Great weekend

Ready for Jessie's certain kind of company!

Seriously?

At the Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum

At the foot of the Survivor Tree, OKC Bombing Memorial

Jessie and Linda came into town on Saturday.

When Jessie stepped out of the van and into my arms, we both burst into tears, and I felt instantly, utterly loved.

My nerves had been rattled, just in general from stress at work, etc...but I was also anxious about having house guests; would there be enough of the right kind of food, drink, stuff to do.... but all of that vanished when I saw her.

We instantly fell into our comfortable way of being together. The tequila helped with that, but, honestly, we were already in that zone before we ever opened the bottle.

Eventually, chicken and asparagus was grilled, and the laughter began.

Linda, Jessie's mom, is hilarious, and their rapport with one another is unique, to say the least.

We laughed for pretty much the whole time they were here. Except when we cried, or slept...hah!!

There was just enough to do, and the weather was mostly cooperative.

It was super hot (90 something, I think) on Sunday, when we went down to Norman to the Medieval Faire. Hot, dusty wind made us thirsty and overheated, and probably caused us to go home earlier than anticipated, but that was okay. We stopped at a pub and had some cool drinks and a late lunch. Home made Albondigas soup for supper....YUM!

Monday, we did breakfast at Cattlemen's, visited the Memorial, and a western store (where the above box with the sign is), and did some OKC sight seeing. Then came home, left over soup for lunch, and a long, relaxing afternoon...and then, we played Trivial Pursuit for most of the evening. Somewhere in there, I cooked up some smoked turkey sausage and peppers.

Mostly, though, we laughed.

Tuesday, it poured rain almost all day, perfect for the Cowboy museum. Then, that night, dinner at our favorite Ethiopian restaurant, then home for a viewing of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

It turned out to be just the right amount of running around doing stuff, and hanging out at home, just relaxing and having fun. (and for most of us, drinking and taking naps as well! Giggle!)

Jessie brought some of her favorite local craft brewed beers, which we drank all up, and some lovely soap (which I want more of!), a jar of locally made jam, which we loved at breakfast, and, finally, some hot fudge sauce, and some wine, both of which still haven't been opened.

They left here on Wednesday morning, when I had to go back to work. Dave took Wednesday off, though, and was here to help them load up their stuff, and to take down the air bed we borrowed for them to use.

The time spent in the company of Jessie restored a certain part of me to myself. It was very, very good medicine.