Wednesday May 20th 2015

 

Getting in a lot of trimming and weed whacking.  The work isn’t really hard but after a few hours my back hurts.  Not complaining cause if you don’t hurt a little it means you haven’t done a lot I guess.

It has been cool, yesterday was nice and today cloudy and when I finished doing the trimming and wee whacking it started raining so I figured I would come to McDonald’s and get on the computer.  When I went out to the car it was spitting little ice crystals.  I guess that is called sleet.  A little larger and it would be hail (I guess).

The goslings aren’t yellow anymore, They are kind of a dingy grey color but still stick real close to mom and dad!

Guess I will try to post this and say Bye Y’all…

Monday May 18th 2015

 

Well the next couple of blogs are from some time ago when I probably couldn’t publish them.  Got some wrong months mixed in with the May blog.

Went to church Sunday night and the kids choir put on a musical and they did pretty good!

They are called the Agape League…

They did very good for a bunch of young kids.  They remembered the songs and their lines,  Very interesting….

Time to say Bye Y’all….

Friday September 12th 2014

 

The hot weather is gone for now, it rained almost all day yesterday even though it was still pretty warm.  I decided to bake cookies yesterday, because it was cooler, and I had a recipe from a lady here that I wanted to try.  Well, she couldn’t find the recipe and I don’t really like following recipes anyway so I tried it on my own.  Well, they are soft but I think I used to much flower, not enough sugar and not enough peanut butter, but used to much salt.  They aren’t to bad though.  I think we will still eat them but next time I will change the recipe just a tad….

I think they actually look better than they taste.

Wednesday night bible study was actually pretty good, got some laughs.  We were supposed to do chapter 12 of Proverbs but only got a little over half way through.  Had lots of discussion which is what I like. Pastor Randy got going and I think he had everyone laughing about a “voodoo” doll and some of the happenings at the hospital.  Quite an evening.  I will finish up the chapter next Wednesday.  Seems like when I lead a lesson it never gets done on time or I have to split it into two different nights.

I will tell you that I am sitting here shivering!  I get cold easy but I think the temperature is only about 65 outside and probably the same in here. Before the week is over I will have to us the heat.  I don’t like to be chilly!

Not much more to say so I guess I will get out of here…..Bye Y’all…

Monday April 20th 2015

 

Guess we will be heading to Springfield, Il today.  We have had a really good time with Don and Cheryl.  We put lots of puzzles together.  In fact we have put together seven puzzles in seven days.  Two puzzles each have one piece missing but the other five were fine.  The puzzles only have three hundred pieces so we got them together pretty fast.  I will put a picture of one here…

Gave us a lot of time to play and talk…

Here is another picture of us eating!  Went to Kline’s for dinner. Really good food and if you can see the display case between me and Linda, they have some of the biggest cakes I have ever seen, they have to be close to a foot tall.  Lots of other stuff also,  like pies and cobblers

Had some beautiful sunrises…

Really a lot of red in the morning.  Today is Monday and we didn’t have the bright colors but it is going to be a beautiful day.

Got to get things ready to go, will have to wake Linda up after awhile.  Don and Cheryl both have things going on this morning so I’m not sure if we will leave before or after them.  Probably after.

Time to say Bye Y’all…..

Sunday May 17th 2015

 

We have had a lot of rain the last few days!  Today is warm and humid and tonight a cold front is supposed to come in and the next four days will only get into the 60s.  Guess it could be worse.  If the wind doesn’t blow very hard it will be nice.

Went to see Sr. Margaret Anne yesterday and had a very good visit.

My sister is recovering from knee surgery.  Had her cast taken off Friday and it is a little sore now.  Sr. Louis Anne is in the back with Linda and I.  Had a nice lunch (Subway) and a great piece of rhubarb upside down cake, yummy!

Not a lot going on here, been weed whacking and doing a little trimming.

Went to church at HTBC this morning, the kids are going to have a concert tonight and had a little preview this morning…

I think tonight will be good, they did a good job this morning.

Got a picture of where we are camped…

The lake is probably about 4 or 5 acres, people have been catching a lot of fish and a neighbor gave us some blue gill.  Very good!

Well, I will post this when we get to McDonald’s because we don’t have Wifi here.  Sure miss it sometimes but we will get it when we get back to Missouri and Texas.

Time to say Bye Y’all…

Cinco De Mayo or May 5th 2015 (Tuesday)

 

Well, this is Tuesday already.  I have been busy painting picnic tables.  Painted 30 of them. It was kind of a back breaker but I’m glad that they are done….

OK here is a picture of the picnic tables done, finished, complete, well as far as I’m concerned…

OK, I inserted these after I had written the blog so things are a little out of order. The next paragraph goes with the first picture of the tables…

These are before I started painting, well the ones that are farthest away are done. Finished the last four yesterday afternoon.  The sun came out and warmed up so they were dry.  Rained the night before so everything was pretty wet.  I decided to mow around our camper then Joe said I may  as well get the big mower out and finish it.  It is a pretty good sized zero turn and I used it once last year and it wasn’t around campers. It actually went quite well and I decided to mow the field behind us.  By the time I was done I had become a little more familiar with it.  By the end of summer I should be proficient!

It rained again last night and got quite cool.  Hope it warms up. 

Well, I have to make a decision about my license and the plates on our vehicles.  Don’t want to keep them in Missouri anymore and I really don’t want to license them in Texas, so I think Illinois will be the answer.  Voting will be the hard thing because we will never be here in November, guess absentee voting will be the only thing we can do.  Missouri was terrible with the absentee voting, won’t get into that.

Guess it is time to say Bye Y’all…

Sunday May 3rd 2015

 

Well, here is another post on my blog.  I have been working at Leisure Lake Campground for about a week not and can tell I am sure out of shape.  Just painting picnic tables make me quite sore…

These as you can tell are Canadian Geese with their little ones.  I will try to find a picture of the picnic tables….

OK, here they are, I have all painted except for four of them.  Next good day I should be able to finish them up.

Going to put in a picture of a sunrise.  Beautiful for sure….

We have had some very cool days, at least in the morning but summer is coming. 

Going to say Bye Y’all….