8-27-16 Almost Finished

Trying out Luigi's Italian Restaurant

Wow, Larry is almost done with moving and converting the sprinkler heads on one side of the front yard. This morning Larry decided to go out and finish up the sprinkler head that is next to the huge rock, he gave up digging out the rock, the more he dug the further it went, he ended up moving the head to the left of the rock and then I helped him cover up the hole. Before putting the dirt back into the hole Larry surrounded the piping with sand, then we put in dirt and finally the sod that he had removed. We then spread some of the new dirt on top to fill everything in, the new dirt was very wet, but we spread it the best we could. We'll wait until it dries and then we'll rake it some more. We don't want the dirt to kill the grass. There is one more sprinkler left in this part of the yard that he wants to do. Larry thinks it will be easier.

Plumbed around the giant rock

Putting the sod back in place

Smoothing out the dirt

The first annual Temple Transcontinental Art Fair is going on this weekend. After Larry cooled off we headed for town. The event took place at the Temple Railroad & Heritage Museum. Most of the artists had their booths inside the museum building. The artists displayed their paintings and theirs wares. One booth had some wooden trains, planes, dinosaurs, tanks, navy airplane carriers and many more items. The artist was selling them in kits that came with the assembly parts and glue, they were very cool. There was another booth that had a couple of lights on display. The lights came on when you moved a lever counter clockwise, Larry tried one and it worked super. We walked around and looked at all the art, a couple of booths were outside. While we were there The Amtrak train was in the depot picking up passengers and I was able to take a few pictures of it. It was starting to pull away when a passenger came running to catch the train. They radioed the engineer and he stopped the train. They had to unlock the gate and put a step out so the passenger could board, this was neat to watch. As we were walking around we stopped and listened to The Schade Tree Band. They sang folk songs and were very good. We were getting hungry and there were food trucks there but we decided it was too hot to eat outside. There was suppose to be an antique car show but the cars didn't show up. This was disappointing but we saw a lot of nice art and I got a free recycle bag at a booth. 

The back end of the train

The front end of the train

One of the passenger cars

The Schade Tree Band

On the way home we swung by The Home Depot to pick up a few items we need for the next sprinkler head. While we were walking back to the car both Larry and I were getting hungry. We have been meaning to try out a few restaurants in Belton but never seem to get around to it. We knew there was an Italian restaurant across the street from the high school so that's where we stopped for lunch. The restaurant was called Luigi's Italian Restaurant. We had the sampler, it came with lasagna, manicotti, ziti, tortellini and beef ravioli. We shared the dish and we liked it except for the lasagna, it was a little mushy but their rolls were delicious. When we got home Flo was waiting in the hall for us. She was one happy dog.

Guardians of the Galaxy DVD

Ultimate Plush Pippin-Deep Dish Apple Pie

The rest of the day we hung around the house. I worked on my puzzle and Larry read. Yesterday was Larry's birthday so I baked an apple pie but we didn't eat it until today for our dessert. In the evening we watched YouTube videos and our dvd Guardians of the Galaxy. It was an action movie made by Marvel. We have watched it before but we still enjoyed watching it again. LIFE IS GOOD!!!!