I was wide awake at 4:15 this morning. It was 70F inside and 65F outside. It was also raining. I've been wearing my ear plugs every night. It's nice. The rain doesn't really bother me, but when it is heavy it is pretty loud in the RV. I didn't notice it at all, until I took the ear plugs out. It rained until 7:30 or so. We talked about walking but the forecast didn't look too good so we passed.
Since I had several things I wanted to get done this morning I was okay with that. After reading my devotionals (I missed yesterday), I did my morning chores before taking a shower. I was getting dressed when my phone rang. It was my hairdresser, Marla! Yea!!!! She had been trying to get in touch with me but didn't have my phone number. She called my sisters to get it. (I learned later that she might have had to call more than one - since Cindy had a missed call from her - but she didn't see it until after work). Marla wanted to know if I would be free to come to the shop now. I said sure. I hurried a little faster to finish getting ready and went with a wet head. I did take time to run a comb through it!
I rushed out so fast I forgot my mask - you need to wear one at the hairdressers, but she was prepared and fixed me up with one. It was good to see her and Cindy, the other hairdresser in her shop. It's rare to go to her shop without seeing someone you know. Today was no different, the Brown's (Chris and Dee) were there. I was anxious to catch up with Marla. The last time I was in her shop was January just before we left Oswego for the winter.
I've mentioned this before, Marla and her husband own property across the street from our lot. They are already living there in what will eventually be her new salon. They plan to build their home in the near future. We visited about that a bit. They will be good neighbors. Their son Broc who did the work to our garage lives across the street from us on the south, and Marla is to the north, with a road between their properties. The road T's and does not go through our lot.
Speaking of Broc, Dean saw him at the hardware store Saturday morning. Broc told when he stepped out early the day before he noticed several deer on our property. There are quite a bit of deer around the boundaries of Oswego. We would occasionally see them at our last house, and my sisters in the north part of town see them often. All of these have wooded areas nearby.
After Marla finished with me, I left and headed to the garage. While I was getting my hair cut my phone rang, so when I reached the garage I checked to see who called. It was my friend Linda. Linda, our mutual friend Peggy, and I have been friends for many years. Before we left for our camp outing last week we tried to find a date we could all get together, but last minute planning doesn't work too well. Monday evening I sent Linda a text that we had decided to stay in Oswego through June 2. Since I had nothing scheduled during that time I was hoping it might work out for them as well. Her call was to let me know we would meet Wednesday afternoon at her house, out in her screened in patio - to do our social distancing. Linda and her husband moved to a new to them home the end of December. They were in the middle of remodeling, painting, etc. when we left. This will be the first time we've been together in at least 6 months. We'll have a lot to catch up on.
We visited a bit then I headed back to Bentley around 11:30. I had changed the sheets so I put those in the dryer and set down to look at my list of things I hoped to do today. About 15 minutes later I heard a knock on the door. It was my dear friend Betsy. She was in the hardware store when Dean stopped to get something. She asked about me and he told her she should stop to see me before she heads home (Chetopa). We visited for 40-45 minutes, maybe longer. It was so good to see her. We had a great visit catching up with each other. I'm so glad she and Dean happened to be in the same place at the same time!
For lunch, Dean ate the remaining chicken thigh that our neighbor brought over last night, along with a few veggies and I ate the last hot dog. We visited for awhile before he left to go back to the garage around 2-2:30.
After Dean left I went to Misti's to visit with her for awhile. She has been working at the golf course while waiting to start her physical therapy assistant job. She was originally set to start her new career just prior to the pandemic and everything was put on hold. Now that things are opening up, she is scheduled to do her orientation next week. Since it was so wet today I thought it might be a good time to catch her for a visit. She reminded me of ordering Haleigh's senior pictures and I'm glad she did. She is going to include mine with hers, since there was a minimum purchase well beyond what I needed. I asked, but they still have not rescheduled Haleigh's graduation yet. (Update: she sent me a text later that it will be Saturday, June 20 at noon.) Yea!
When I returned to Bentley I made a couple of calls. I visit with one of our former Mayor's occasionally and I gave him a call. No answer, so next I tried to call my cousin Patty who lives in Oklahoma. Again, no answer. I called my sister Cindy and we visited for awhile, before Philip returned my call. We visited for a few minutes and by then it was about time for Dean to return from the garage.
I sent Todd a text to be sure it was not a problem to stay another week, before walking to the office to drop a check off. We plan to leave for Wichita the morning of June 3. Our newest granddaughter Hayden Grace will have arrived Monday, June 1. Dad, Jarred will be staying at the hospital with Mom, Andrea. We will not be able to see them until they are home. Unless they say differently, we will wait until the 4th so they have a chance to settle in and Emerson has time with her new sister, before we take a peek at Hayden. We hope to spend some time with Heath/Casey and our grandsons while we are there as well. We will leave Wichita on Sunday, June 7, and return to Oswego for a week, since I need to have have lab work then a follow up appointment at Vinita's Cherokee Health Clinic.
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| The sky as I left to walk a check up to the office. Dean barely made it home and the rain let loose. |
I fixed spaghetti for dinner, then did the dishes. Since I didn't accomplish much of anything today (althought it was great catching up with friends and family) I did take time to pull out the specific things I plan to do tomorrow, and made a list. I probably won't get them all done, but at least I won't forget anything.....well, unless it didn't make the list. 😊
While everything that occurred today was not in my plan, it was a great day and nothing I had on my list was so critical it could not wait until tomorrow. Family and friends are important!
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