Open windows, garbage and sick friend

We opened all the windows this morning, so good to get nice fresh air inside!  The garbage man fooled us and cam by about 4 hours earlier than usual, now we have to be prepared in the future.  Oh well, he gets twice the amount next week.  We were not the only ones that didn't have our garbage out!  Later he came around again, maybe he had complaints.

Then it was clean the house time, might be more fun it it was dirtier.  We always have a ton of junk to put away.

Last night we found out a friend of ours is gravely ill and only has days to live.  We knew she was sick but not that she was close to death.  She was always at our RV park clubhouse either volunteering or playing cards.  Her friendly presence will be missed.


I love this, one little girl didn't want to be a princess and chose to be a hot dog!

Family time

Sunday means breakfast out for us - we ate at Bakers Square.  The have a good, big breakfast - I couldn't eat all of mine even after eating too much.  We went home and read the newspaper and did some stuff around the house.

We went to Panera with family to celebrate our daughters birthday and then had everyone over to our house for cake and ice cream.  Always good to get together!!!

We will be watching this, it appears our RV Park may in the mist of this storm.  It is just on the west edge of the green area by Spring Hill.

Rain and Chinese food

Again today the sun was shinning when we got up but slowly turned to cloudy and rain.  We got a good rain in the afternoon.   We did some reading and computer stuff and made a trip to Cub Foods for a birthday cake for tomorrow to celebrate our daughters birthday.

We ate at a favorite, Hong Wong.  Good to see more people there, it has been kind of slow the last couple times.  I sure wouldn't want it to close.  It could stand some redecorating, I have been going there so long I remember when they redecorated last time.


I know a dog that could use this!

Birthday, light fixture and donuts

The day started out bright and sunny and then I looked out a bit later and it was cloudy and rainy and remained rainy for the rest of the day.  We went to Verizon to get Don's phone number and contacts changed from his old flip phone which hardly worked anymore to my old smartphone which is good and will be better when we get it a new battery.  Finally he enters the smartphone age!  We had to wait awhile and knew that was a possibility.  We watched some people come into the store and when told they would have to wait turned around and walked out.  A couple people had "just a quick question" but still had to wait.  I don't think there are any quick questions at Verizon.

Being it is National Donut day Don stopped at Cub Foods and picked up some donuts.  We also did a tour around the outside of the new HyVee store to see if it was open, it was not but looked like it won't be too long.  In the afternoon Don installed our new entry light, now he needs 2 LED bulbs alike.  We went to Menards for the bulbs later and the light looks great, really lights up the entry.

It is our oldest daughter's birthday, a decade birthday.  They are in Las Vegas celebrating!  She said it was 85 degrees at 8:20 this morning.  110 degrees is their expected high, good everything is air conditioned!  We did a drive-by check of the kids, they saw us as they were getting into the truck and caught up with us.  They were on their way to eat at Appleby's.

Happy Birthday Sheila!

Flowers and light

Today we went in search of "Mexican Heather" (cuphea) a favorite plant of mine, to put in the gravel by our deck rail.  The first two places didn't have any but of course Bachmans had some.  Their plants are always of the best quality and guaranteed for a year.   In the afternoon Don planted them, they already add a nice color.  I also got a pot of Inpatients to round off the flowers.

While out shopping we got a new light for our entry way.  The old one has a light socket that doesn't work and is ugly anyway.  We got a nice silver and frosted glass one.

It is a beautiful day, we read the newspaper while sitting on the deck and I continued reading my new book (on my Kindle) "Rise of the Rocket Girls" - a true story how women were a major asset in getting the USA into space.

Then, in an effort to actually get something done, I scrubbed out the shower.  Long overdue.  We had waffles for dinner at home.

Mexican heather:

June 1, 2016

We ate breakfast out and then went to Walmart and Cub Foods for groceries.  There were so few people at the stores we wondered if the new HyVee had opened but didn't go check it out.  That meant we got right in and out.  Didn't need much.

Spent the afternoon reading and on the computer catching up.  We got sandwiches from Arby's for dinner.