Catch Up Time!

Back home.
Busy, busy week with Hubby home, Sister visit, Eldest Son/Lovely Wife visit and a quick visit with Baby Girl and Harry Beast.
A nice Sunday afternoon walk brought this little piece of antiquity in Eldest Son's neighborhood. Great color for a hydrant, eh?

mama always wants to cook for her people...
The favorite spaghetti sauce with carrots, celery and bacon? So Good.

We saw this flash from the polluted past...
An actual lady actually burning actual leaves...with a can of gasoline nearby...Really? Wow.

Just a grand walk/talk with Baby Girl and Lovely Wife and the silliest boston terrier you'll ever meet...my granddog....

Lovely Wife got to pick the restaurant for our November Birthday Celebration....Good, good choice, LW!
The Creation Cafe in downtown Indianapolis (www.indycanal.com)
New with an old warehouse vibe..
Awesome food and with outdoor seating in November, more's the better

And with chairs like this, could the food be bad? I think not...

Fun time....Good croquet game too, Eldest Son!!! Wow..First AND Third place!!!!

Spoofin' or Ways to Make a Doctor Appointment Fun

Okay. So you have to go to a doctor appointment to meet a new doctor that you'll be going to in Indy....
All is not lost!
When you live in a small town, you make the most of every Big City opportunity...
Here are a few things Hubby and I did after my early, early appointment.....


Fabric Shopping!! Found a wonderful fabric/upholstery shop in Danville Indiana called Rader's Fabrics....TONS of fabrics and a grand end of bolt bin....Many yards of purse-bound fabrics

All that fabric shopping and doctor visiting can wear a person out! You need sustenance, by golly! Why not go to the Mayberry Cafe where there is everything Sheriff Andy Taylor and his buds? Why, you can even buy Mayberry0poly and watch non stop Mayberry episodes! Too funny! We indulged in the Aunt Bee Meatloaf special and who could pass up the hot blackberry cobbler with real ice cream (NOT frozen yogurt!) Diet another day!

Did we not laugh like crazy when we saw Mayberry's finest parked along side the cafe??

On we went to other more mundane destinations only to finish up a day of spoofin to the 2G's and their parental units to a lovely supper of Shrimp Caribbean with a side corn salad that was pretty amazing....We were fed very well, thank you, from Aunt Bea to our favorite little family.....

Spoofin Days.....

And the Weekend...

Ryne's wondering why oh why would I just want a photo of the new patio??

McAlisters -be it Indy or Cincy......

Of course, the Vintage/New apron made on the last visit....~

Always grateful for the lazy weekends.

Usually, they are packed and busy.

Not so, this past weekend.

A rather planned/spontaneous trip to Indy to visit Eldest Son and Lovely Wife.

We absolutely love our time there. There is usually lots of talking, planning, sharing and sometimes projects worked on. With the help of our granddog, Ryne, we have a relaxing, fun time with them.

This weekend, we outdid ourselves on relaxing....

Cooking out on the grand new patio that they recently completed, enjoying the last day of summer vacation for the third grade teacher that is Lovely Wife, and watching a movie when the skeeters sent us packing, completed the Lazy Agenda....

Wrapping up the weekend with worship at their church, fabric shopping, Eldest Son entertaining us at Old Tyme Pottery and lunch at McAlisters, ended the well anticipated Lazy Weekend.....

As we backed out of their driveway, waving to them as they stand together on the back porch of their cozy, window boxed home, we sigh a sigh of contentment..

Thank you God.....