the stuff on my phone

I won a 6 pack of Buddy's at a meeting ...

bought this one at the yellow barn at least 5 years ago ... aged well

re-purposing the Buddy's bottle

ahh enough said

my investment club bought into this basmati rice company and well, I don't think the boys exactly knew what they were purchasing or why so ... I snapped this at Sam's club ... a 20lb bag of basmati rice .... 

the crazyness of my world continues .. today the most exciting call was a threatening telemarketer .. paint went on the walls -- weeds went to the dump and considering it all I managed to get quite a bit done.

people are

dumb.

today I am surrounded by idiots.




truly

just plain dumb.



Happy Monday.
 

Soul Sunday

Yep, it was (is) a Sunday for the soul ... a spot of patch work ... +

1.  didn't rain so I sprayed out my tank of critter control and installed some critter prevention measures. 

2.  managed to read the paper and play with my coloring books.

3.  Jean picked beans -- I picked tomato's and oversized cukes.  

4.  Kept the livestock fed and watered.

5.  Watched a cheesy movie.

6.  Took a nap.

7.   Washed dishes, vac'd floors and loaded up some more trash.  We have a lot of trash.  

8.   Attempted to irrigate the kitchen garden -- epic fail on the sprinkler ... nice chilly bath.

ancient scarecrow made from my favorite pink flannel pants.  long sad story.

the biggest so far.

dang love those sunflowers

Projects and Progress

Laundry (why, why, why) ... bedding today.

Livestock chores - complete with a newly emerged wasp colony at the chicken shack ... out came the wasp bomb ... the girls must have thought I had lost it ... but the wasps are gone and they got fed.

Picked fat green beans and fed those to the girls.  The girls are eating well today.

Patch tour ... did a bit of spot spraying ... deadheaded the sunflowers (and fed the deadheads to the chickens ...) cleaned out the back of the Rhino ...

Garbage run -- filled up the Rhino with old sprayers, trash from the house garage, junk from the porch, junk from the storage shed .... and tossed it all .... hmmm let's hope the dumpster is emptied before elder #1 realizes some of it is gone!

Test drove a new ATV ... power steering ... heaven on wheels.  Nick wasn't happy I drove it down a gravel road.  He'll adjust.

Finally got cleaned up and got to the cabin.  A brief retreat -- supper and then back home for livestock duty.  Cats this time.

Hoping for a spot of rain tonight -- we need it  .... can't believe I typed it, but we do need regular rain for at least another 3 weeks .. then it can dry out.

Tomorrow's List:

1.   Office homework.
2.   Water the kitchen garden
3.   Respray for deer in the patch.
4.   Turn vines in the patch.
5.   Sew!
6.   Vac & Dust

ah, the life of a Diva

a synopsis of yesterday ...

1.  shower and head to office  (forgot to feed the chickens and the cats)

2.  start the de-forestation of the flower beds -- 2 pick-up truck loads to the compost pile.  Mind you -- it was only 1 1/2 of the beds.

3.  take shower and attend meeting -- wouldn't want the assorted attendee's to faint from the aroma wafting off of me. 

4.  grocery store at 5:00pm  I must have been nuts.

5.  into the patch to spray for deer ... spraying the smelly stuff ... and yes, the sprayer nozzle had issues ... and it was a bit warm and ...

6.  get everything cleaned up and put away

7.  and shower #3 on the day ... wth.  3 complete changes of clothes, 3 showers ... but


flower beds look good
6 rows of melons and the cantaloupe smell unattractive. 
chickens and cats got fed -- late, and they all lived thru it.
5 bags of trash got dumped ...

I'm on a roll peeps... can't wait to see what happens today ....


 

sunflower Sunday

yowser

  So last night I was planning out the clothes for the week (ya, I'm that anal) and plotting the wardrobe against the meeting calendar (see previous comment) ... and realized.

  Something has happened every single day in July.  No wonder I'm tired and extremely cranky --- I've been complaining whining about not getting my project pile done -- there is a reason.  So far next week (as in the first week in August) looks mostly empty. 

  Seriously every freeking day in July had a meeting, a client meeting, a family event .... a deadline .... 

  So here I sit typing and whining about it.

  Argh.

  I added new quilts to the "50 quilts in 2015" page I'd link to it if I know how (more whining) ... I finished a spot of binding Friday night.

  Saturday was dedicated to the patch ... finished spraying out a bit of weed control (emptied the tank) and sprayed out a bit of deer control .... then I pounded in 12 T posts for the scarecrows .... they are "dressed" and in service.   There is pictures over on Facebook ... find the Watermelon Diva page. 

  Sunday was lake day --

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