Monday, June 1, 2020 - Morning Walk; #16 Arrives; Busy Day

Monday, June 1, 2020 - Morning Walk; #16 Arrives; Busy Day


After only one cup of coffee we headed to the park at 6:30.  It's already warm.  We talked about coming out earlier after today.  We may need to get up and go straight to the park, then have our coffee.

The sun was shining across the road.  The grass and trees are so pretty with the sun on them.

Sunshine....on my shoulders makes me happy!

These slipper slides have been in Riverside Park for many, many years.  I know they have been here at least 60+ years, that's how long ago I started sliding on them.  I'm sure it was many years before that. 

The slipper slides are being put to rest soon.  They are being replaced with new playground equipment.  I want to remember all of the fun times my sisters and I, our kids and our grandkids have enjoyed sliding down these.  It was one of the big highlights of coming to the park.  Times change, some for the better....maybe this is one of them.

While we were walking Dean received a text message about golf today.  He will be heading to the golf course after breakfast.  He really enjoys it and I'm glad he has the chance to play when we are here.  He' bought a membership for several years now and he's never failed to get his money's worth from it.  

At 7:51 we recevied a text from Jarred letting us know that he, Andrea and Emerson  welcomed Emerson's new sister - Hayden, (grandchild #16 for us) to their family circle.  Of course she is just beautiful.  Her and mom are doing great.  I will share some pictures in a few days when we see her later this week.

Dean left for the golf course and I got busy.  I put the vacuum to work, changed the sheets, and over the course of the day did a couple of loads of laundry.  We will be leaving Hillside RV Park Wednesday morning for Wichita.  We are anxious to meet that new grandbaby and let Emerson tell us all about her!  

I had several phone calls to make, two were to cancel reservations I made earlier this week for RV Parks, due to changes in plans.  We made an appointment with Safelite to have a chip fixed in the truck's windshield last week.  Originally I gave them the RV Park address for our location.  With almost every site in the park full, I wasn't sure they would be able to find a place to park, so I asked them to change the location to our lot.  Dean will be there already, so it makes sense.  In addition while I had them on the phone I asked if they could fix two chips in our car windshield as well.  It's free if we carry full coverage, but we only carry liability on my car.  Since they are here it's the perfect time to do it as well.  Fortunately, they had time to do it at the same time.

I finished up yesterday's blog and posted it just a little while before Dean returned from golf.  I made ham and cheese tortilla wraps for lunch, followed by the last of the peach crisp.  Yummm it was good!

My sister Cindy and I made arrangments to meet with my friend Renee this afternoon to see her garden.  I've been out there a few times and it is truly amazing.  She has posted several pictures lately and I knew Cindy would enjoy it too.  I picked her up and we made our way through the countryside to her house.  

This is the most unique clemetis I have ever seen.  Unfortunately, this picture does not do it justice.  

Gorgerous purple and white!  Go KState! 

She and her husband Bill reworked this entire area earlier this spring.  

I can just imagine sitting out on the front porch here, watching the birds and the bees having a good old time while they visit the gardens and trees.  What a wonderful setting!

I love the fern in this and how it looks like a minature tree to this little Fairy Village.  Her grandkids have helped provide some of the characters.  What a fun idea for them to be a part of!

Another wonder that I saw her post on Facebook recently.  They had to cut this tree down.  They decided to make it into a little Hobbit type house.  Her grandkids got involved in this too. 

Renee, thanks for welcoming us today.  We really enjoyed our visit and your gardens.  

After we left, Cindy mentioned she needed to go to the grocery store, so I told her I'd just take her by since I needed to get a few things myself, then I'd take her home.  From her house, I drove by the lot to talk to Dean.  He was almost finished painting the back part of the garage foundation.  Since I still had the groceries in the car (cold items), I didn't stay too long.  He is golfing with our grandson Tucker this evening at 5:15.  He made it back in time to change clothes and leave again.

Before he returned from the garage I had started entering our expenses in to our monthly spreadsheet for May.  I knew my grocery bill was going to be higher, but I was shocked at how much higher.  A little of that way my own fault as I had let my pantry get low.  When I replenished those items this month, many of the items were priced much higher, so I got a a double whammy in my pocketbook!  

I was going to make a sauage pizza for dinner, but Dean said when he gets home we'll just grab something locally instead.  I didn't argue!  I started working on the blog and made it this far when he came home.  Todd stopped by soon afterwards to get the desserts I set aside for him yesterday.  We visited for awhile, before we left to get dinner.  

As we left the park - this was tonight's leftovers from the sunset.

We finally decided on a pizza, I ordered it online and picked it up about 12 minutes later.  Enough time to drive through the park and get some more sunset pictures from the bluff.

No wind this evening.

Beautiful skies tonight.

I happened to look towards the park as we left the overlook and I saw this owl on top of some park equipment.  It's not real clear.  I was trying to focus in to get a better picture when a car came through the park with its light shining right on the owl - and he took off.

The owl I saw.

We headed back to Bentley and enjoyed our pizza, watched a little TV and headed to bed.  I