Where To Begin.....

It's been 3 weeks since my last posting. Honestly, every time I think I'm going to be faster at getting postings done, but everything else seems to take priority. There has been a steady stream of contractors, claims adjusters, and decorators thru this house for the last 3 weeks. It seems like forever since I had a quiet day to myself. But, we have a plan now and people to make it happen. This week the drywall got repaired and tomorrow the painter is coming to start repainting the room. The floor has been ordered and will be installed next Thursday. Yeah ! I think I see the light at the end of the tunnel. We have also made plans to do some work in the sunroom while the painter is here. And I'm looking at some flooring samples for that room also. (Waiting for the samples to actually get to the decorator so she can show them to me.)

Jean and Betsy were here on August 31 and we had so much fun! Spent the next day on a road trip to the Woolen Needle in Williamsburg. Neither had been there before so it was fun to show them. It's a cool shop and was chosen to be featured in the Quilt Sampler magazine this fall. I had just been there 2 or 3 weeks prior so I tried not to buy much.


We had a fun Labor Day weekend. Jennifer and family from Olathe, KS were here. The girls are always so much fun. Lots of energy. Lucy the miniature poodle was a farm dog for a couple of days and really seemed to enjoy all the wide open spaces. She ran and ran and was so tired Saturday morning Jennifer had to wake her up to go outside. We had one tense moment when we couldn't find her. Bailey freaked out thinking she may have gotten on the road, but as it turned out, we found her in the basement. Apparently she followed someone down there and while she was snooping around, they come up and shut the door.




Chuck had an opportunity to show off his mower and trailer. Anyone interested got a ride all over the yard and up and down the ditch. Of course, Jen, Bailey and Olivia were eager to try it out!!









Mike and Stacey were here and we spent Sunday outside playing lawn games. Had a pit fire both nites and roasted some of those huge marshmallows. They turned out to be kind of a disaster. Olivia had trouble getting them off the sticks and some ended up in the drive. Anyway, it was way too much marshmallow for a s'more! Told a couple of ghost stories around the campfire and just enjoyed being outside. It was a beautiful weekend.








Jennifer and Wes













Bailey



The garden is about done. The zinnias were really pretty this summer and they are the last color I have except the squash and pumpkins. My tomatoes did get blight, but I keep picking a few small ones occasionally. Enough to have on salads, anyway.

The beans didn't do as well as I expected. Oh, well, next Spring when it's time to plant garden we'll be here and can get things in earlier. Waiting for the next rain so I can dig my carrots. They are ready and I just have to decide what to do with them. I've never canned carrots; maybe I'll try that this year.


We've started cleaning off the garden. Removed the supports for the peonies and cut them back. We have a couple more things to remove. There's a bush that looks like it's on it's last leg. Just need to have someone tell me what it is because I really like the shape of it and would like to replace it with another. Of course, I haven't been very diligent with the weeding this last hot month. So there are lots of weeds to get pulled. I will be transplanting my poppies. And we need to get started preparing for a new raspberry patch. We're going to move it out into a sunny spot in the yard so I have more room for 'row crops'.

That's going to be it for now. Til later.....