Mom's visit

We had a great visit with Mom last monrh.  June & Teresa took their vacation to go camping and brought Mom here to stay with us for a few days. They had an interesting trip, traveling with three dogs and my 89 year old Mom. Not even halfway here, one of the truck tires started coming apart and they did not have that size in the town. After waiting awhile in the heat, they put the spare on and continued on their way. But something was wrong - the truck was vibrating and could not even go 60 miles per hour.

Teresa and I were texting back and forth, so I told her we would head that way. A little while after we left, she texted not to come. A car with three guys and a girl pulled up beside them and told them they had a flat on the travel trailer. They put the spare on it and continued on their way. Thank goodness they made it since they were out of spares!

They all came to church with us Sunday and met bunches of our friends. After lunch, the girls and their dogs left to find a lake and RV park. They traveled to Mineral Wells and stayed until Tuesday. I called a tire store for them to order 4 new truck tires and they were put on Tuesday. They left the next morning traveling to Lake Arrowhead, near Wichita Falls for a couple of days, then on to Copper Breaks state park on the way back to Amarillo.

Mom went with us to the nursing home to visit DH's Dad. They are always picking at each other from a distance. Mom is older by 7 month so Dad says he will seek advice from her. She tells him (via us) to behave and "don't make me have to come down there". Good visit but wish I had taken pictures.

Mom went to Fry's Electronics with us to get my new computer (that will be another blog), out to eat a couple of times and to Wednesday night church. One trip out to eat, we were both bad and had pecan cobbler with ice cream on top. (Sorry, Mom, I had to tell on us!)

One morning after her shower, I went to take mine and discovered a lizard in the tub. She said "Is that the tub I just got out of"? I figured the lizard already took a shower with her so had my DH remove it to the outdoors.

We had a nice visit with sister, Kathy & husband Gus. They stopped by after visiting with their son, Steve in Dallas. 

Then, our niece Lene and kids came over to visit Grandma.

I had been wanting to go to Amarillo for a visit and daughter, Sheri and grandaughter, Emma as well so we took Mom home and stayed a few days to visit. Of couse, we had to stop at our favorite restaurant on the way - Dutch's in Quanah.

 My sister Barbara, had a stray dog show up a few weeks ago and wanted to find a home for him. She is a cat person and said that the dog was not hers - but . . . she bought food, treats, pigs ears and toys for this dog. She called him 'BOY' and her husband called him 'DOG'.

Since Sheri has been fostering dogs in her area, she said she would take him home. They looked for his owner but no one was looking for him and he did not have a chip identification. Sheri gave him the name 'Charlie'. He did really well in the car on the trip home.

Barbara has a yard full of pretty flowers and I took a few pictures of them.

We had a great time doing thrift store shopping with Fred as well.

We observed Mom & June's "pet" squirrel. He loves their deck. First he checked out and ate some bird seed around the feeder, then checked out the cat food - turned up his nose at that! He proceeded to the deck to relax a bit before scampering off to the top, onto the house and into the tree.

We had a really great visit!