I woke up this morning with yet another migraine. Urgh! This is becoming a habit. The hotter the summer gets, the worse these things are. I did pull myself out of bed to spend some time with Lex and my sister before they both went to work. I spent a little time puttering around the house, taking the dogs outside, folding the laundry, and making the guest bed before realizing that I really wasn’t feeling any better, so I laid down to rest and stayed down for about an hour and a half. When I got up, the headache was gone, thank goodness. I’m not ready to deal with another all-day migraine like the one I had Saturday.
By this time, it was after noon, so I went out and grabbed lunch for Lex and me. After we ate, I took our two dogs and the clean wash and went back to the campground. The dogs refuse to eat here at my sister’s house. I think there’s just too much going on. But as soon as I let them inside the RV and put some food down for them, they chowed down like college kids at a free buffet.
I’m glad we decided to stay at Lynn’s place because today was up around 100 degrees with even higher heat indexes, and with the direct sun blazing down on it, our A/C unit just couldn’t keep the camper cool enough. The thermometer registered 92 degrees…inside! I made sure to leave plenty of food and a huge bowl of water with ice cubes floating in it for the cat who seemed no worse for the wear. She actually enjoys the heat where the dogs do not. After ten minutes, Otis and Ivy were on the floor panting giving me looks that said, “Can we leave now and go back to the other place?” They weren’t alone. I put away the laundry, got a change of clothes, saw to the cat, and got the hell out of there.
Tomorrow and Thursday will probably be two of the hottest days of the year here in North Texas, and we’ll be here to “enjoy” them! Heat indexes are supposed to soar from 110-115 degrees! My sister is off tomorrow afternoon, and we’d planned to go geocaching and sight-seeing initially. I’m beginning to think that is a bad idea. Neither of us needs a nasty case of heat stroke. We talked about it, and I think we’ll visit some nice indoor museums with central air instead. The mere 94 degrees Baltimore is currently experiencing seems relatively chilly by comparison!
I got back to Lynn’s just a little while before Shay returned home from her business trip. She was exhausted and went to go change clothes while I grabbed a shower. Lex finished working and Lynn came home, and before you know it, all four of us were headed to dinner at their favorite neighborhood place, Kirby’s. It’s clear that my sister and her partner spend a lot of time at Kirby’s because all the wait staff and a number of the customers knew them. It was like we walked into Cheers with Cliff and Norm (if Cliff and Norm were really cool, good-looking lesbians)!
We had cocktails (well, they did…I had club soda) and then dinner. Dinner was incredible. Kirby’s is a steakhouse, and they do meat really well. They also make some mean mushroom risotto and a luscious amaretto creme brulee. So, yet again, Lynn and Shay managed to stuff us to the gills and spoil us to death. They really have been lovely.
I bought them a little flower arrangment today to say thank you, but it’s hardly enough, honestly. They’ve been so gracious and, despite the fact that they both are incredibly busy at their respective jobs, have made time to hang out with us. Even if they hadn’t wined us and dined us half to death, the fact that we got some QT with them both would have been more than enough. Plus, their nice, soft guest bed with its private bath hasn’t hurt, either!
When we got home from the restaurant, Lex and I sat with Lynn in the living room and watched some episodes of “The Big Bang Theory.” We’re all fans. Everyone is heading to bed now, and up until a moment ago, I was surrounded by four cute dogs on the upstairs sofa. Shay had to come looking for her two little devils because they didn’t want to budge. Ivy has been a little jealous of the two dachshunds wanting to cuddle up with us. How dare anyone else cuddle with her mamas! Even though she was irked, she still played nice with the puppies. There has been very little fussing amongst the dogs today. They seem to get along quite well, thankfully. I’m also pleased that Ivy and Otis have been good houseguests so far. I hope they can keep it up through tomorrow when we will take them back home to the RV.
Lynn has offered us the opportunity to come and stay at their lake house the next time we’re in the area. Apparently, the next-door neighbor there has full RV hookups and will let us rent her site for relatively little. We can park the RV there and stay in the lake house. They have a boat and jetskis and a lovely place there, so it’s a mighty generous offer. We may have to figure out how to swing a trip back here sometime in the next year!
Well, one more full day in Texas before heading back East on Thursday! I believe tomorrow there will be Mexican food, or, as I like to think of it, our last real meal before returning to Tex-Mex-deprived Baltimore.
