Good Morning, All!!
All I've managed to do so far this morning is fill hummingbird feeders, feed indoor and outdoor cats, and make a pot of coffee. I've got the side porch door open to do a little air exchange, but I won't be able to keep it open for long. It's supposed to be another scorcher in the 90's today, but at least there is a chance of rain in the forecast - it says isolated thunderstorms and scattered thunderstorms for today; then rain or a chance of rain daily through Thursday. I'll take it - I really don't want to have to water the gardens. I probably should go out and till between the rows; but the weed pressure isn't horrible and I've done what weeding in the actual rows of plants that absolutely has to be done by hand and hoe as I didn't want to lose any of the soil moisture that was below the top, dry portion.
The feral Mama Kitty has been teaching her kittens to hunt - they were dragging around a small, dead rabbit last evening. I'm not at all fond of rodents or things that eat my garden, so I am cheering them on - at least as long as they stay away from the birds that I feed. I have a Mama Wren with a nest in my grape arbor near the kitchen door; the kittens will get squirted with the water bottle if they bother her; she helps takes care of the skeeters in that area of the porch.
I won't get much else useful done today as I've got the two younger grandsons underfoot - or at least they will be once they wake up. Older one wants to cook something; I'm planning to suggest cookies or muffins as that will have the oven on for only a short period of time. Oldest grandson is home for a month, recuperating from surgery - I think daughter is counting down the days until he is healed enough to be on his own and the younger two go back to school. And speaking of school - we got the school supplies last night; under $200 for the two boys (I left it up to daughter to buy the fancy-schmancy calculator for the middle boy; I'd get the wrong thing for sure!) Middle grandson needed 5 folders - he bought 5 that were the same type/color. I tried explaining to him that he might want different colors so he'd know what subject each was for; nope. Must have got that hard headed gene from the paternal line; goodness knows we don't have any of that in my line.... cough, cough... Daughter asked me to hold off on picking up the extra two sets of supplies that I'd planned to get as the boys have a couple of friends that may need them, so I will do a run to get them as soon as she gives me the word. She'd better do it fast as we had to make a foray into the office supply section to find a couple of things.
I'm starting a 3 inna row stretch at work tomorrow evening - not looking forward to it, but I do get 6 days off before I have to do another 3 inna row so I can't complain too much. I've been adding up my vacation hours and have enough to cover my two vacations this fall, but am going to need to add a few for the knee surgery that I know is going to have to happen sometime in the near future.
Well, I'd better post this and then go hide - Papaw makes breakfast on Sunday when the boys are here, so I'm getting out of the way
Take care all; stay safe - wishing you all a good week!
All I've managed to do so far this morning is fill hummingbird feeders, feed indoor and outdoor cats, and make a pot of coffee. I've got the side porch door open to do a little air exchange, but I won't be able to keep it open for long. It's supposed to be another scorcher in the 90's today, but at least there is a chance of rain in the forecast - it says isolated thunderstorms and scattered thunderstorms for today; then rain or a chance of rain daily through Thursday. I'll take it - I really don't want to have to water the gardens. I probably should go out and till between the rows; but the weed pressure isn't horrible and I've done what weeding in the actual rows of plants that absolutely has to be done by hand and hoe as I didn't want to lose any of the soil moisture that was below the top, dry portion.
The feral Mama Kitty has been teaching her kittens to hunt - they were dragging around a small, dead rabbit last evening. I'm not at all fond of rodents or things that eat my garden, so I am cheering them on - at least as long as they stay away from the birds that I feed. I have a Mama Wren with a nest in my grape arbor near the kitchen door; the kittens will get squirted with the water bottle if they bother her; she helps takes care of the skeeters in that area of the porch.
I won't get much else useful done today as I've got the two younger grandsons underfoot - or at least they will be once they wake up. Older one wants to cook something; I'm planning to suggest cookies or muffins as that will have the oven on for only a short period of time. Oldest grandson is home for a month, recuperating from surgery - I think daughter is counting down the days until he is healed enough to be on his own and the younger two go back to school. And speaking of school - we got the school supplies last night; under $200 for the two boys (I left it up to daughter to buy the fancy-schmancy calculator for the middle boy; I'd get the wrong thing for sure!) Middle grandson needed 5 folders - he bought 5 that were the same type/color. I tried explaining to him that he might want different colors so he'd know what subject each was for; nope. Must have got that hard headed gene from the paternal line; goodness knows we don't have any of that in my line.... cough, cough... Daughter asked me to hold off on picking up the extra two sets of supplies that I'd planned to get as the boys have a couple of friends that may need them, so I will do a run to get them as soon as she gives me the word. She'd better do it fast as we had to make a foray into the office supply section to find a couple of things.
I'm starting a 3 inna row stretch at work tomorrow evening - not looking forward to it, but I do get 6 days off before I have to do another 3 inna row so I can't complain too much. I've been adding up my vacation hours and have enough to cover my two vacations this fall, but am going to need to add a few for the knee surgery that I know is going to have to happen sometime in the near future.
Well, I'd better post this and then go hide - Papaw makes breakfast on Sunday when the boys are here, so I'm getting out of the way
Take care all; stay safe - wishing you all a good week!
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Cary just had to get the shovel, and get a 4ft. snake off our front porch!!!!! I had the front door open, but our dog alerted us to its presence! He said it was nonpoisonous, though. He took it off to the woods, and let it go. If that thing had have got in the house, I would have let the snake have the house!!!! I ran out the back door, anyway!
Need to pay better attention.
I'm almost the same way with spiders.
Yeah, I worry when you/others don't show up on time! I was concerned that you might have fallen again.
Probably won't get anymore, though, the vines are dying. We planted way too late, but are hopeful for next year. Since pulling up all the old tomato plants, we're already working on those raised beds. It's too hot to do much right now, except early in the mornings, but it's getting done. I don't plan to use them this fall, unless, I sow some mustard or turnip seed. That's very possible if we can get more rain.