Wednesday, April 29, 2020 - Thursday, April 30, 2020

Wednesday, April 29, 2020 - 

The temperatures dropped last night after the storm moved through.  It was 53F this morning.  Without any heat on overnight I was surprised it was still 66F in Bentley.  

After turning my Chromebook on and logging in, I was able to pour my first cup of coffee, enjoying it while I read my morning devotional.

For the first time in several days, maybe even a week or more, I read the blog posts that I follow after my quiet time.  I've missed a few posts over the past several days.  I enjoy reading each one of them, seeing what longtime blog friends are doing, and getting to know  new bloggers with each new post.  Over the past two months I've added several new blogs to my list.  About half of the blogs that I follow post daily, and the other half are more sporadic with their posts.

Our forecast for this week goes from a high of 68F today to a high of 83F by Saturday, when more storms are to move in.  After that the extended forecast calls for 70's through May 13. I had to turn the air conditioner on for 2-3 hours yesterday, and I was glad it was on when the rain started, otherwise it would have been awful stuffy in here when we had to shut the door and windows.  I think the high was 78, however with the humidity, it felt much warmer.

Speaking of humidity - I have dumped our dehumidifier twice now.  We have used it for 4 weeks.  The container is about 20% full again.  When it is full, a light comes on and it automatically shuts the dehumidifier off.  

I sent my daughter a text to let her know we'd be in the park around 7 if she wanted to walk with us this morning.  Before we asked her to walk with us this week, we had no set schedule to arrive, but I like the idea of going at a certain time everyday.  We may just stick to it.  I just noticed the temperature has dropped from 53 to 51.  I believe it might be a little cooler on our walk this morning.

We arrived at the park a minute or two before 7, as the sun was well on it's way up. 

I didn't look at this picture until later.  I'm not sure what the green spot is.  

Misti pulled up not long after we arrived.  It was a much cooler morning today and the wind was blowing.  We've enjoyed visiting with Misti on these walks.

Northwest wind and cool!

It seemed like in no time we had walked our two miles.  When Dean checked our speed later we walked the second mile in 17.5 minutes.  We'd like to get back to 17 minute miles, and eventually we will.  Misti really helps us pick up the pace.

After our walk we returned to Bentley.  I made our shakes, then washed the dishes.  My left hip has been bothering me the past few days and today it's really giving me fits.  It does not hurt if I am standing or walking, unless I look or reach up.  I cannot sit in my recliner for more than a few minutes at a time.  I am sitting at the desk now and I feel fine.  Getting up or down can be a little uncomfortable.  I think I've been sitting too much.  I try to get up and move quite a bit during the day, but working on the puzzle and the pictures requires a lot of sitting.  Between the two it might be what caused it.  .

I took some things to Cindy around 11.  I made it home before Dean, then started our lunch.  He enjoyed watching Gunsmoke and I spent my time playing FreeCell on my phone when we were finished eating.  After lunch, I washed another load of jeans.  Dean had several pairs of pants/jeans/shorts from his previous working days.  He saved them all since they were either new or almost new.  I'm glad he did.  In the six years since we retired we have only bought him one new pair of jeans.  He brought two pairs back from the garage today, a size smaller than what he's been wearing!  So proud of him.

After lunch and watching two episodes of Gunsmoke, he headed to the garage.  With the wind gusts, it feels much cooler than the outside temperature reading of 65F.  I'm cold in Bentley, so I just turned on the fireplace to try and take the chill off.  I called the chiropractor to make an appointment.  I will see him at 2:30 this afternoon.  Hopefully by tomorrow I'll notice a big difference

I have not seen the hummer yet today.  When I was at Cindy's I was watching their hummers "fighting" with each other.  They have so many orioles coming to their feeders.  It is so much fun to watch them.  They also had tanagers at the feeder.  

Notice the oriole on the lower right window - he/she wanted to come inside.

They have several orioles and tanagers coming and going to this feeder the entire time I was there.  Cindy found this candle holder, I believe at a flea market, and converted it to jelly holders for the orioles.  They go through several jars of jelly during the summer and into early fall.

After my appointment with the chiropractor I dropped by Cindy's once more.  Her daughter Melissa puts wording on shirts and various other materials.  I asked her to make me a shirt.  She mailed it to her mom, so I was anxious to get it.  I stayed and visited for awhile before heading home. 

Shirt Melissa made me.

I've decided I'm going to have her make me several more summer shirts, and they have to be out of the same material.  It is so soft.  I almost exclusively wear t-shirts daily, and I need some new ones.  It's hard to find anything I like in the stores.  One thing I need to do soon, is go through all the clothes we have in Bentley and eliminate a few.  Dean also needs everyday T-shirts.  A project for next week maybe?


I wanted something easy for dinner tonight.   Breakfast burritos sounded good and they were very filling.

After dinner I visited via phone with my sisters Crystal and Jody for awhile.  I miss our weekly get together's on Sunday afternoons.  We may have our first one with all four of us attending since back in December.  Cindy has a nice screened in porch (where you saw the orioles above).  If it's nice enough, she will open the windows and we'll set out there to keep our distance.

I am standing at the island as I type this, but finding it hard to concentrate with the TV on tonight.  I'll proof it in the morning.  Good night all!

I am so thankful for my sisters!  God gave me some of the very best!



Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 

I slept until 5:15 this morning.  We went to bed early.  I was tired from the long day of my hip hurting.  I sleep wonderfully though.  I can set at the desk and I do pretty good, but I just can't set in my recliner.  

We walked again this morning.  The wind was pretty calm.  Misti didn't join us today.  For the most part the walk didn't bother me.  There was once or twice it hurt, but it went away almost as quickly as it came.  

We returned to Bentley.  I made our shakes.  Dean is going to golf today so, as soon as he finished his shake he headed upstairs to change clothes.  I did the dishes.  Yesterday Marc called looking for a trailer to use for their move from the old house to the new one.  I had let him know my Uncle had one.  He said he'd let me know if they would need it.  This morning  he called to say he needed the trailer.  I called my Uncle and he said that would be fine.  When Marc was just outside of Oswego, I drove up to Todd's shop.  He has the trailer here at the RV Park.  Marc showed up a short time later.  Todd helped him back up to the hitch.  We visited for a few minutes, then he headed back to Parsons.

I stayed an visited with Todd for quite awhile about a myriad of things before heading back to the RV.  It was almost noon, but then I remembered there was no need hurrying as Dean probably would not be back until 1-1:30 since he was golfing.

I needed to get birthday presents in the mail to two of our grandsons - Gideon and Sam.  After addressing both of the envelopes I laid them next to Dean's chair so he could sign them when he gets back later.  I'll mail them this afternoon.  I also needed to send a memorial to the First Methodist Church in Pryor, OK.  My sisters and I wanted to donate to Aunt Naomi's church.  She was very active there and had been for many, many years.

I still had two hot dogs left in the freezer.  I heated those up for our lunch when Dean returned.  We put them on the wheat tortilla wraps.  I really doctored mine up -- with mustard, sauerkraut, pickle relish and cheese. It was sooooooo good!

Dean left a short time later for the lot.  I told him I might be down later to take some pictures of him while he works.  At 2:00 I headed to the Post Office so I could mail the cards, and a package to our grandson in New York.  I've done pretty good this morning, until I started going up the steps at the Post Office.  By the time I made it to the top the pain had lessened a bit.

After leaving the Post Office I headed to Cindy's.  We visited for an hour or so, before I headed to the garage.  This is what I found:

This man is so happy - he loves to mow!

We walked the property again.  We have a project we may start work on while we are here in Oswego.  

From there I headed back to the RV.  We had planned to have Misti and Haleigh over tonight but Haleigh had to work, so we'll pick another night next week.  I think Dean and I might order something for dinner.  I'm just not up to cooking right now.  If I don't wake up feeling better in the morning I will be back at the chiropractor.  I have spent a fair amount of time standing today.  I feel pretty good but when I set down on Cindy's couch I had to find a way to maneuver around so I was not hurting.

When I returned to Bentley, I turned the fan on upstairs to help pull the cool air through the windows and downstairs, plus I put on the fantastic fan to help cool things downstairs.  I closed the back window where the sun was streaming in and in no time it had cooled off in here.

Next thing I knew the hummer was back and she was eating quite a bit.  They were very skittish the first day.  If anyone slightly moved, off she would go.  Tonight she doesn't seem to be bothered at all.  She must have been hungry....and then....just like that, she was gone.

Dean returned from the garage a short time later. He mowed today and wanted to take a shower.  The grass does seem to find him.  Lol!  

At 5:40 I called in an order to MJ's in Altamont, KS.  They had a special tonight of two cheeseburgers, homemade french fries, drinks (Pepsi & Dr. Pepper) and a side order of fried okra.  It was all delicious and we ate way too much. 

Afterwards we took a ride around town, then traveled south of town to the Altamont Lake and RV sites.  

On the way we passed the farmhouse my step-dad's parents lived in, Grandma and Grandpa Long.  I wish I would have thought to take a picture of it, as some of the family follow the blog.

Altamont Lake - RV park across the water.

Second RV park includes sewer hookups.

As we drove down 11,000 Road back to Oswego, we noticed a deer in the pasture to our left.  Dean slowed and as I took this picture two more deer ran past the one that just stood and looked at us.  I was able to take this picture of them.

Three deer near the tall tree toward your left.  Enlarge the picture if you cannot see them.


 We returned to the RV Park and enjoyed this sunset!

Evening Sunset

I'm feeling a little better this morning so hopefully I won't need another appointment tomorrow.  Good night!  It's been a long two days but I'm feeling more like myself.  Moving a lot today has helped.