Extended Visit...53º

Rusty had planned to stay for a few days after the girls left, and a trip with John to Jim Creek...He kept adding days, a shooting meet in Wallowa and vaccinating and worming horses and mules with John...He came home to eat, sleep and play cards, keeping me up until 9:30 every night...On the 4th of July with his time winding down, he got serious about my "honey do" list, then added more days before he had to go home.

The list included cleaning a rug in the back room, vacuuming the cellar stairs, thinning the apricot tree, and trimming maple tree branches, hanging over our front sidewalk, to name a few...Some how this snowballed into hauling all the rugs out of the basement, into the driveway, where he washed them with the power washer and left them hanging on the gates to dry...He set me up to vacuum the cellar stairs and that morphed into three days of cleaning and sorting...He and Herb sorted, vacuumed and cleaned...I dusted, scrubbed and vacuumed...At any given time we traded jobs and all kept plugging away...I got reprieves from the basement to cook and Herb time to do the never ending laundry, while Rusty uncover more stuff to be cleaned and sorted...By Saturday night, 2 loads had been taken to the dump, and one load, donated to Soroptimists...The basement is now rid of some of the accumulation of 46 years, after living in the same house...It is a start.

Rusty left on Sunday morning for Bend and his home and job, promising to come back for a short visit the 1st week in August, on his way to Challis, Idaho...I wonder what I will have on my "to do" list by then?...Maybe more tree trimming and possibly looking into the upstairs closets when we might uncover all kinds of treasures...Hugs To All...OWAV:)  To be continued.

PS...Sunday was a day to rest and enjoy our flowers, peonies are fading fast.

Most of the varieties in a vase.

On the bush.

Closeup.

Planter on the deck.

Petunias and Alyssum.