such A beautiful day

 hanging at Moberly part waiting to pick up Kates temporary retainer had lunch at McDonalds found glass jars for our beach sand and shells and some other stuff at Shopko after we get her retainer I will drop off Katie and Vivian at VBS....wish every day could be a stay at home mom day....

"Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that." ~ Walt Disney

today is a wonderful day not to be at work....basement windows delivered....trying to do staircase, but having some technical difficulties....Kevin cleaned gutters....I'm getting my exercise hiking here & there doing laundry...Katie is getting ready for her dentist appt.....

a work day....never a good way to start the day....

walked into G barn, a boar wandering around....went to B barn to put him up, 3 more boars wandering around...but did manager to tighten animals, load a room, and get the shots done for the week....and called to make physical appt. for Katie, and have to get a physical form from school.....called orthodontist....he is on vacation for 2 weeks, will take 2 months to get a retainer, taking her tomorrow to get a temporary one....

Kevin was already gone to work by the time I got home....stopped by grocery store, made Katie chili, she on-line shopped, I put sheets and blankets back in hall closet that Kevin put back together, he also did 2 loads of laundry...no small feat these days since you have to hike out the the mud to the side of the house to get to basement where washer is now located....he also got gutters back up and partially cleaned, and visited his grandma, returned library book, went to bank, and tried to find Clifford to pay our hotel rent. he can be pretty elusive....

finished watching Easy Rider...I didn't understand it, but did recognize the tombs in the infamous scene that I meant to watch BEFORE I went to New Orleans....all that freedom and following dreams to be shot by some guy in a truck? quite the uplifting ending. but life usually does end badly...so I guess that was the gist of it?

Katie & I had quite the road trip to Lamoni so she could visit her boyfriend....his parents will bring her home.

I am constantly amazed at how I can't remember just exactly where anything is anymore....had to use the GPS to get to Lamoni, then I jumped onto the interstate about a block from where she was meeting him....I know she gets tired of dealing with me. Sasha got her bath today, they all 3 got flea treatment, faked my way thru the GS troop finance report....I didn't record any of our profits, etc...had to wing it. did brave the mud run to basement to start a load of laundry. got most of the extra stuff lugged out of KJ's room and stored in the hall, dining room, our room, and garage. will figure out somewhere else to throw sheets when he comes home. did get a text from him that he would be home sometime soon, he just wasn't sure when. got some pictures put back up, can't find the wood one for under Chiefs picture. measured my NOLA artwork and ordered a frame on amazon.com and Miss Cuddles a new pop up tent cat box cover and cat box bottom....hers is barely holding together. got some more of our apt. stuff put away. kind of looks like home again.

Sunday

slept in (in my own bed!), then went with Kevin to clean our apts. at the hotel, then to the farm to fix baler and I rode with him for awhile, a storm was blowing in and he was getting nervous, so I came home, grocery shopped in our freezer at Maries, then rescued the weiner dogs from the rain. gutters are spouting everywhere....should've got them fixed right....and having your house in the middle of a huge yard of dirt.....perfect for a gully washer.

we are home.....

Kevin worked overtime and got a couple hours sleep, then worked with a/c guy and he and Katie emptied out apt. and moved back home. I worked all day, then stopped by apt. and cleaned out fridges. dealt with bathroom floor with the toilet seal gook all over it. Kevin cleaned shower. washer is now in basement, as I requested. dryer back in garage. kevin didn't have time to move plug down to basement and after the bill the plumber gave him he won't be doing it, either. Bitching about stuff and trying to get it changed is its own reward, I have come to learn....Katie to tractor pull at Mercer County Fair. I let dogs back inside, cleaned off couches and our bed, cleaned off Katie's bed, made our bed....I must've been giving Daisy a bath when she texted me to come get her... she called m about half an hour later. they were sitting in the dark at the end of the fair road....just Katie and Vivian. Miss Cuddles seems happy to have humans home again, not so thrilled with her canine sisters. KAtie is pissed that I brought the dogs back in. AND her retainer is missing. will deal with that Monday. She is sure it is in truck. I haven't found it....she says she checked her bag. I didn't get to it while she was gone. I did print off the financial form for GS, but wasn't in mood to find the stuff to fill it out. that is on tomorrow's list, along with cleaning hotel apt. and turning in keys, putting some pictures back up here, taking tractor to Lije's, measuring my new art to get online and order a frame....maybe hang my NOLA inspired window thing. fell into garage in the dark, forgot the garage steps are at front door. but the a/c works, and the electricity is on and the internet works. don't have satellite hooked back up yet, but do have the list. I am enjoying listening to the ice maker at work.

I grew up in the country where it was so dark at night you could lsy in bed and see constellations out the window.

when we stayed at grandma Grace's.....we slept in the front room or on hideaway couch in living room the street light shone in the windows and you can see headlights on the wall as people drove by all night long our room at the Cottonwood Inn remind me of those nights I spent with my grandparents all I need is to hear their soft voices through the wall as I drift off  to sleep....