Cloudless Saturday in Kansas City

We all slept in a bit this morning, getting up around 7:30.  As usual, Marlena was up and at it, working on her Turkey Journal, while sitting on Evie's lap.  She decided to have her Turkey go with us on our excursion to the creek, and drew of picture of this.  She then finished her paint by numbers picture, one which she had been working on for the past week.  She is amazingly patient and careful, not in a hurry, which is unusual for a 7 year old.  Both she and Evie got the frame ready, then placed the painting in the sunlight to dry.  Mary worked on picking out pictures to download, and Tom and I looked for a movie for tonight on Apple TV.

Our dinner last night with the Burlingames was great, the tenderloin done just right, the cauliflower quiche rich, almost too much so.  I enjoyed talking with Mike Burlingame quite a bit, as he is an interesting guy, with lots of interests.  They got here about 6:00 and left around 10:30 because by that time, after beer and wine, we were all getting tired.  Nick and Peyton, the Burlingame's son, also had a good time, though they spent a good part of the night downstairs playing games on TV.

We have not been very energetic here for some reason, not venturing out to do things other than go grocery shopping or retail shopping.  We did go exploring our first day to Longview Lake, where we found what looked like some good walking trails, but we have not been back since. It's a beautiful day again, though from the weather report, Chautauqua may be getting up to a foot of snow today.  It does not look as though it should bother our trip home on Sunday and Monday but I will keep an eye on it.  I cannot believe we missed the first major snow fall at the lake. Both Evie and I enjoy the falling snow, being snowed in for part of a day, perhaps a day, but that's it.