It felt good to get that done and things spruced up a bit.
About half way through my work, I stopped and called my cousin to visit a bit. She had sent me a text yesterday after reading the blog, and I didn't have time to respond when I saw it. I forgot about it until later in the evening, so I wanted to follow up with her. We had a really nice visit and it was good to catch up. She keeps in contact with a few other cousins and she also brought me up to date with them as well. Actually Martha is my dad's first cousin. They were not too far apart in age and her son, Randy and I are close in age. I loved going to her mom and dad's, Aunt Inola and Uncle Bill's, with my Papa and Nana Blackledge when I was younger. Aunt Inola was Nana's sister. Sometimes Randy would be there visiting and it was fun to have someone to play with.
While working on the puzzle I had piled things up on the desk. This morning all of it was put away. Now it is nice and neat, just the way I like it. (It probably won't last long, but it looks good right now.)
I was working on the blog when Dean returned a little after 11:30. He wanted to empty the tanks before he ate lunch. Once he was finished and had cleaned up, I made our lunch. We are out of celery and almost out of carrots, so I added a few more things to my list for tomorrow morning.
We will warm up the two leftover hamburgers for tonight's dinner. I'll make some baked beans to go with them later this afternoon.
Dean called our grandson Tucker this morning to see if he wanted to play golf this afternoon. They decided to meet at the golf course at 1:30. It looks like it could rain so I hope they are still able to play. If not, they could always come back here so we could all visit.
After we scared the hummingbird off twice yesterday, we were talking about it later. I suggested it might be nice to put the bird feeders out at the lot. I would enjoy coming down there to sit outside near the feeders while I either read or work on the blog. We might do that soon. If he needs me to help him with something I'll be nearby. He submitted a request to Dig Safe to have all of the utility lines marked. He has decided he wants to get the water hooked up. He wants to power wash the concrete around the garage, then he wants to paint it a dark gray to match the metal siding we recently added.
He recently ordered a rubber strip to go on the floor below the overhead door on the north side. For some reason when it rains really hard, it is leaking under the door somewhere. He got that put down last week, but he's still seeing a small amount of water. It was a major improvement, but still somehow a small amount of water is slipping in. He's got a few more ideas and I'm sure one of them will work fine. He's got a good mind for figuring out problems and fixing them.
It's 2:00 and all of a sudden it has started to really thunder and lightening. I hope they get off that course right away. It's also starting to rain. Hopefully, they show up here before too long. We've talked to Tucker but we haven't seen him for awhile so it would be fun to visit with him before he heads home.
Dean sent a text they were at the garage and they would be coming to the RV soon. Good, I'm looking forward to seeing Tucker. They arrived a short time later. They never even made it on the course because it was lightning. So they went to the garage to hit a few golf balls into Dean's net. We thoroughly enjoyed visiting with Tucker and catching up with all he's been doing. I sure wish I had taken a picture of him. Tucker drove Dean back to the garage where he had left the truck. He returned a short time later.
I mixed together the ingredients for the baked beans. They went in the convection oven to bake for 30 minutes. When the beans were close to being done I put some butter in my small frying pan and warmed up the hamburger patties on the lowest heat, turning them after a few minutes. Our dinner was really good. It didn't take long to do the dishes after such an easy meal.
We decided to take a ride to Altamont this evening. We enjoyed just riding around and looking at houses.
It looked like it was raining in the west as we headed that way.
After returning to Bentley, we at the last two pieces of carrot cake. Dean said the icing was perfect. He said I didn't need to change it, but he was glad the cake was gone now as well. While the flavor is great it is way too dry. I hope it turns out better the next time I make it.
After washing the dishes I set down in my chair, and there was our little hummer back at the feeder. He stayed for awhile but not long enough for me to get my phone ready so I could take a picture of him. Hopefully I can get one soon.
It's nearly 8. My eyes are starting to get heavy and I want to read a view of my fellow bloggers blog posts from the past couple of days. Good night all!
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