We escaped to Galena for the weekend...ahhhh

Yesterday was my husband's annual golf outing to raise money for the

Chicago Police Memorial Foundation

I tried to learn how to golf.....don't laugh you golfers

my instructor laughed...said I didn't have muscle memory

like in Little League Baseball boy memory.....girls didn't play way back then

and I don't think I would have anyway...even if I could

Anyway....I stink at golf

so yesterday I was like a duck swimming in cameras (did ya like that one?..clever use of photo?)

It was a fun day anyway....hanging around at dinnertime with the other

female non golfers....looking cute (as cute as a woman of my age can look :)

It was a long day....finishing with lights off for us at almost midnight

midnight.....yikes.......and up at 5:30 to get up and out the door by 6:30

My husband got dressed,packed his clothes for the weekend and pulled the car out of the garage

I had to make coffee.....clean up the coffee pot...take out the garbage,feed the cats..clean their boxes

make the bed....I always make the bed before leaving

ever since I heard my neighbor talking at a BBQ about how messy some people's houses are

!!!!

anyway...I continued with other various household duties necessary before leaving

while he- who- must- be- ignored.....sat in the car sipping coffee, listening to the radio

phew.....that felt good snitching and whining

 We passed throught the most awful looking cloud formation...ominous and dark...dark dark

but as soon as we hit the lovely valleys of northweat Illinois...it was blue skies all the way

corn fields and soybean fields as lush as any that I can remember

and large amounts of cows and sheep in the pastures

and green, green ,green as far as the eye could see

But there were signs that things will be changing soon

signs like  OCTOBEREST

HALLOWEEN

PUMPKINS

Not yet........not yet