Nevada background check not so easy anymore, Back to Reno on Monday, Aaron and friends, Cold!

Our grandson Aaron with his girlfriend Kenna 💙

Kenna, Aaron, Brandon and Elaine..gorgeous couples aren't they?!

 Friday morning after reading blogs and enjoying our coffee Ken checked his emails and there was one from Cabela's telling him his new gun was in. Want to go to Cabela's today? Sure. 

The high school was holding a dance called Aurora..kids 
didn't want to go but they wanted to get dressed up and
go to a nice dinner 💗

How do they grow up so quickly. This is our youngest grandson
he'll be 18 in March! 💗

Aaron and Brandon. 

We took our time getting ready and headed out around 0930 or so. It's close to 2 hours to get there. 

Headed to the gun counter and talked with Darren. He got the gun out and all was good. Then he said "Hopefully you can pick up your gun later today" What?! When ever we've bought a gun before it's the background check which took about 15 minutes and we were out the door. 

Well, thanks to our ex Governor Sisolak the 35 people who worked backgrounds were cut down to about 20 in 2020. Then they were transferred over to unemployment office to work on unemployment claims that were brought on due to Covid. After awhile he let most of them go and now there's maybe 3 people to do backgrounds daily for all of Nevada! They used to let the stores run 20 names at a time, but now it's only 10. Needless to say the wait time is horrendous! We were told stories of how they'd wait 2 hours or more just to get connected and then hung up on. The process starts over again! Frustrating. Darren did not charge us for the background check because I had retired from the Sheriff's Department, so that was nice! 

I did find a pair of jeans that I bought before we left the store. 

We left Cabela's and headed to Ross so I could look at some clothes. Came out of the store with nothing. Not like i'm hard to please, just wanted some t shirts and jeans..LOL. Simple. Not to be for me though. 

It was nearing 1330 so we drove the 1/2 hour to Betsy's Big Kitchen for linner.  Basically, we were killing time in case they told us we could pick up the gun. By the time we were done, we headed back to Cabela's thinking as it was going to be close to 1600 maybe it'd be ready. Nope. I did buy a 2nd pair of jeans in a different color though. Then we headed home. Around 1650 they called and said we could pick it up. Told them we'd be there Monday.  No way are we going to Cabela's or Reno on a weekend! 😁😂😱

Happy hour at Karen's after coming home. No need for dinner as we were stuffed! 

Saturday morning I spent making some low carb treats to go with our morning coffees. New recipes and they turned out awesome if I do say so myself. 😀

Another cold day as we woke up to 9 degrees with a high of 34. Not sure if it ever got that high or not. John made it home for Saturday evening and Sunday. Spent a couple of hours over there catching up with him.  

At 1300 I got a text showing the fire...haha. Out I went for 
awhile. I know, crazy. It was actually nice in the sun 😁

Sunday morning dawned very cold! Made Ken a toasted tomato and grilled cheese sandwich since it was Champagne Sunday today! 🥂We enjoyed in the house with a nice fire going and watched a movie. A nice slow morning until Ken went to help John with installing some chimney pipe in his new garage area. 

Part of our Christmas gift from Russell and Lori was different coffees from 
Black Rifle Coffee Company. Veteran owned. Coffee is a dark roast, delicious,
robust flavor and not bitter at all! Thank you Russ and Lori 😁

Right now it's 34 with a feels like temp of 25. So where is my hubby? He's in the outdoor kitchen making a fire so we can have Happy Hour out there! 😋

I'll get this posted so I can join him out there! 🍺🍷 Have a great evening!

Watching the icicles grow rather than shrink! LOL.