THRIFT STORE SHOPPING

Up and out to greet g-daughter IR this morning.
I got chores done and then fixed her a bottle to wash down her breakfast .  She needed a nap so we decided to go thrift store shopping and give her a chance to get a good nap in.
We loaded up her car seat stroller frame and headed out. She was asleep before we got to the bottom of our drive way.
We went to Salvation Army and then to the Humane Society thrift shop. We found some items at each and IR slept through the shopping.
We stopped last at the Amazon return warehouse and she woke up when we got out of the Honda but still was content to ride in the car seat stroller.
We found her a bigger car seat for a very good price and a couple other things in here. They always have very good deals.
I got this nice car seat for 25% off the $85 dollar price tag, a couple seat cushions for our rocking chairs on the front porch and a couple wide angel lens for my big camera all for $89.

We came home for a late lunch and IR discovered she loved my mac and cheese casserole left over from Sunday.
She is on the move now for sure and wants to walk everywhere and clear off all the shelves she can reach.

Daughter and Addie came in after market and IR liked having Addie follow her around and watch TV with her.

Daughter went to get a van from a local dealership to drive overnight to see if she likes driving a van. Her Equinox is really too small for all she hauls around and IR's things also.

The Honda Odyssey van she brought in was very nice but she will have to decide if that's what she wants or a bigger suv.

After they left hubbie and I went to get chores done. 

As I was walking past the garden Rocky and Tipper the dogs were playing and running and they knocked my feet out from under me sending me to the ground so quick my head slammed down so hard my glasses flew off and I saw stars for quite a while. Hubbie who was in the garden came running just knowing I was really hurt badly because I hit the ground so hard.

After the stars left my vision I slowly got up and man was I sore pretty much all over. I finished chores and then we made a trip to Ingles to get baking supplies for in the morning. I felt like if I sat down I wouldn't be able to get up again and I also felt like I needed to walk off the dizzy head feeling.

We got back and I had to lay on the couch for a while until it was time to shut the doors of the chicken houses. I have a very sore place of my left lower back which is the worst place but my right arm and my neck are also pretty sore but nothing like my back which actually takes my breath away each time I move . Hubbie went up to look to see what I might have hit with my lower back but couldn't find anything.

I bought Epson salts and am headed for an early soak in the tub.
D-in-love took g-son and RL to the Otter Creek Park with a group from church today and they look like they had a wonderful time and great weather.

Re and the kids also went along and they looked like they had lots of fun.

Thankful that I didn't get seriously hurt in my fall and thankful for all the blessings of this day.

God Bless and Good Night

PARK PLAY DAY

Up to greet g-son and g-daughter RL this morning . Hubbie got them breakfast and I did chores.
After we all had breakfast we decided to hit the park this morning and hope that the rain holds off.
We stopped by McDonalds on the way to pic up lunch for later.
Both kids had a ball playing today at the Park at Flat Rock.

We took a walk after lunch and looked in the lake for "Nemo" the large gold fish but he was no where to be seen today.

However this little animal lover made friends with this little squirrel and he didn't seem afraid of RL at all.

After over 2 hours at the park RL fell fast asleep as soon as we got in the Honda to head home.

The sky was really dark and it rained on the way home but we didn't get any here at our house.

Hubbie carried RL in and put her on the couch to continue her nap.

Hubbie went outside to get on the lawn mower and I went downstairs to get laundry started.

RL only slept about an hour and then she was up and hungry. A few drops of rain and some thunder brought hubbie inside off the lawn mower so he played with her while I continued my laundry.

I did our normal 3 loads and got everything put away.

RL got one of my hats and posed for this cute picture as she pushed her "baby" around in her stroller.

The sun came back out without any rain here again and hubbie went back to his lawn mowing while RL and I played outside. RL swing for a long time and just acted like she was in deep thought about something.

After d-in-love picked both kids up hubbie and I drove over to daughter's property to see how much work #1 son got done today as he started clearing for her house.

He only worked about 3 hours and we were amazed at how much he got done.

This is a big machine and makes the work quick.

Daughter had to go to Greensboro today for a teaching workshop and one of son-in-love's brother's wives that lives near there took the day off work and kept IR while daughter was at the workshop.

IR got reacquainted with one of her cousins.

They got home earlier this evening thankful for safe travel through the rain storms on the way home.

We got chores done and then had a nice quiet evening.

Thankful for the blessings of this day.

God Bless and Good Night

STORMY SUNDAY and 1978 BEACH TRIP

Up to see what this Sunday will bring. It is cloudy and there was 3/10ths inch of rain in the gauge from overnight showers and the air is really heavy with moisture this morning as I head out to get the chores done.
I came back inside and had breakfast then put some mac and cheese and ham in the crock pot to cook while we're in church and we put the corn on the stove to cook before we left.
Hubbie broke the fresh green beans while I did this so they will be ready to put on the stove when we get home.
We made it to church early and had time to some visiting.
Pastor Craig and everyone was back from the mission trip and church was good today. My cousin Mike Ruff joined church this morning as a candidate for Baptism. I am very happy he has made this decision.
Mike was the cousin I have talked about before that was my mom's youngest sister's only son and when she died he was only 15. My dad turned one of our porches into a bedroom for him and he lived with us until he was 20 years old .
We came home from church and had #1 son's family and Aa's family for lunch and everyone had a nice visit.
The storms rolled in about the time everyone left and hubbie and I both spent the afternoon inside. I worked on the market paperwork I have been putting off and hubbie caught up on his auto race watching on TV.
The thunder and lightening got really close but we only received about another 2/10ths inch of rain by chore time tonight.
I love this time of year when I can finish chores and have a healthy snack without even coming back inside. Today the blueberries were my chosen snack and they are really good and plentiful this year.

The blackberries are also getting ripe but I didn't get around to cleaning out my vines this past winter and they are surely fewer berries because of it.

Pretty soon the grapes will be ready for snacking as they are hanging full.

And another fruit that is really plentiful this year is these Kieffer pears . There is so many pears that the limbs are breaking out of the tree. And the ground under the tree always has an abundance of dropped pears to pick up and feed the chickens.

To continue the July decade series on this slow day is some pics of some of my girl friends, Becki, Sue, my cousin Debbie and I on a beach trip to Myrtle beach in 1978.

Me and Becki...….

 Becki, Debbie and me......

 Becki, Debbie and Sue...…..

Becki, Debbie and me......

 Becki and me.....

 View from our room......

When I think back at some of the things we girls did and the way we drove on these trips I am certain God has a plan for all of us because we are all still alive and well   !!!!!!

I am very thankful for the protection and grace the Lord has always shown me and I never go to sleep any day without a thankful heart and prayerful thanks to my amazing Savior.

God Bless and Good Night

GOOD MARKET AND AFTERNOON STORMS

Early alarm sounded what seemed like way to early this morning.  I did sleep good as I was  really tired when I got to bed last night.
I got chores done while hubbie loaded the Honda. It has rained at some point overnight but not much.
Just enough to wet the grass but not enough to wet the ground under the thicker trees.
The clouds are hanging around so we may get some this morning.
We had a quick breakfast and then headed to market to meet daughter and IR who were already there managing.
Today was a slower sales day than the previous couple of Saturdays but we still had a good day with all the orders we had.
IR found a friend about her age and they sweetly reached out and held hands.

Son-in-love switched his lease car today from the Honda Accord he has had to a CRV. I really like this pearl white color. He needed something bigger and easier to get IR in and out of.

We left market and came straight home. The dark storm clouds are really gathering this afternoon.

Hubbie was going to mow the lawn but couldn't get out with all the thunder as these storms passed by. Unfortunately for our friends that have the blackberry farm they got 15 minutes of large hail stones during the storm that passed to the north of us that ended their blackberry season.

They also have apples and live in the heart of apple country so my heart goes out to all the apple farms that were hit by this hail.

I worked on market paperwork for a while until it had stopped the thunder before I got out to get the chores done.

We picked green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes and dug potatoes for tomorrow's lunch.

Hubbie and I made a trip to Ingles to get some meat for lunch tomorrow. We usually have what is on sale but this week there were no sales so we opted for a ham and mac and cheese casserole lunch to go with all the vegetables.

The clouds were boiling again when we came out of the store.

We came home to more thunder and lightening that made shutting up the chickens quicker tonight.

I did more paperwork and then blogged before heading to bed.

The rain finally reached us about 11:00 with thunder and lightening pretty close.

At least the air has cooled into the upper 60's so hopefully the storms won't be so strong.

Thankful for the blessings of this day.

God Bless and Good Night.

WORKDAY FRIDAY AND MY 1958 4TH BIRTHDAY

Up to another dry hot July day. I got chores done and then had breakfast. As usual on Fridays hubbie and I had to decide what to do first.
We decided I should bake this morning and he would bush hog the pastures before the afternoon storms that were predicted got here.
I baked 12 caramel, 1 pound, 1 blackberry wine cake and I heard hubbie coming up the drive about the time I was getting ready to have a late lunch.

The bottom pastures look almost back to normal after the floods earlier this summer scalded all the grass in the low places out.

This is what it looked like about a month ago.

We had lunch then we did our Friday house cleaning while the clouds took over the sky.
We watched the sky for a while and I worked on getting out my July decade pics since this month is getting close to being over I decided this had to be done.
When it appeared that all the rain had went around us hubbie decided to spray all our garden squash. Seems that every type of squash that we have planted has developed the powdery mildew disease.
Hubbie had some spray left over from a couple years ago when we had the same problem and it helped stop it.

Hopefully we will get the same results this year. The drastic changes in the weather help these diseases get a head start some years.
We did chores and then I spent the evening icing cakes and getting things ready for market.
I will get the decade pics started tonight with the earliest in July 1958 with my 4th birthday pictures.

 I remember this little piano for years and years after this. I don't think it was my birthday gift because I don't think we ever got gifts on our birthdays just cake.

Speaking of birthdays this little beauty passed her 13 month birthday today. Have no idea how daughter got her to wear this big hat and smile this big ????

We escaped the evening without the strong storms that were predicted hopefully the night will be quiet also.
Thankful for the blessings of this day .
God Bless and Good Night