Monday July 23rd
It is getting light out a bit later now and I still wake up most of the time around 5:30 AM. I am up, and let Herbie out and of course then he wants his morning treat and then he goes and grabs one of his many babies and makes a b-line for the bed and has some more down time..
I made myself some tea and then turned on the TV early early morning news and checked my e-mail.. Later, when Dan got up I made some breakfast and then I started my laundry.. Dan went to get the mail, and he came home with this BIG BOX..
What a surprise it was. Our friends from Indiana, Ralph and Barb, had sent a Thank You gift for staying with us over the 4th.. It was a piece of yard art for our new garden.. A Peacock, made of copper with different color stones on the head and feather. Oh it was so pretty and thoughtful.
Boy do I enjoy having my washer and dryer in my house. I do not look forward to having to go to laundromat when we are in Texas. Did a few other things around the house and the rest of the day was puttsing around.
Tuesday July 24th
Today was a busy day.. It was Herbie's Grooming day.. We take him into Escanaba which is quite a distance, but the groomer does a great job, and she has an awesome shop.. So that is about a 2 hours that he is with her. In the meantime we went tot the bread store and stocked up on bread and then we were to meet some friends from Wisconsin who have been up in the Upper Peninsula, and were heading back home. Bill and Kelly we met maybe 10-12 years ago and they are friends of our friends in The Wisconsin Dells area.. We had not seen them for about 5 years and we had lunch with them and had a wonderful visit and talked about the good ole days of camping and Chili Dumps, that Jerry and Shirley had every year.. The timing was just right, after we finished our lunch I got a call that Herbie was done. We said our Good Byes and gave hugs we picked up Herbie and headed home.. Just had time to take a rest and then we had to go and pick up Ron and Eileen and head to Munising for Concert in the park. We stopped at Subway and picked up a sandwich and headed down to the park.
The gal that was entertaining was not our type of music to listen to. We stayed about 1 hour and then picked up our chairs and headed for Dairy Queen.. Then took a nice ride home.
We sat on the porch and waited to see if our animals would come in... Oh well...Not tonight.
Wednesday July 25th
Woke up this morning to thunder and lighting... It was just starting to get light out and I jumped up and got Herbie out before the rains started. After I got him in I said bring on the rain.. It rained most of the day. That was good though as we really needed it. Some times it was really a down pour and then there was just a soft steady rain.
Dan was getting antsy by just sitting around a so he went out in the barn and shop to see what kind of mischief he could find. Ah-ha Dan was working on a boat motor that he bought used a few years ago.. Good thing he didn't put in on our boat, the pump was bad. So he got the part to work temporally and then checked to see if the water was coming out and it was. Then he came in and was looking on the web and found the same motor and found the part numbers and then spent the evening looking for suppliers that were the best price. I had taught him to use the computer and then we bought him his own Dell and now he is on his own... I do not use his computer and he does not use mine, and it works out well..
It's time to let Herbie out for his last call and I am going to bed.. Good Night~~
Woke up early this morning again, and it looks like rain this morning. Oh Oh.. it was just another soft rain and grey skies morning and day.. The rain is needed though.. I did not do to much today, just tidy up and read my book and watched it rain.. Lazy Days are fun.....
Nice sunny morning, I was up early and got ready for Eileen to pick me up to go to Escanaba with her. Molly has an appointment with the Groomer. We went to Joanne Fabrics, and then to Wal-mart and had lunch and by that time Molly was done we were ready to pick her up.. On the way home we stopped at the Indian Bead store in Gladstone. I had not been there for some time, but I did find a few thing that I wanted.. I have to make a point of stopping back again, before we head to Texas.. Their prices are pretty good and they have alot of different types of beads... We did not go out to dinner with Ron and Eileen tonight, they had company and we were invited to go with them, but there would of been 8 of us and that is alot for the small restaurant especially on a Friday night.. I made a nice breakfast for dinner....
Saturday July 28th
Another sunny morning, this morning Molly coming for the day...Ron and Eileen are going on their annual VVA pontoon cruise on Lake Superior. They cruise around Grand Island and spend time in the bays, having a picnic and of course fun.. Herbie and I will have fun with Molly.. Herbie enjoys seeing her, but when she get in his face they go their separate ways. She goes and trashes his toy box and finds something to chew on.. I just have to remember that Herbie has to be the dominate on when we are here at home.. Dan, was mowing the lawn and he was going to do me a favor and mow the path that goes into the woods and he hit a rock and broke the spindle on his mower deck. Well some not so nice words came out and I decided to leave... He spent the rest of the afternoon taking it apart and he found some parts that would work and repaired it.. It is really nice having a Mr. Fix-it on board..
After he was done, we had a snack and then later it was time for me to take Molly home... We then went out for dinner.. To the casino for a wet burrito.. It is really good. Depends who is cooking, it is really really good... When we got back home after not winning anything on the penny slots, we sat on the porch for a while, waiting to see if any animals would come out... It was a fulfilled day......
Sunday July 29th
Good morning, it was a bit chilly this morning, but now the sun is shining brightly and the dew is drying off the grass.. Got a message this morning that HOC friends of ours are coming to the Upper Peninsula and want to stop over.. Great, I said, hopefully they will stay in our yard with their RV.. I am making a list of things that I want to get done this coming week, Dan is going to put a coat of wax on the front of the RV, and I want to get some baking done and put it in the freezer for when we head out for 12 days..
Dan built his stairway to heaven, when we got our boat so we could get in and out of it. Also he found he can use it to wax the trailer... the front is so nice and shiny....
Can you believe that the grocery stores want almost $3.00 for a dozen of cookie?? Cup cakes are IN Again... and the price of them are outrageous... Oh well, I don't even want to think what the price of food will be this winter..
I picked 3 tomatoes off the vine this morning and they look so so good.. Nice and firm--Yummy
2 more days and July 2012 will be gone and never to return.. In another 6-7 weeks the leaves will be changing. In 3 months we will be heading back to Texas. In 4 months I will be another year older.. ~~YIKES ~~
Can you believe that the grocery stores want almost $3.00 for a dozen of cookie?? Cup cakes are IN Again... and the price of them are outrageous... Oh well, I don't even want to think what the price of food will be this winter..
I picked 3 tomatoes off the vine this morning and they look so so good.. Nice and firm--Yummy
2 more days and July 2012 will be gone and never to return.. In another 6-7 weeks the leaves will be changing. In 3 months we will be heading back to Texas. In 4 months I will be another year older.. ~~YIKES ~~
I am not going to go to much today, AH ha.. Nascar is on..
Hope ya all had a nice week and catch ya again next week....
