Saturday, October 3 - 20, 2020

Saturday, October 3, 2020 - We Lead a Busy Life! - Annual Garage Sale; Hair Appt; Picture Time; Whoops - Tonight was Dinner at Mi Pueblo and Game Night

If you have followed the blog for very long, you already know we lead a busy life.  I like to think that it helps keep us active and even though we might occasionally get tired, we enjoy visiting with and/or helping our kids, family and/or friends if we can.

Today is Oswego's annual garage sale.  Misti drove to Oswego last night to stay with Haleigh.  At 6:30am Haleigh called to ask what time I would be there to pick them up to start our "rummaging" for things she can use as part of setting up her new home.  I picked them up shortly before 7.  We found a lamp, dishes, toaster, and a number of other things.  Misti found a couch for her apartment and I found one of these Igloo coolers.  It's either 2 or 3 gallons.  We had one years ago when Dean was coaching summer baseball but it disappeared somewhere over the years.  Every year I have to borrow one from my sister for our annual family reunion, so it will be nice to have one of our own and it was well worth the price of $2.  My only purchase of the day.

  

We finished up about 10.  After dropping them off, I headed home to shower before a hair appointment at noon.  Misti, Haleigh and I are having our pictures taken south of Edna, KS at 3:30.  

Marla was ready for me when I arrived at the shop.  I had her straighten it, 

Dean/Papa took this picture of us before we left.  

The drive to Edna was easy, and then we turned south to follow a paved road for a few miles, then we transferred to graveled roads.  It was quite a drive at a slower pace.  Not being familiar with the road, it seemed a long time before we finally reached our destination ... at least we hoped we had reached it at the end of a long road.  In the text Misti received it said to drive up to the barn at the back of the property so that is what we did.  We only noticed one vehicle parked out front and no one was outside.  A few minutes after we parked we noticed a lady walking toward us.  I asked Misti if that was the lady taking our pictures.  No, it wasn't.  She rolled her window down and we soon found out this was the place, the photographer is just using one of their old trucks to use as a background.  We waited about 15 minutes for her to arrive - by the way we were early, so we didn't mind waiting for her to get set up.  

What a day for the wind to blow and with my hair; it seemed to go everywhere.  I'm not sure what they will end up looking like but I hope she managed to get a few that are good.  Afterwards, we stopped at the convenience store in Edna.  Misti and I tried some of their mini tacos, jalapeno poppers and got something to drink.  Haleigh didn't want anything.  The tacos were good and the poppers were amazing, made a little different tan others I've had.

They dropped me off at Bentley - and this is where I messed up in the previous post.  This is what happens when you do not post daily...days get mixed up.  This is the night we had dinner at our local Mexican restaurant and then went to Cindy and Elmer's to play games.  

Recently the owners cut some trees down that blocked the view in front of this beautiful home.  The home was purchased at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis by R O Deming.  Here is a link providing a little history about Mr. Deming. http://www.ksgenweb.org/archives/1918ks/biod/demingro.html

The home was auctioned/sold in the last few years.  I do not know the current owners.  Over the years it has been used as apartments, a bed and breakfast and prior to the most recent sale, was used as a residence of the last owner, Cecelia Jennings, who lived there for a number of years before her health failed.  

After our dinner, as you already know from yesterday's post we went to my sister Cindy's house to play games.  Friday, our evening consisted of moving Haleigh in to her new home.