A Day in my life - June!

It's June!  This is one of my favorite times of the year.  No threat of snow, the sky is blue, it's usually not too hot and everything is blooming.  Here's how the first day of the month went for me.

It was a work day for me.  The morning started off beautiful, but quite warm for shortly after 7 in the morning.  I got to work and started at 7:30.  There aren't many photo ops at work, so I'll just tell you a little about the day.
It was one of those days that I planned to get a lot done.  I had no doctors coming in, so I thought I had time for that.  However, when I got there, I found they had trouble with the computer system the night before and a new admit needed everything done yet - orders put it, assessment done, med and treatment sheets printed...  The nurse working this area couldn't do it right away because mornings can be crazy.  So I worked on that, which took close to 2 hours.  Then it was time for the morning meeting, then someone wasn't doing well and needed to be sent out to the hospital, then a family member of one of our residents wanted to talk to me about some changes he was seeing in his mom...  And that's how the day went.  I got things done, just not what I thought I would!
Our girlies were going to spend the night with us, so Laura dropped them off to me at work about 4:15.  We were getting another admission, and I was working on putting in orders, so they hung out in my office and colored while I finished.  We left for home about 4:50.
Bob came home from work shortly after we did and we took the girls out for supper.

We went to Freddy's, where they chose this table because it had spinning seats.  Much of the conversation was something like - "quit spinning your seat", eat some of your chicken". "don't drink all your milk at once"!    They would have been happy with just a glass of milk and a spinning seat!

After supper we went to a park to investigate.  We've been there before, but checked out some new areas this time.  It's always fun to go with kids, because they seem to take notice of things we would just walk past.  When they got off this log, they saw a worm slithering around and were quite fascinated by it.

 Alaina found this old walnut shell and thought it looked like a pigs snout.  She's right!

Ruby saw something on the walkway and wondered what it was.  We didn't know, and she said "Maybe it's possum puke"!   I don't think so, but anything is possible!


It was very hot at this point and the mosquitos were after us.  We went home, but told the girls we would go out for ice cream later.

 We found a surprise when we got home though.  I big branch had cracked off a tree next to the house and had fallen over our gate and garage roof.

 Here's what it looked like on the other side of the gate.

The girls had to swing for a few minutes, and then we went inside while Bob checked out the tree branch.

Bob got out his chainsaw and went to work.

 while the girls took a bath.

All clean again!

When we were done with that, we went to check on Bob.  He found the reason the branch came down.  It was filled with carpenter ants!

We also saw that some of the landscape was torn up.  One of our favorite hosta's which had been looking so good was decimated, and several other plants got beaten up too.  However, nothing else was damaged.

The girls were very helpful in hauling away the branches.

 After everything was cleaned up we checked out the other flower.  The clematis and the Siberian Iris are looking so good!

One more little walk, and then it was finally time to go for ice cream.

This was the first ice cream outing of the season.  Everyone enjoyed it!

Time for jammies and a show, and then off to bed.  The girlies went to bed, but I had some things to finish first.  I had started a load of laundry earlier and had to get that done, then I had to make a dessert and some BBQ beef for the next day.  I didn't get done until about 11:30, but it was good to have it all done.
It was another good day - no injuries, lots got done, we had ice cream and time with loved ones!