Friday, 8/8/25, Happy 27th Anniversary Bruce and Melissa, Kimmy, Vikki, Isaac and Evan came over, We all worked on doing corn from the garden to put in the freezer, Went to Boot Barn, Bill picked Max up and hung out, Hailey and I went to Coco Loco, watered plants outside

Happy 27th Anniversary Melissa and Bruce.  So happy to can celebrate by going to a Tiger game (which they won) and enjoy your evening and night away.  Love you both so much!

Pretty bouquet of flowers Kimmy brought me this morning.  Jared arranged them.  They are so beautiful.

Kimmy and I were walking around looking at my plants and she found 3 Monarch caterpillars on my butterfly bushes.  Yay!  She took them home to watch them.

Two together

This is my dirt spill.  I pulled one of those dead blossoms and the whole pot and plant came up, then fell and knocked over the two small plants below and spilled dirt out of them.  

Evan and Isaac helped shuck the corn and carried it to the house.  They sure were great helpers.

Vikki’s job!  She cooked all of the corn and then brought it to us at the table

Kimmy and I cut the corn off the cob.  Vikki labeled the bags, then she and I filled the freezer bags.  Kimmy kept cutting the corn off the cob till we finished.  Thank you girls so very much.  You made doing this fun and easy!

At the Boot Barn waiting for Kimmy to return a cowboy hat of Adam’s and get a bigger size

Bad accident with a car and motorcycle in Walmart’s parking lot.  People need to drive slower and be careful in parking lots.

Eli made these cute ducks

He sure is talented and has skill for making things

On my ride home from Coco Loco’s, the sun was peeking through the trees and making the sky look like there was a fire.

On our road when I was almost home

My Hailey girl!  I sure had fun with her tonight

I got up early and got ready, sprayed the deck off with the hose to get bird messes off, put the cushions on the swings and filled some bird feeders.  Then I went to Walmart to get a few groceries I needed from Walmart.  I got home and Kimmy was already here and was sitting out on the deck.  I was so happy to see her and get my hug.  It’s been a long time between her camping and my camping.  We walked around and looked at my plants and she looked at the couch repair job in the camper.  Vikki got here a shot time later and we sat out on the deck and drank our coffee.  

Evan and Isaac hung out and said they were bored.  Well they weren’t bored for long.  Bill and I picked the corn and Evan, Isaac, Kimmy and Vikki shucked it outside under the shade tree.  They had a contest and Vikki was the winner.  That made it fun for them.  They all did a great job.  The boys carried the corn in because it was pretty heavy.  Then they hung out more and I didn’t hear them say they were bored again.  I went to pull a dead blossom from my big peace plant and the whole big pot came up, then fell and knocked two little plants I had just replanted over.  It left 2 piles of black dirt on the white carpet.  I let it dry and will vacuum it up when I know it is dr.  

We ate chicken salad sandwiches and freshly picked cooked corn on the cob for lunch.  Isaac and Evan weren’t hungry.  The corn tasted so good.  Yum!  We visited for a while, then we were going to go to the Shoe Barn and to Vikki’s so the boys could go for a bike ride.  The girls wanted to do the corn and get it bagged and ready for the freezer.  Vikki cooked it, then brought it over to us and Kimmy and I use the little handy tool to get the corn off the cob quickly and easily.  Vikki and I bagged it up and put it in the refrigerator until it was cool enough to go in the freezer.  Good teamwork made the job go fast.  Kimmy washed all the pans and dishes afterward.  I am so very blessed with such wonderful daughters and grandkids.  

We went to the Boot Barn and it was really fun looking around.  They had lots of cute clothes and things in there.  Kimmy had to leave and then when we got to Vikki’s she called the main company to get her refund and be able to order the hat at the sale price online.

We stopped at Wimpy’s on our way home and the girls got ice cream cones and I got a huge banana split for $5.30.  I couldn’t believe how good it was and how big for that price.  Kimmy went back to the Boot Barn and got her refund, while we sat in the van and finished our ice cream.  Then Kimmy went to get gas at Sam’s Club.  All of a sudden lots of emergency vehicles (3 ambulances, a couple of rescue vehicles, a fire truck, and police cars came pulling into the parking lot and went down by Walmart.  We drove there after we were done to see what happened.   Vikki had looked it up and knew it was a car/motorcycle crash.  

It was a bad one.  

We sat outside more when we got to my house.  Then we came in and enjoyed the air conditioning.  They had to leave, so we went out and Kimmy got the 3 caterpillars and put them in a container and took them to her house.  It will be fun watching them.

I texted Hailey because she had told her mom she was coming to see me, and asked if she had eaten yet.  She had been at a church conference so hadn’t.  We met at Coco Loco’s.  She is my grandchild that I am focusing more on praying for this month.  I always pray lots, but the evangelist said he does this for his grandkids and does a different one each month.  I had ordered her a God’s Gift of Love Package and gave it to her.  It had a candle, a keychain with a verse on it, a bracelet with a verse on it, a jar of scripture cards and on the front of the jar it lists things like happy, thankful, angry, sat, etc and has a color by it so when she feels like that she reads that color of card.  It had a pretty pink mug too that had what God says ab out her on it.... It was so pretty.  She really liked it.  We forgot to take a picture so I had to message her to tell her to send me a selfie.  She texted me....how did we forget a picture.  She’s so cute.  I came home and watered plants, then pulled more weeds in front, but it got so dark I couldn’t see.  Will do more tomorrow.

Bill got lots of weed whacking done today and did between all the cracks in the brick walkway in front of the house.  It looks so nice.  We are getting some filler fast that hardens in-between the brick.  He picked Max up this evening and they went out to eat and had a fun time.