We're Melting!

After my last post I got word that my new great niece in Missouri had arrived. Welcome to the world Whitney Rose. Momma Emily and Daddy John are very happy.  I've lost track of how many great Nieces and Nephews David and I have these days.  I have two more coming in the next few months.

I finished Whitney's quilt and got it to her  about 4 days maybe before she made her grand entrance.  Her quilt was the Highland Cow Quilt.

Working on finishing up the next quilt for a baby shower at the end of this month. I'll share pictures of that one once I give it to my Houston Niece and Nephew.

Got it back from the quilter so now to get the binding on and pictures taken.

It's been so dang hot out down here.  The last two days have hit 109 and 110. I feel like the wicked witched of the west from OZ.. "I'm melting I'm melting.  That will be the only liquid hitting our soil cracked ground.

Pamela and Kaleb had the boys for the weekend and set up a splash pad for them in the backyard to cool off for a bit. It's very refreshing. Killian and Braxton loved it for sure.

  

I recently David had posted a comic strip on FB and it looks so like our household. Our 78 pound lap dogs. They've gotten healthy and put on weight since they came to live with us. I don't know how because when they go outside you'll see them zooming around the yard chasing each other.  Bruno especially loves to climb up into David's lap.  LOL

  

Pamela took her two fur balls to get groomed recently and the groomer used a Barbie backdrop theme.  How many of you are going or gone to see the movie? I'm probably of the minority side in saying I think I'll pass. But Bri and Sophie had their Barbie moment. LOL

  

My Mom turned 88 this year. She has dementia but is strong and healthy. She's now in a caregivers home and doing great. Pamela and I went to visit her for her birthday. Ms. Purity the lady who cares for Mom decorated around the chair she likes to sit. We got her to sorta wake up long enough to take a couple pictures. LOL Otherwise she slept. I was tickling her feet and patting her leg but she wasn't having it.  She had just had her bath so she was all relaxed. Her hair has gotten long enough that had it pulled back in a pony tail.

I'll be damn I did it again. Our Gause Girls Book club met up on 8/10 for a discussion on our latest book, Run Rose Run by James Patterson and Dolly Parton and I didn't take a picture. GRRR.  I like the book and so did everyone else. It was good but not great. One reviewer said it well... "It's kind of like a Cinderella Story"  AnnieLee was running from her past to Nashville to find fame and fortune.  Right off the bat she hitch hikes but the seemly harmless looking older man became a horny old man but she put him in his place and steals his 18 wheeler. Now she only drives it as far as the next truck stop and left there for him. Her favorite saying was.... Had she done it before Nope, but she’ll figure it out.  She had never driven an 18 wheeler but she figured it out. Her past catches up to her in Nashville. She's like a cat with 9 lives.  

Warning next picture is a little sick if you have a weak tummy.

Last week Bruno and Sadie were playing chase on the patio and Sadie decided to duck under the table but she got dinged. She hit the corner of the chair with her head. It bled but it definitely cut the hide. It looks like someone took a hatchet to her head. 

David ran her to the vet and all they did was give him some antibiotic lotion to put on it for the past week. 

They didn't feel stitches were necessary.  Our poor baby girl. She didn't want to stand still for me but she did great at the vet. 

She's doing great. Not slowing her down.

Got a text from our friends Mark and Kathy asking what we up to on Thursday to see if we wanted to meet up for lunch.  They were going to be in our area.  Sounded great.  We met in Cameron at Ginno's. The food is really good and well priced.  David and I got a pizza to share and bring home left overs.  Mark and Kathy got pasta dishes. It was great catching up with them.  We sat there eating and talking for almost 2 hours.   And I should have taken some pictures but of course I didn't.  Bad me.  Next time.   

When we got in the car David took the scenic route home of sorts. He was craving some Blue Bell from the shop in Rose Bud.  Usually he goes in and get his ice cream and I go to the quilt shop next door but this time I was feeling dangerous and I went in with him and got a scoop of ice cream too. That was the most sugar I've had at one time in a very long time. Surprisingly it didn't cause me any issues. I wasn't sure but it sure was good going down. Obviously I won't be able to do that very often or I will be in trouble.

So we took a couple back roads back home after our indulgence in sugar and I did try to take some pictures of the feral pigs in the recently cultivated corn field and three younger ones playing in the river. I was surprised to see them out in this heat. The river made sense though.

Unfortunately the sun was so bright and we were just far enough away it's hard to see the ones running for the trees when David stopped the car.

  

  

Welp it's the weekend and there's not much happening. So I got in and wrote this blog post and now I need to go sew.

Until next blog...“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy that makes happiness” ~ By Charles Spurgeon