Sisters Here

Good company for two days! Sister’s here and we’re having breakfast in the cool air of my back porch. They know these cinnamon rolls are from Pillsbury. They don’t know I took their picture in their night clothes!

Astrid bought an antique light for her entry. She installed it herself. I love the look.

 

Cousin Susie

Had a special visitor—Cousin Susie Standridge Tennison dropped by to visit. Susie’s father and Granny Renfroe were siblings. And today my sisters are both coming to visit and staying two nights. I’ll buy pizza tonight. Tomorrow night I’ll think of something to fix.

My morning walk was heavenly. The temperature has fell and also the humidity. It’ll get really hot again, but the reprieve is wonderful. I still see a few flowers when I walk in the morning. The white showy blossoms are called Swamp Rose Mallow, a wild hibiscus. It grows in wet areas. This one was on the edge of Galla Lake. The blue bloom is Blue Waterleaf. It’s a wet land plant also  growing out in shallow water.

 

Blessing

It’s raining. My yard was about half brown, but this will help it grow again. If I recall the weather correctly it will be about 93 today. The last 10 days we’ve been to upper 90’s. Glad I’m not a farmer.

Laura starts back to school Monday. My Harrison kids start the 11th. Ada will be in first grade. Clayton starts to work this weekend at Walmart pulling groceries. This is his first job! He’ll be a senior. He is going to the College in their town after graduation from high school. He has a scholarship to that College. The hospital at Harrison built a new birthing wing and he was the first baby born there.  He won a prize for it—a full scholarship the day he arrived in this world. He’s majoring in something to do with computers I think. 

Home Again

Ada is back home. I tried to think of things to do other than Bluey. I did have one 100 piece puzzle of the USA. She put it together. 

I fixed pancakes, but she just had a little jelly with them.

When we bought her tennis shoes for school, she said what really wanted is a new dress. Auntie Laura came in the afternoon and they shopped for dresses. Maribel is just a play dress. She tried each dress on for me. 

This one with the belt was my favorite.

These two were soft. The black with hearts had sequins on the hearts to brush one of two ways. It had a shirt. It’ll be a school dress. Ada wears shorts under all her dresses. They found new underwear and socks too. 

I’m back to doing not much again. I’m really good at that.
 

Baby Cousins

Sigrid invited Ada to swim yesterday. They are both special girls—my baby granddaughters. Ada feel asleep as soon as we finished reading her bedtime book.

Yesterday morning, I went to exercise class and Ada attended their day care. Then Laura took us shopping for school shoes at my favorite shoe store. They were having a big sale. Afterwards we had ice cream at Johnnys’s ice cream store. He was one of Pop’s friends.

Logan sprayed down both sides of my little lane. I have been wanting to but it’s so hot that I have put it off. The trigger on my sprayer is leaking I need to get a new trigger.    

I can tell I am 75. I am so tired just having company. I hate tv and I let her watch a lot. Something called Bluey.  Makes me feel bad about myself.  It’s almost 100 and too hot to do outside stuff.

 

Company

I have company. Ada is staying two nights.  We’re both excited!

 

New Neighbor

Before 7:00 yesterday morning, I headed to get a can of diesel for my Kubota lawn mower. I had the truck turned down my driveway and there in the corner of the Meadow I spied Kittie Wells with her little baby. I called Logan and Astrid to come and drove on.

They checked and thought the new one was a little lady. That meant we could keep her. Logan said they were thinking of naming her/him Possum after ole George Jones. Johnny Cash is the sire.  I thought the name was perfect. She’s even the color of an opossum.

Kittie was far from the water tank so I carried her two buckets of water. When she left her birthing spot I scooped up the rest of the afterbirth and hauled it away on the mule. Didn’t want it to attract coyotes or buzzards.

Astrid and Logan carried Possum to a spot away from the tree line and closer to the barn and water. They watched as the big horses met their new pasture mate.  Aunt Siggie came to say hello to our new baby late in the evening. I’m excited to watch Possum grow up in Galla Meadow!

 

School Days

Sky Lark Cafe

Last evening Eric took Laura out to supper at my favorite restaurant—Sky Lark Cafe! The food looked superb as usual!  By early August, they’ll both be back to work each day. Eric teaches 7th grade language and Laura is a speech pathologist for a school district.

I think this is a salad. I could eat it.

Eric nearly always orders steak. I think this is ribeye.

This salad looks like it has walnuts and raisins!

It’s really hot here. Nearly 100 degrees daily with humidity. I walk before 7 if I can get around. This week I saw the Indigo Bunting in the fence row. He rewarded me for walking with a song.  He is a small seed-eating bird in the cardinal family. They migrate from southern Canada to northern Florida during the breeding season, and from southern Florida to northern South America during the winter. The Indigo Bunting often migrates by night, using the stars to navigate. Its habitat is farmland, brush areas, and open woodland.

 

Another Off Day

Yesterday I mowed my yard again. I wore my trusty sombrero that Sister Helen brought me from Arizona. Earlier this week I burned my pile of limbs before it was too dangerous. Some of my yard was already brown.  Sombreros don’t just have wide brims for shade, they also are designed with a high crown to provide insulation and constructed of straw to make them breathable.  Sisters often think of the best gifts. I love my sombrero👒 

Ada did this. Erin saw it and Ada said “ I’m making her an Indian”.  They used bleach and cleaned the doll. Ada had marked on the floor at camp too.  Erin talked about defacing things—floors, walls, toys. I wasn’t a great Mom. I did a lot of lecturing. They turned me off I’m sure. 

My Grandson Clayton made cookies this week. I think it’s great for boys to cook and help clean the kitchen.

I had another funeral today. It throws me off schedule. I went to yoga, grocery shopped, got a hair cut, and then a funeral. Just now did Wordle, connections,  and the waffle puzzle.  Finally got my blog entry on here. I thought about just skipping it but it’d break my streak. I still have the paper cyrptogram and crossword to complete. I bought chicken feed today too. Must take it to the storage barrels. Tomorrow I’m be back to my usual sitting most of the day.
 

Stand Up

Laura got a stand up desk at school. Too much sitting is not good for us we know. Maintenance would have assembled it for her, but why wait. She went to her office and did it herself. Looks complicated to me but she got it done. The desk is hydraulic and will move high and lower. She had to have a new chair too if she did need to have a seat. It’s more a stool.

Laura works with children with speech problems. The guidelines have changed. She follows the children and works with”within” the class not in pullouts. It sounds difficult to me. This semester she is finishing a degree in educational leadership. All she lacks is her internship. 

 

Ironweed

Ironweed is blooming. It’s called Ironweed because of its tough stem. Another name it goes by is Veronica. Sister Fleta and I used these long plants for stick horses when we were young. We galloped all over and back again pretending to be cowgirls. We made our own toys!  It’s around 100 degrees here so the blooms don’t last long.

Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross,

To see a fine lady upon a white horse;

Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,

And she shall have music wherever she goes.

Astrid saw this butterfly in her flowers.

Laura shared a vine ripened tomato from her garden with me. I fixed a blt. 

My purslane is blooming still. The porch gives it some shade. The Dr. changed my blood pressure med to one that won’t produce a cough. I hope it works well. The other lowered my numbers but the cough was irritating.  This one is Losartan. The other was enalapril. I don’t have real high blood pressure but having a stroke sure frightens me.