Deer! Dining! Kittens and Art!

Louis Dean and I were sitting out on the deck Tuesday afternoon when he said,
"Look, Linda! I think that's a deer!"

And so it was!

We have been coming down here for over 10 years and this was our first deer sighting.

I had my music on and Louis Dean and I had been talking so it wasn't like the deer couldn't hear us.

It went on down the fence line ......as casual as she could be......

until one of Mr. Jackson's cows came over to visit with her and she turned her tail up and ran back into the tree lines at the back of the property.

We may be silly but this was pretty exciting to us.

The fourth Tuesday is our bee meeting night but, once again, Covid 19 cheated us out of it.

However, the monthly meetings will resume in June but in the meantime,

Sherry, Rosey and I decided to have our own.

We arranged to meet in Marlin which is convenient to both of our places.

First - we stopped at Walmart so I could shop for kitty things.

I did, indeed, decide to take two kittens so I bought two beds, food, a flea comb, a brush, nail clippers, treats, a carrier, two fancy collars, litter and a scratch pad thing plus a couple of other fun toys.

Shopping done and we drove right across to El Charro to meet up with Rosey!

We.had.so.much.fun.

We talked. We laughed. We nearly cried. We laughed some more.

Everyone in the restaurant was doing the same thing!

The tables were few and far apart but you could hear the joy in all of us!

One guy sitting at the bar turned around and toasted all the diners proclaiming it a wonderful thing to be out and enjoying ourselves.

I hope I never take 'normal life' for granted ever again!

This morning, Louis Dean told me I should go down and get our kitties!

Like someone else was going to come in and snatch them away from me!

I had to go down and check on something for Dean and Sherry so I took the carrier down and brought our two kittens back with me.

This pic of Samantha and Louis Dean was when he first met her.

I had shown him pictures but he had not been down there to see any of the kittens.

It was love at first sight!

He said, "I never dreamed I would have my very own kitty!"

It's so silly but I took a ton of pictures of them today!

Thankfully, I deleted a lot of them!

Storms came into the Waco/Mart area early this afternoon and they looked serious but all we got was some light rain.

This pic is from this evening when it looked like we might get some more weather.

Grateful we 'dodged the bullet' on this storm!

Started some paintings for the Ardmore Craft Fair in November.

One more session and they will be done!

I'm painting two of the Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus.....one for me and one for BJ.

I based in this one and it will be so much fun to paint!

Tomorrow I will work on these two.

The bee on the honeycomb is for Summer.

Little Samantha is exploring all sorts of hiding places....and there are many.

But they are tired and are snuggled up for the night.....

so I think we will follow their example.

May I close this journal entry out with a prayer request?

My friend Dee - who came to lunch at my house just last week - is in serious condition in the hospital and it doesn't look good. She is our Leah's mother in law and son of Patrick whom we all love dearly.

Dee's husband has Alzheimer's disease and Dee has been the one keeping their life together.