An Expensive Day!

It was a VERY expensive day today! I wrote a check to the Adams County Treasurer for the first 1/2 of the 2012 property taxes on the ranch. I wrote a check to the US Treasury for our 2011 income taxes. And then I wrote a check to Daughter Mary Mae for postage! MM hadn't added up her accounts for a while and we were definitely in the hole for postage. (I do try to make sure she's not having to pay up front to send our mail to us every couple of weeks, but...)

We drove over to the post office in Intercession City to send all three envelopes by Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation (that way we'll have proof of delivery). We went to that post office instead of the closer one in Loughman because we had seen a sign pointing towards a "Wildlife Viewing Area" when we were checking out the route to the airport a couple of days ago.

We saw a sign that said it was seven miles and said that it was a school environmental park. We drove that way through several miles of very nice new housing areas and three large schools. When we got there, the gate going in was closed with a sign that said it was "open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays!" You think that maybe they might have put the hours and days on some of the earlier signs?!

We did make a quick stop to gas up the Toad and to pick up milk and blueberries. I stuck a pork loin in the oven for supper and now we are switching the television between Dancing With the Stars and the Mariners/Texas Rangers game.

Running Errands

Today was a day for getting some errands done. We made a trip to the nearby Post Office at Loughman and mailed off some birthday and Easter packages. It's a funny little post office that usually has only one person working. Today it was busy -- the line of people mailing packages was out the front door. And they kept coming! When we finally left, the line was just as long as when we came...

From the post office we went to Home Depot and picked up some potting soil and a new pot for my lavender plant. I had planned to repot it this evening when it got cooler, but we got busy working on the ranch books and forgot all about it until it was pitch black outside.

These sunset pictures are from a couple of evenings ago after we had had a pretty violent thunderstorm during the early afternoon --