First of all let me tell ya about yesterday because I don't want to have to keep playin' catch up with the days. Yesterday was very busy with the youngest 3 of our Grand Daughters. Charli came first, and then Autumn and Tehya arrived not too long after. Then at 1 p.m. I left Charli with Grandpa and the two older ones went with me to get my hair done. They were good and we went to Walmart and had lunch at McDonald's. I got a potty seat for Charli, so when she is here I can put her on it to help get her potty trained. Of course, now I have to get some stickers and some treats for her. I'm not above using bribery, I used it the whole 17 years I did day care and I never had a problem with potty training any of them. They were always so proud of their stickers and loved their gummy bears. Lol! Okay on to last week.
Last Week In A Nutshell:
Last Monday Mike took the girls home after we moved to our new campsite. They worked hard helping us get the fiver set back up after we moved! Mike made the trip back home and then the trip back to the lake an hour each way.
While he was at home he took Jamie our son, to the doctor. Jamie had another back surgery on June 13 for another ruptured disc in his back. I felt bad because we weren't there, but we couldn't change our reservations for the trip. He came through it with flying colors, but had to go back to the Doc for a check up, and prescription for pain medicine. The Doc told him that the rupture of the disc was worse than the MRI showed. After he got inside and had to shave more of the disc off than he had planned to. He said that eventually he would have to fuse that disc too, but the insurance would not pay for a fusion before the disc had been shaved to see if that worked first. Go figure, they'd rather pay for 2 surgeries! So Mike got back to the lake about 5:30 p.m. and he left at noon! Needless to say he was wiped out! Most of the rest of the week we just spent unwinding and relaxing, except for Thursday.
Thursday:
On Thursday 2 very good friends from our Air Force days came up to the lake for an all day visit. We have known Ron and Gloria for 35 years! Our sons were born a week apart! So Gloria and I had a bond and Mike and Ron were Air Force buddies. It was good to just sit and talk about old times, our kids, and how our lives are now. It was a very relaxing day and we topped it off by grilling steaks and having baked potatoes and salad with cheesecake for desert. Gloria brought a very good salad with Olive Garden dressing that I'm now addicted to! None of us could finish the steaks I had gotten at Sam's, they were huge! Of course we had to have some wine with them too! So it was a good meal, and a good day reconnecting with good friends! I hope we can do it again before summer is over!
The rest of the time we just spent relaxing, and sitting outside in the perfect weather. There was a breeze and it was sunny until Sunday evening and a storm rolled in. You could see the storm coming from across the lake. It reached us in about a half hour. I wished I'd taken some pics, I love stormy looking skies. By the time it got to us the wind was gusting and it was pretty dark at about 7:30 p.m. The rain hit with the wind and lightening and thunder. The wind was blowing so hard that the rain was coming off the slide toppers and blowing right into the window beside my chair. It was pretty neat to watch, I like watching storms as long as they're not real violent. Of course, while the storm was going on we couldn't even see the shoreline or the water in the lake, and we were only about 50 yards away from it! We were just socked in with solid gray. It rained really hard for about a half hour to 45 minutes and then it was over. Then on Monday we finished packing up and left. It was so hot that day when we got home I had a dirt ring around my neck from sweat while we were getting the Bear (fiver) hooked up to the Beast ( truck).
Okay this post can now go down in the annals of history, cos it's a done deal, so until next time, see ya's...
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