House Cleaning Monday

This was one of my usual Mondays. It rained a little about 5:00. Early on, about 7:00 before it got hot, I cleaned out my lily/iris bed and then I cleaned house. I also did two loads of laundry and changed my bed.

It got very hot toward noon and I had to let Slinky in the house. He was very hot. Slinky is being a very finicky eater right now. He hadn't eaten much for three days until this morning when he ate a little of his dog food...very little.

By this evening he hadn't eaten much of anything. I fixed a strip of bacon and poured the grease over his dog food and he finally are every last bit, including the strip of bacon.

I read a bit this afternoon and then fixed some Parmesan Chicken, baked potato and coleslaw for dinner. Then we ate the last of the cherry pie cake for dessert.

This evening we will watch Antiques Roadshow. Tomorrow I will dust. I cleaned everything else.

Wonderful Cherry Pie Cake

Here's what you will need.

I large can of crushed pineapple
I can of cherry pie filling
I yellow cake mix
1/2 cup of pecans or walnuts
I stick of oleo

Grease or spray the bottom of a 91/2 X 13 cake dish.
Dump in the can of crushed pineapple juice and all...spread around evenly.
Dump in the can of cherry pie filling..spread around evenly
Dump in the dry yellow cake mix..spread around evenly
Spread the crushed pecans or walnuts on top
Cut stick of oleo into slices and lay on top of the dish

Bake at 350 degrees for 50 minutes.

Serve hot or cold or with vanilla ice cream.

Usual Busy Sunday

I got up early this morning which is my usual way. We left for church at 9:00. I had the bulletins to run. After Sunday School and church we came home to eat because the weather was so hot the dog could not be out any longer. We just had salad because we had had biscuits and gravy at church and were not hungry.

Slinky came right in. He has been in all afternoon and has not eaten all day. I would imagine he's too uncomfortable but he's in air conditioning now so I don't know what his problem is. I left his food out in here in the kitchen. If he gets hungry, he may eat.

I made my cherry pie cake for tonight's dessert. We have "Living the Questions" here at 7:00. I got some Breyer's low carb vanilla ice cream to put on it. That and mixed nuts and iced tea should do. I don't know how many of our 12 members will attend. It's a good group. Three Community of Christ, two Presbyterians, two Southern Baptists and four Methodists (and an agnostic).

Laid Back Saturday

I mowed early so we could go to Bartlesville this morning before it got horribly hot. When we got home around noon, it was awfully hot...over 90 degrees. Slinky was very overheated and I let him in for the afternoon. I read most of the afternoon and brought the checkbook up to date.

We let him out about an hour ago so we could go to dinner. When we got home an hour later, he was overheated again. So I let him back in and put the fan on him. He didn't eat a bite of his supper. He's resting now.

We will watch part three of "The Power of Myth" with Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell. Bob has really enjoyed his birthday gift from me.

Surely it will cool down after that and we can put Slinky out for the night. What does one do with a dog that gets so hot and we live in southeast Kansas?

Tomorrow we have church. I am presiding and Bob has the sermon. I hope we have a good attendance.

My crepe myrtle, rose of sharon and black eyed susans are all blooming now. I will post the photo of the black eyed susans.

Home From Camp

I got home about 10:30 this morning and it was a great week. Before I left this morning we had camp cleanup and I cleaned the woman's bathroom in the dining hall. We had cinnamon rolls for breakfast since they were mopping up the floors and getting the camp ready for Camp Quality. Camp Quality is for children with cancer. It is free for the children and there are lots of councilors and a doctor on staff and a nurse on duty 24/7.

The pool was almost finished. It should be filled today. It was finished too late for our camp. It will be nice next year though.

I started my laundry after I got home then went to Independence to meet Bob, Leslie and Cyndi for lunch. We ate at the Railroad Inn, which is Italian food.

Tonight we will have a light supper. Missy, the cat was glad to see me. She was not happy that her bowl was nearly empty and Bob lets it get so low that she can see the bottom of the dish and she always thinks that it is empty if she can see the bottom of the dish.

Slinky was glad to see me too but he thought I would let him in the kitchen. Finally I did because he was so hot!

I took my camera but forgot to take any photos. Oh well....

Camp

Camp has been really nice! The weather has been excellent and I have had a really good time here. Bob brought over my laptop Monday evening so i could pay bills but I haven't had a lot of time to post since I am teaching a two and a half hour class every afternoon. We have flag pole devotions at 6:45 AM followed by breakfast at 7:00. Then we have a prayer meeting and a class. After lunch I have my class. There is recreation following that. At 5:15 we have dinner and cleanup after that. Then we have song service and a preaching service in the evening at 7:30.

Today I have had KP with my chores group so after each meal I do pots and pans and the others run the dishwasher and clean up tables and sweep.

It's nearly 4:00 now and in a half hour we will have the big "duck race" with rubber duckies in the creek. It's an annual affair and we choose a numbered duck and root fro it all the way to the bridge while running along the side of the creek.

Tonight is the last preaching service of the week. The camp breaks up after consecration service in the morning. Before that, we clean the camp to leave it nice for everyone else to come.

We have gone to camp almost every year since Scott was 1 year old and he is now 48. This is the first year I have gone alone though. Even if Bob is out on a disaster, I take a grandchild. The grandchildren are all grown now so there is no one around to bring.

Rainy Holiday

There goes the party! Cyndi was having a pool party this afternoon but about 6:00 this morning it started raining and it's still raining at 8:00 AM. The forecast is for rain all weekend. There goes Leslie's part of this party too. They were going to have homemade ice cream and fireworks and we were taking a watermelon. We will still have the homemade ice cream and watermelon but I don't know about the fireworks.

About noon the rain stopped.I hope it stays stopped so Cyndi's party can go on.

Bob has taken Slinky for a walk since it has cooled down.

I will have to get my clothes ready for camp this afternoon. I have several outfits to press and pack for the week. I am wearing mostly what we used to call pedal pushers when I was young...and shorts. It should be very hot. I will take some jeans for the cool mornings though.

My texts came in. Kathy called me Thursday to tell me they got them. So the class is on. I hope I am ready for the class. I re-read my material this week.

I had a couple of short length pants cut off for shorts and Bob picked them up yesterday morning at the cleaners where I had that done. So that will give me two more pair of longer shorts for the week.

I hope I enjoy it. Bob will stay home with the animals and do his physical therapy.

Last night the seven of us went to dinner at the Tavern on the Plaza. We had a good time doing that.