Monday, 6/15/26, went to the dentist, went to Panera, went to Melissa’s, put Preen down around the house where Kimmy weeded, filled bird feeders and bird baths, went to Home Depot, weeded part of the garden, took garbage out, planted 3 more rows,

This fountain was my mom and dad’s.  They gave it to Bruce and Melissa.  I love going to Melissa’s and seeing it and hearing the water fall.  Bruce has had to do some repairing on the inside after all these years.  He’s done a great job.  I have so many good memories of my mom and dad when they got this and all the years they enjoyed it.  

Jack’s last day of school was last Thursday so he was home when I stopped over today.  He came and sat on the swing with me, Melissa and Wookie.  He is so great with dogs.  

My knockout roses are blooming.  This is the biggest one.  It’s by the walkway so I always keep them trimmed down.

I got ready, had to take my antibiotic which I will always have to do since my hip replacement, and then had to be at my dentist appointment an hour later.  I had the best higeniest.  She did a great job and didn’t hurt me once.  She was telling me she wished she would have became a dentist. She sure was skillful and loves her job.  I asked her if she had a good church she goes to and she told me she didn’t, but reads her Bible and does a 90 day Bible study.  I told her about our church and told her she should come.  I hope she does.  My dentist came in and said he didn’t see anything that concerns him.  Yay!

I went to Panera and picked up a large Hazelnut iced coffee with vanilla creamer in it.  Then I headed to Melissa’s to drop off Evan’s tennis shoes he left in our Jeep yesterday.  Wookie gave me the best greeting.  He came and gave me a sweet hug and. just was so happy to see me.  Jack said all of their dogs love me or have loved me.  He was so sweet and happy about that.  Melissa gave me treats and got Vader so I could give both dogs treats.  Vader was happy to see me too, but not like Wookie.  We sat in the living room and drank our coffee and visited.  Then we walked outside and looked at her bird feeders and plants.  We sat on the swing after that and just relaxed and enjoyed listening to the water fountain.  Jack joined us and held Wookie.  Kimmy called and told me that we could take our Mantis back, and get a 4 cylinder one with easy start, on sale and only pay a little more than the one we got.  She didn’t know if Bill would want to put another one together.   I headed home and told him about it and he said it was easy to put together.  He went out and emptied the gas tank, took the wheels we added off, and loaded it in the Jeep.  We went to Home Depot and returned it and ordered the other one.  He didn’t use a walker or a cane and hasn’t had to take any pain meds.  Thank You Lord!  He doesn’t even have the walker in the living room anymore.  

God is so awesome!  

I preened around the front and side of the house where Kimmy worked so hard weeding and surprised me.  It looks so nice now.  Thanks again Kimmy.  I washed the hummingbird feeder and made new sugar water for it.  I filled two jelly containers that were completely empty.  They had half of another one to go.  I pulled some weeds out where the ground cover is and also in my flower garden.  Not many though.

I went in the house and Bill was napping.  I decided I would take a short nap, so layed in my recliner.  He got up and said he was going to pick up a thing he ordered for the Jeep.  I told him I was going to vacuum while he was gone.  I had already started Ruby the Roomba.  He laughed and told me not to work to hard.  Then I laughed.  I called Kimmy and talked to her for a while.  I also talked to Vikki and Melissa.  They got a good laugh out of what Bill said. 

We enjoyed sandwiches and leftover potato salad for dinner.  After dinner, I went out and worked up the soil around four rows in the garden and also about a third of the edge of the garden.  There were 4 deer tracks in the garden on the end towards the house.  I looked and it looked like it came between the middle part of the electric fence.  It didn’t eat anything and didn’t stay and got out but we didn’t see any tracks so it must have went right back out to the grass.  I need a camera in my back yard.  I used the 3 prong rake to work up the dirt so I could plant a row of beets, a row of kalarabi, and a row of Zinnias.  I hoed rows after getting rid of some weeds and then got it all planted.  

I watered my plants on the deck after that and washed my garden tools.  Then I emptied the trash bins in the house and then put it all together in the Big Blue trash can with the garage trash.  I took it out to the road after that.  Then I came inside and we snacked on some chips.  I read my Bible (Bill had already read his) and then we did our prayer book/devotion.  I worked on catching up on my blogs after that.

 

Sat., 6/13/26, Went to Faith Rider’s meeting, went to Tawas Chapter’s Ride and Seek, Kimmy, Jared, Ad am, Eli and Isaac came over, Vikki, Peyton, Brigette, and Bethany came over, Got home and Kimmy had weeded all of the weeds around the rest of the house, I made pizza, got drumsticks out and also frozen strawberry pops out, Eli and Isaac swam, then the girls swam. Jared power washed our pool lounger chairs and did a perfect job, and then hooked the hose up and started it to water the garden, Vikki, Kimmy, Isaac and Eli moved bird feeders and trimmed dead branches

Group we rode to Tawas with.  Bill, Joaquin, Julie, Jim, Elaine, Karen and Miles

Miles and the rest riding in front of us and us in the Jeep.  The water and the weather were absolutely beautiful.

Scott, Lew and Abigail

Barb (Suzie dog) Miles and Ron

Dan and Joaquin

Dan, Dan and Joaquin

Cindy, Lew, Miles, Ron and Bill

Russ and Marsha

Bill, Joaquin, Dan and Valerie

Julie and Jim

Lew and Cindy sharing before the ride

Ron and Barb sharing about RFS

Denny, the president of Kingdom Riders Sharing

Brittany sharing

The Assistant pastor of the church and Denny sharing

Any praying for our group ride

Valerie sharing about the ride.  She’s the road captain.

Bikes taking off

Riding to the Light House at Tawas Point...we followed in the Jeep

Riding to the Tawas Point Light House

Tawas Point Light House

Us at the light house

At Lumberman’s Monument

Selfie with friends Cheryl and Arnie

At the Bear Store

Dan in the big chair

The dam we passed

It started to rain hard so we put the top of the Jeep up quickly

This one was before the rain started

Bill and I with Paul Bunyan in the background

More time visiting with friends

Valerie’s mom and JessiLee were blessings at the registration table and also helping with food for everyone after the ride.

We got up early so we could get ready and get to Faith Riders meeting for breakfast at 8 and meeting, then leave with the group at 9 and ride to Tawas for the Ride and Seek.  They are a new group and this is their first ride like this.  We love the people in the Tawas chapter too and wanted to support them and be there.  They were all really happy and surprised to see us.  Our nephew, Freddie helped the chapter set up the tents in the morning.  He attends their church.

It was a nice ride there.  We put the top down on the Jeep so it was kind of like we were on the trike.  We all hung out in the church parking lot and visited with everyone til it was time to ride.  Then we all took off in groups, but ended up in places with a couple of groups at. time.  We all had to take our picture with the things designated at the stops.  It was fun!  I asked Bill if he wanted me to put the stops in my maps, but he said no.  Then, on the third one, he said he thought we missed a turn and I should put it in.  We went a little out of our way, but it was a beautiful ride on winding nice roads.  We caught up with two groups at the Bear Store where they have a bear and other live animals.  The bear wasn’t out.  We all had ice cream there and sat at picnic tables and ate.  We went to Lumberman’s monument after that.  We took a picture by Karen’s bike for our Michigan CMA challenge ride while we were there.  We hung out with Cheryl and Arnie while we were there.  Such a fun day!  We headed back to the church and the pastor was cooking the hot dogs and they had chips and cookies also for us to eat.  We left after that and headed home.  Kimmy had called and said Eli and Isaac picked going to our house to swim as what they wanted to do.  She called me and asked if they could so I of course told her yes.  Adam went too.  About an hour later, Vikki called and said she knew Kimmy was at our house, but Peyton and her two friends from BayShore wanted to go swimming too.  I told her of course too.  We got home and walked out to the back deck and I could see Kimmy weeding along the deck.  She looked hot and tired.  I went and thanked her and gave her a big hug.  I also told her to stop.  She was almost done so finished what she needed too.  I started pulling some weeds with her.

Vikki and the girls got there.  Bethany came in the door and said hi to me and said she was starving and asked if I had anything to eat.  I started making pizza’s in my little Ninja oven and also put two in the big oven.  I had pot pie if anyone wanted some too.  We had drumsticks and frozen strawberry ice cream bars for dessert.  The boys had already swam and then changed.  The girls went swimming and stayed in a long time.  I asked Jared to show me how to hook up the power washer, because Bill hadn’t shown me yet.  Jared not only hooked it up, he washed the four white pool lounge chairs perfectly.  He also, after winding the hose up, took it out and hooked it up to the garden sprinkler and turned it on for me.  Vikki, Kimmy, Eli and Isaac, chopped dead branches off my tree with all the bird feeders and moved the feeders to live branches that needed to be moved.  It looks so nice.

Everyone left after that.  Kimmy had to get home to boil eggs for deviled eggs and I had to make my potatoes and cut them, cut celery and cut onions for the potato salad.  I already had the eggs boiled.  

After that it was like 11 p.m. and I worked a little on the blog posting pictures.  To be finished later.