Happy Birthday Danny!

Wow Its your 34th birthday..You are making us feel OLD! I hope you have a great day.
We love you. Mom and Dad

My first Storm Warning

We had storm warnings come thru all across Texas and watched them get closer and closer on TV. It finally got here about 10:30. 60 mile hr winds and severe thunder and lighting with side ways crazy rain... I could read the newspapaer it was so bright for about an hour. Got a inch of rain in like 20 minutes then it moved on.

Happy 29th ANN.

Happy 29th Anniversary Wes. It was my turn to plan how we would celebrate this year so I thought since Wes loves trains, we would go to Rusk TX. and ride the steam train.
We were going to take the RV but there was a biker rally and they had reserved the whole campground so we just got a motel for Friday night.
We picked the open window car right behind the steam engine...get the full effect the sound and smell. I had to laugh because there was a Cub Scout pack there and the boys rode most of the way with their fingers stuffed in their ears. The train went about 25 mile to Palestine Depo. We had an hour or so to eat our box lunch under the trees and looked around that Depo before the ride back to Rusk.

Lawn mowin and Creek orner

Well this morning I 'm sitting on the porch having my coffee and here comes Mr. Baumgartner on his lawn mower... he said I'm here to mowing some of your yard and off he mow about 1/3 of yard......
He told Wes to come over to the house, he had a older mower he could use to finish the job - Wes spent about 3 hrs mowing front , back, and side yards while I weed whacked around the house and pulled grass out of my flower bed.
Last week we noticed that one of the big oak tree had tilted in the Creek Corner,,,(aka poison Ivy/Oak area pit)...Wes went out to cut back some bush to get a look at the tree and wouldn't you know it,,,, Yes Wes is got it again,,on top of his head, across this face, shoulder on both inner arms,on one side and behind both knees...
He is a mess...poor thing goes crazy at night and cant sleep. I think we're going to hire professional help to clear these 2 back corners...

Quiet weekend are good

Well we've been waiting for the rain for the past 3 days but it has gone around us. Thur afternoon we are sitting on the porch when Brooke came home from school and she hollers "Ya'll watching the rain?" I said we haven't gotten a drop. I guess it was raining so hard in town that the street were flooding out...but not here.

It looked like it might rain all day on Fri but nothing..I cleaned house and did the floors then went to Walmart for a few groceries for this next week. We went out with neighbors Tom and Judy for fish dinner.Its a hole in the wall gas station/grocery store/ very small cafe seats maybe 30 but it was Yummy and we shared a piece of choc pie,,OMG,,, it was still warm...I think I've died...

When we got to the end of our road there were puddles everywhere, that was less than a mile down the road. When we got home, it finally started to rain.. I checked the gauge this morning and we got 1/2in in during the night.

We were up and gone early this morning for a 8:30 genealogy class at the library in town and it poured there all day. Poor Wes,, he's not use to getting up so early..8:30 / 9:00 is his usual get up time.

We checked the rain gauge when we got home and we got another inch during the day. Its still raining and they say we could another 2 inches...so we'll see.
Guess this mean we will "HAVE TO" really mow the lawn this next week.
The rest of the weekend is going to be quiet...play on computer, work on a project, or read a book, and church in the morning

New washer and dryer....

YEAH!!! My new washer and dryer has arrived... A big flatbed 18-wheeler comes down the road and cant make the turn into yard so he stops out on road...he gets his loader off the back and brings themthem up to the porch and sits them down...

1st Monday in Canton

Yesterday we drove to Canton, TX for "1st Monday". Its a HUGH swap meet & craft type flea market. We walked around for 5 hours and had to quit for today. We know we didnt see not even half of whats there... We'll just need to go again and take the RV and take 2 days.


Dads been digging his trench to put in a water line for a water facet at the corner of the house. He did good but kept me worried with him digging in the hot sun. Now we wont have to connect 3 hoses to water the flowers or crape myrtal trees.