Made it to Dave's

 

Cracked window on the way.

Milly Came!!!

 She came!  She came!!

Oh, it was so fun

 A whole day of eating and visiting and more visiting.

Looking at yearbooks, sharing our favorite things, showing pictures, bragging on grandbabies, sympathizing with sorrows.

Milly brought ingredients for and made Taco salad. 

Another gorgeous sunset on the lake.

The moon reflecting on the water. 

A kayak was supposed to have been here for use. I might have tried it in the very murky water; however, I never found it. Nor the hair dryer.

Fifty Plus Years of Friendship

 Mike drove me to Las Vegas Airport on (very Early) Wednesday morning, August 14. Reunion time! I've been out of high school for FIFTY years!!

Milly was going to pick me up at the airport, but she got sick, poor dear. So on my way to the airport I made other arrangements for a way to get to our vacation rental on Lake Bob Sandlin. Smart phones and modern technology. What a blessing!!

Safe arrivals for me, Sandy and Bonnie. 

A big talk fest! A lovely dinner that Sandy had prepared and brought. A lovely sunset. A lovely home, well- equipped with all the amenities. It's a great location. Kind of far away from home, but so glad I came. So sad that Milly is missing it☹️.

Check out this GORGEOUS trifle Sandy made!!!

The neighboring dock has a slide. 

So does ours! Icky water. I don't like swimming where you can't see what's on the bottom. 

It's such a nice location.

And it was 100 degrees yesterday. 

Donna and Robert August Visit/Mike's Travels

 

Garden dinner on Friday evening. Yummies from the yard.

The "Bean Brigade!"

The lawn is soft and cool and bug-free.

Denny's for Breakfast 8/10/2024

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Mike had fun  August 6-11. He was in Vernal with Joe Maestas and his sister Sally. He was in Lander, WY with Joe and Andrew's family. He was in Herriman with Nick's family, and then he met me in Orem at the Texarkana get together .

Looking at a  "sink"and in the river

At museum.

Looking at big bucks on the yard at Andrew's in Lander.

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Since Robert was going home to Provo on Sunday the 11th, he drove Me to Orem, and Doug and Diane Gardiner, too. They got dropped off in Provo so they could drive a truck from Riverton to Cedar for their son, Jason. 

The Texarkana group met at Randy Evans' home. 

Close call, or a tender Mercy? Garage Door

 

[Aug 7 harvest. Beans, peas, cabbage, onion, tomato, peppers, lettuce, squash, eggplant, raspberries. Nice little harvest.]

This evening (August 6, 2024, Tuesday) around 7:30, I noticed that water was going down the ditch in front of our house, so I turned it into our irrigation gutter and let it run into the backyard. I forgot all about it until about midnight. 

Earlier today, I was at Mom's house. We went over her medicines, I made some phone calls, I had lunch with her. It was Taco tuesday! I took it upon me to run upstairs to her refrigerator and bring down some good salsa. It took the kitchen staff quite a while to bring the condiments out for the tacos. But I thought they were good. Not bad at all. I was kind of Piggy and had two. Everybody around me just had one. I ordered two because I thought they would be Street sized tacos. Street tacos are generally small. These were kind of medium to normal size. 

I had dinner at my house with Doug and Diane gardner. We had a nice vegetable garden dinner. Pam was supposed to come, too, but she was sick with a cold. Poor thing. And Mike is out of town. He left this morning early to head up to Vernal and spend some time with Joe in vernal, and Andrew in Wyoming. 

After I came home from Mom's house this afternoon and went to close the garage door, it made a humongously huge noise and quit working. It was stuck in the open position. The cable had broken and the chain popped off. I backed my car out of the garage and put it in the driveway. I'm so thankful the garage door decided to be broken in the open position rather than the closed position. That would have been awful had it happened right when I was on my way out to go somewhere and was stuck and unable to get out. 

Of course, Mike didn't answer his phone messages or texts that I had sent him about that little problem until too late to call anybody. But since Doug was going to be here in the evening and he is a mechanic, I figured I would just ask him to help me close it at least. And he did. He also locked it for me. With a vice grip pair of pliers on the garage door and frame. I thought that was nice of him. 

However since I'm alone at home I decided to lock the doors at night. It's still incredibly hot outside, and being alone I'm not going to leave my back door open. I even locked the kitchen door out to the garage. 

Climbing into bed tonight I remembered the irrigation water in the backyard! Oops. So I went out with a flashlight ( my phone) to make sure that it had stopped running. And I walked out to the front yard and made sure that it was stopped, too.  Whoever turned it on at the top of the ditch turned it back off again, so that was good. And then I went to go in the house and....

Remember how I said I had locked the back door? That door does not UNlock when you open it from the inside! I had forgotten all about that. But luckily, and fortuitously, perhaps miraculously, the kitchen/garage door was ajar when I went back in and I was able to enter the house. It was midnight. What if I had closed the door tightly behind me when I went out? What if I had been locked out of my house at midnight! All of the windows and doors were locked. It was MIDNIGHT!!!

Oh, that could have been bad. Really really bad. At least I had bothered to put my clothes back on before going outside and wasn't still in my jammies. :-)