KANSAS CITY HERE I COME and THOMAS HART BENTON HOUSE

TIME FOR MY SIX MONTH CANCER FOLLOW-UP APPOINTMENT IN KANSAS CITY.  We headed out early Thursday to get labs done in Manhattan for HUBBY.  This went rather smoothly.  Then straight away, we went to Kansas City early enough to eat LUNCH at a neat restaurant called HOME GROWN.

https://homegrownkitchen.com

It was located close to the medical facility I needed to go at two.  Ate a nice lunch then went to the appointment.  I had roasted veggies that were soooo good I wished I had more and a small bowl of fruit.  Water.  It would be afterwards that I got into trouble with thin Mint Oreos.  I know it was nervousness that assisted me in munching on these lil darlings.  

My appointment went well and I have no complaints about the visit.  I'll return in 6 months.  

We stayed the night and went out for a nice DINNER.  By the time I got back to the room I was zonked.  Between the traveling, the emotional side of the Cancer FOLLOW-UP appointment, the traffic...I was spent.  I woke around 4 in the morning took a shower and went back to bed.  Slept till 8.  Ready for the day.

We made plans to tour the Thomas Hart Benton House and Studio State Historic Site.  The surrounding neighborhood area is so beautiful.  Lovely to behold.

A very nice tour.  Fully furnished beautiful house with a carriage house used as the 5'3" artist's studio.  I have admired this artist's work so to see his studio was a treat.  Many original pieces of artwork plus some copies were throughout their home.  It was truly a treat to me to see the house filled with domestic things and my Husband seeing so much art.  

The house was purchased outright after his career picked up.

These pics were on the internet as my camera was dead.

Studio

Rita's Bedroom with FROST PINK colored walls.  Her go to color.

 

Living room

Dining room

Thomas Hart Benton's Studio

Entryway

Upstairs

Drove HOME and ate cheap on the road.  Stopped at SAMs in Topeka as we drove through.  It was a much needed stretch for our legs.  Needed disposable coffee cups, potatoes, butter.  I picked up a winter sweater that's blue with snow flake image on it.  Yes.  I bought it.  Being a quick stop so we could get HOME before the rain came.  Temps are dipping so the Geraniums have been moved indoors.  Temporarily they are sitting in the Living room until I have room in the TV room later this month THEN they will be moved into there.

I drove the majority of the time and when I reached HOME, I sat in the car talking to my Sister on the phone.  Hubby unloaded our things and brought the porch's Geraniums inside.  I am now officially worn out.

Hubby is worn out from our medical trip, but this week-end he hopes to pick up where he left off in the cellar and she shed.  I am still wrapping crystal to pack so Mom's china cabinet can be filled with dishes.  I have to walk through my ideas in my head.  I can see the dishes sitting pretty waiting to be admired.  This move has been so slow, but that's alright.  We will get there eventually.

With the election behind us and the Holidays before us, we have plans a cooking.  I am in high hopes of having the front Bedroom set up, the middle Bedroom arranged as a TV room, the she shed arranged with Bedroom furniture, the cellar housing monster racks full of plastic storage boxes and last, but not least, the Christmas tree set up with greenery to follow.  When all of this is done, we will take a break and wait for nice weather in January to continue clearing out storage units.  It has to be done and we're the ones to do it.  We have to deal with the reality of organizing THINGS that need turned loose of us.  

Here's to a productive week-end,

~d