Sunshine Sunday

Awesome sunshine today. It is beautiful, with a small chill in the air. This has been a nice week. No ballgames, due to the rain. We got rain all week long, even a little bit yesterday. Work went well this week, with not too many glitches. Elizabeth did not have to go to school on Friday - scheduled snow day. Since the school did not use their two allotted snow days, they are using them at the end of the year. She will be off on Monday also. We slept late on Friday, did laundry and just slugged around the house. It was a really nice day. Eric had to work. Grandma fixed supper for the Barne's clan for Ross's birthday. She made fried deer steak, fried okra, candied sweet potatoes, corn, mashed potatoes and gravy, and wonderful yeast rolls. Oh it was soooo good. Mom had also went to the Greek Food festival for lunch on Friday and bought some baklava and shared with those of us who have a fine pallet. The men and boys didn't want any, but that's OK, more for me. After supper, the girls stayed with mom and dad and Eric and I went to the dirt track races in Monticello. Eric has a cousin that has been involved in dirt track racing longer than I have known Eric. Now Dale's son is racing, and so we went to see him. The problem with dirt track racing, is that it goes long into the night. It wasn't over until 12:30 and we didn't get home until 2am. We then had to get a shower because we were covered in dirt. Even though the rain has saturated the ground, it was dusty at the track.

Saturday, after sleeping in late, Eric went to run errands and finish working on his Ranger at Bradley's. I went to see what was happening on Barne's Hill. The girls were playing on a mound of field dirt that mom and dad have covered with a tarp to keep the rain from washing it away. They were soaking wet because they were standing at the top of the mound with a water hose and sliding down. Mr Roy Harrington was there and stated "They're tougher than a nickle steak." After lunch, mom and I took the girls with us to a nursery in the small town of Ouchita. My friend Penny has built me a raised garden box and now that it has stopped raining, I have got to get it planted. I didn't find much there, but I found lots of great flowers. On the way there, we spotted a u-pick strawberry field. We stopped and picked for about an hour and got some great strawberries. When we got home we sat around eating strawberries and saying our good buys to Grandma Barnes. She left today for her summer job in Yellowstone. We will miss her sooo much. I can't wait for October, when she will come back.