Ken's sling free! Dinner guest tonight.

Sunday afternoon about 1330 we headed over to Izzie's house in town.  Her house is so cute, from the disaster it was last summer. I'm bad, we had such a good time, I forgot to take pictures. :(  It is adorable.  After the tour we all sat outside as it was a beautiful afternoon.  

Someone had sent her an "Alexa" so I worked to try to hook it up for her.  It's pretty bad when out of a group of people I am the techy...hahaha.  Eventually it worked! YAY.  It wouldn't have beens so bad but Pandora music wasn't connecting, eventually got a notice across her phone saying it was having technical difficulties, so it wasn't me LOL..

My sister, Wendy gave us this sign a while ago..finally got it up :)

We had some weather heading our way!

Actually got a few blooms! YAY!

Daughter in law, Cheryl gave me this hummingbird feeder
found a place for it! The glass is antique glass :) 

Around 1700, she served up a spread of Mexican food that was awesome! I ate way too much and on top of that she sent some home!  Sweet lady! 

We headed home around 1900 and then just enjoyed the rest of the evening here at home. 

Monday morning we were up around 0600 enjoying our coffees and visiting with our friends. After breakfast did some cleaning and just enjoyed being home for the day.  Nice warm temps and yesterday evening we were even treated to a little rain and wind. Of course it had to happen about the time we were going to do some porch sitting!  The winds couldn't make up their minds so we just had Happy Hour inside.  

Last night was Senior Night for baseball and our
grandson, Seth. He's been playing since he was
4 years old.  

Eric, Seth, Christina, Mason and Grandpa Bobby

Seth, Grandpa Bobby and Mason..

He's still smiling Patsy! 

I love this pic of Jacob and his sweetie!

We had Izzie's leftovers for dinner and then just settled in for a little tv watching.  Eventually we headed off to bed with the alarm set for 0445.  We'll be leaving here about 0815 for Ken's 1030 appointment in Carson City.  

This picture of Ken's brother Don popped up on FB. It's
been 7 years since our first trip back to TN.

Their beautiful home in Cornersville, TN. 

We left here on time and got to the Dr's office with about 1/2 hour to spare so we went on in.  Eventually we were called back to see Stephanie the physicians assistant.  She told Ken he could throw his sling in the garbage and gave him some stretching exercises to do and a referral for physical therapy in Yerington. He goes back on June 18th (6 weeks) and they'll start him on strengthening exercises.  He starts physical therapy on Friday morning. Ken's definitely a Happy Camper!  

We left there and headed to Walmart for a few groceries and then to Carson Valley Inn for a celebratory lunch.  We found out Carmen will be back next Tuesday so we'll have to head there soon to see our favorite server! 

My marigolds on the front porch are doing well..

Found these letters from 2000 when Russell was on float on the
Bonne Homme Richard.  There were about 14 in this group. My
mom (MA) wrote Russell everyday while he was gone for 6 months
then and when he was gone for 6 months in 1998. Hope I can do the
same thing when the time comes for my grandsons.. :) These are some
of the letters he wrote to her! :) 

Not too long after we got home we headed next door with some goodies for Jack and the chickens.  Oh, Happy Hour drinks too :)  

We visited and peeked in at Karen's in progress kitchen flooring tile! Looks lovely!  After awhile we headed home and called it a night.  

Wednesday morning I was awake a bit before 0600 and started the coffee.  I woke Ken about 30 minutes later.  The morning flew by!  I made the mistake of asking Ken what he wanted as a side dish for dinner.  He's bar b quing some chicken thighs and Karen is bringing some chicken breasts over here for him to bar b q.  Well, he said "how about that dish we had that Dana made when we were back there"...haha. ok!  Looked back in the blog and sound a waldorf salad, which I love but he thought with apples and grapes more like dessert.  I found the spinach, artichoke, mushroom casserole.  Got on Pinterest and found one that sounds similar.  I will ask her for the recipe, but not on a moments notice.  She is such a good cook, it's hard to remember all we had and it turns out this goes back to the trip in 2017! 

Made a quick trip to Raley's for the things I didn't have for the dish and got it made after lunch.  A spinach salad that copies the one served at Carson Valley Inn and we're set!  

Ken changed things out front where he likes to bar b q.  So now it's set up for visiting. He's found things to keep him occupied now that he's got 2 hands! LOL. 

Ok, the two pictures below are my great nephew Owen.  He ran his first race on Sunday. It was about 1/4 mile! Way to go for a 4 year old!!  2nd picture is his mom, Chelsea putting on his race #.   

Russell, Jacob and mom, Lori...

Karen's here so it's Happy Hour time! Have a great evening!