Another hard night last night with leg cramps. I'm not sure why that happens at night but when it does it is shocking. 5:00 am came all too soon. I'm thankful for the coffee maker that has hot coffee ready to be poured into a mug as soon as I roll out of bed. This morning we left at 8:15 am for the 3 hour trip to Elgin arriving at Jon's house at 11:15 am. We went right to work with me weeding and Mark weed whacking. The length and thickness of the grass in the yard was impressive.
It was tall enough to bale but of course we had no way to do that.
Jon has not been able to work for a while and was in the hospital a week and has now been moved to rehab for the next 20 days. Everything was overgrown.
Kim arrived after noon and opened the garage doors so Mark could get the riding mower out. I was able to use the wheel barrow to dump the weeds in the backburn pile.
Kim and I also got some cleaning done inside the house. We were ready to quit around 4:00 pm so we could go visit Jon at the rehab facility. He was surprised to see us but glad we came. After a nice visit we left for home but stopped at a restaurant called Just Kabobs in St. Charles, IL for dinner. 
Mark checked the reviews and it was a 4.7 with almost 2000 reviews. Those reviews were RIGHT. The food was awesome, delicious, healthy, quickly served and a good price. We each bought a meal and for the 2 of us the bill came to $20.00. Below is Mark's meal.
Mine is pictured below.
Mark ordered the gyro plate and I ordered a combo plate, which was the gyro plate with one chicken kabob added. We split that kabob. Neither of us finished our meal but we for sure finished the meat and vegetables. If we go back up again we will for sure stop again. It really was a good value.
On the way home we got stopped by a commuter train. The barriers were already down, the lights flashing and we could hear the train horn blowing but no train was in sight. After watching a while we realized the sound was coming from speakers not a train but sure enough soon the train arrived.
We left this morning with a full tank of gas and would not have needed to stop for gas but when we got to Chilicothe Mark wanted to stop and get a drink so we filled up the car too. It cost $26.00 to go all the way to Elgin and then back to Chilicothe (about 340 miles). You just can't beat a Prius.
When we reached Maxwell Rd I had to whip out the camera to take the picture below of the sun setting.
The camera just doesn't capture the red setting sun. Thankful to make it home safely and thankful for what got done today. We are both more than ready to head to our oh so comfortable bed.
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