Wednesday, 5/21/25, Shepherd’s hook with bird feeders fell over, Bill picked Max up to spend time with him, I picked Melissa up to get lunch, Vikki, Kimmy, Jared, Jacob and Adam came over in the evening, Bill went to the Marine Corp League meeting

This Azalea is so amazing after all of the rain we’ve had

This happened yesterday.  Kimmy was threatening to take a picture lol

Kimmy took a picture of me in my pink sweatshirt, with my pink ice cream and my pink snowball.  It was pink day I guess.  No worries...the snowball melted just like the ice cream so nothing much left in my tummy.

Me, Melissa and Jack.  Melissa and I split a Smash Burger and yummy fries from Miles Market and Jack had a cheeseburger and fries from Culvers.  Her pretty Mother’s Day flowers were our centerpiece

Another rainy day.  The rain is weighing down the branches and making them pretty close to the ground

Vikki took these pictures of Kimmy and Jared inside the shed from the house.  She was capturing Jared an Kimmy working on the windmill getting it to spin much better.  Jared had to make a new part by using the hacksaw to replace a big stripped bolt.  It worked great.  What an amazing son in law and an amazing daughter.  Vikki and I babysat Jacob and Adam in the house ha ha.  Maybe they babysat us.  

Vikki and I went out in the shed to check on how things were going.  She got a good picture of Jared working on the part.

Jared pulling out the birdhouse so he could put the windmill there.   It was pretty muddy and we thought it would come out easy.  It was really deep so it took lots of work to get it out.  I was just going to get the shovel when Kimmy hollered that he got it out.  

 

It looks so nice and sounds so much better!!!  Thank you so very much Kimmy and Jared!!!!

This is so cute and so funny.  I’m happy Jacob and Hailey got to work together today, but my expression would be the same or worse if I had to work by nasty sewage all day.  They are great workers!

Peyton looking so grown up and so beautiful.  Why do they have to grow up so fast?

We woke up to another rainy cool day.  It was really windy in the morning too.  Bill started reading his Bible after he drank his protein drink.  I went outside in the rain and straightened up the shepherd’s hook that had fallen and secured it better, then hung all the feeders back on it.  It stayed put after that even though the wind was still blowing hard.  I fed my fish and videoed my windmill spinning.  It was pretty clanky.  I came in, made my coffee, and ate a bowl of granola with pecans cereal.  Then I sat by Bill and read my Bible and while I listened to it being read on the Bible App.  I’m enjoying doing this.  I stop pause it when I need to reread and ponder what it is saying. 

Bill went to pick Max up to spend the afternoon with him.  They went to Davidson and went to 5 Guys.  Bill texted me to see if I wanted him to bring me back a hamburger.  He knows I love their burgers.  I had picked up Melissa and we were driving to pick up a Smash Burger and fries from Miles Market, then picking up a cheeseburger and fries from Culver’s for Jack, so I had Melissa text Bill and let him know not to bring me one.  We had to wait for ours at Miles, so we went and got Jack’s first and came back for ours.   We took them back to Melissa’s to eat.  Ours was just as yummy as before.  Jack liked his food too.  We took a selfie.    I reminded Jack of the time he was pretty little, about 8 years old, and he was doing his homework at the table by me.  His mom was very sick and in the rehab.  Jack looked at me and asked me if it was ok if he stopped and prayed for his mom.  Of course, I said yes.  He prayed a precious prayer.  

I left and went to Aldi’s and then to the bank to cash a check.  I was first in line.  Guess not many want to go out in this rain and cold.  I came home after that and Bill and I took a short nap in our recliners.  When I woke up I decided I wanted to paint the living room and dining room.  I texted Vikki to get the name of the color of paint her living room is so I could get the same color.  I texted her I was going to start it tonight.  Then she asked if she, Kimmy, Jared and the boys could come over while Eli, Peyton and Isaac were in youth group.  They wanted to see the windmill.  I decided to paint a different day.   I made corn on the cob, sirloin patties and baked potato for dinner.  Afterward, I mashed up three containers of strawberries.  

When Vikki, Kimmy, Jared, Jacob and Adam got here, they had come prepared to work on the windmill.  Bill was just leaving to go to the Marine Corp League meeting.  He said hi to everyone, then walked out with Kimmy, Jared and Vikki to look at the windmill with them.  Vikki mentioned that Jared was going to grease it.  Bill said no, he would do that.  Then he had to leave.  Kimmy and Jared were out in the shed quite a while working on it.  Vikki and I had strawberries over angel food cake with cool whip.  Kimmy and family all said they were too full to have some.  Vikki and I walked out to check on how things were going.  Jared had straightened all of the blades and was in the process of using the hack saw to make a new bolt the right size for connecting the top of the windmill to the bottom support.  He did a great job and had a lovely assistant and it worked.  Yay!  I purrs now instead of clanking.  He even put on old boots and put it in the garden for me.  It was no easy thing to get the birdhouse pole pulled out as it was really pushed in down deep.  He did it though.  He got it in and with the help of the eyes of Vikki and Kimmy he got it level.  Kimmy checked it to verify that it was level.  It was and looks great.  They had to leave after that to pick up the kids from youth group.  I talked to Kimmy and Jared on their way home.  I sure am blessed.