7:15 a.m.
I've had such a "time sure flies when you're having fun" past two weeks! Although it wasn't all fun!
I had my backsplash replaced in my kitchen a few weeks ago. It was this old travertine FLOOR tile........yep! The prior owners of my house were really big into DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING DIY projects and they put this nasty floor tile on the kitchen wall WITH WOOD FLOOR quarter round moldings. OMG I've hated that forever! So we finally changed it out. Using GLASS mosaics. We didn't do it, I hired a handyman place to send someone to do it. Backsplash is something I absolutly can't stand doing. I'm slow and the grouting is the WORST task possible! Plus, cutting glass mosaics isn't something we want to do. Wo we hired this company and the two guys who came out did it super fast, but made a few boo boos. They had to come back the next day and quite honestly, they made a tremendous GLASS SHARDS mess! It was awful! I can't tell you how many times I swept, vacuumed, mopped trying to get all the glass shards up. They had to come back and cut the outlet boxes a little bigger because the recepticle boxes wouldn't screw into the drywall because they were blocked by the glass mosaics!! Can I just say IDIOTS?? Ok, that wasn't very nice of me, but OMG buy cutting the glass mosaics around the outlet boxes INSIDE with a GRINDER of all things.........it just made glass shreds fly EVERYFRIGGINWHERE!!!!
Did I tell you I had a robin's nest in my backyard? Well it was about 10' or so from my backdoor. And it was at the top of a support column for my patio roof, but under the roof. So I've been able to birdwatch for the last month and a half or so. I really enjoyed watching them, yep, I'm officially a birdwatcher
The mom and dad had three eggs, which all hatched and I got to witness everything from hatching to leaving the nest! Those baby robins just grew so fast! In two weeks they were nearly full size! I was so worried when they left the nest that they would fall on the concrete below and crack their heads open, so I put my outdoor bench swing cushions down on the ground. And then when they left the nest, they FLEW right across my yard to the grass by the back fence! They left one at a time, in a period of two days. Two of them were quick learners, they were on the ground just a few hours. But the third one spent the night on the ground. He eventually got the hang of it and flew away. "Daddy" Robin kept trying to lead him up and over the fence. I was worried they were gonna crash into my pool and drown! Yep, I am truly a worry wart. OMG that phrase just age dated me didn't it? I don't think it's used much anymore. When the birds left the nest, we went out and took it down. Although I loved watching them, it just made me ansy about something happening to them. Besides, we go in and out of that door ALOT, and they were dive bombing my little dog everytime we took her out to potty and poop! Myrtle (my dog) wasn't happy with the birds at all
BUT, they were such cuties!! With the birds gone, it was time to clean out all the wasp nests that we hadn't been able to get. Didn't want to use raid spray with the birds there. There were THREE of them on my patio. A yellow jacket nest, and two red mahogany wasp nests! They are the mean ones! RIP wasps! My husband got them with RAID and his foot (he stepped on them when they fell out of the wasp nest and then crushed the larvae when he got the nest down) and I got the ones that tried to fly away with my BUG-A-SALT gun
It's an air gun that you use regular table salt in and you can shoot the bugs! It does take 9-10 shots to kill wasps though. Apparently they make a C02 gun for wasps, but I don't want that one, I just use the salt one. I just have to make sure that I am near the backdoor incase the little shits don't drop fast cuz they DO come after me until they go down! I just run in the house and "neener neener neener" them through the window I'm hoping to use my pool today. Fingers crossed! It's only 88, but it's super HOT here. (I like the pool to be 90-93 or so. My husband say's I'm weird
He likes it to be in the mid 80's.)
I had one of my grandkids spend a few days here last week. He kept me busy for sure! We had spray bottle soaker wars. In the yard, thankfully, not in my living room
He outsmarted me though. Told me he needed a drink and came inside and got my four cup measuring cup, filled it, and went back outside and dumped it on me!! That's something sneaky I WOULD have done! I told him he was definitely the winner! When I think of being "retired", I think of having nothing to do and sitting around being bored. But that's definitely not my life! I'm having the time of my life with everything, and that includes shooting slutty content for you! Who would've ever thunk it?
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