Fun week so far

The fever I ran monday, accompanied by joint aches, had me a little nervous. But I recovered without oinking by evening, so all is well. I think it was just a reaction from the allergy meds getting out of my system.

Yesterday afternoon I took a short nap and was sitting outside drinking some coffee and having a smoke, never knowing until I went in to cool off, that the power was out. The humidity has been in the 80% range the past week, so temps in the upper 80's has been very uncomfortable. I don't know how you get the "feels like" temp from that. The power was out for over half an hour and with a breeze blowing, it was nicer outside. They said a breaker had thrown and didn't know why. For us, that means this will keep on happening until the breaker breaks. That day will probably be on the hottest day of the year and will take a couple of hours to get it going. I think on that day I will just get dressed and go somewhere....shopping in the city or something.

For Bev.....my camera will not capture the intense blue of bluebonnets. I have rarely seen a photograph taken of them that actually captures the color. It is something that can only be painted or seen in person. And the smell....whoa....like lilacs in the air.

Today's picture is of one batch of iris that are blooming. I will have to post a pic of the yellow ones later. They don't stay with the plant long. I snip the stalks and bring them in the house to enjoy. I love it when a dark purple one and a yellow one are blooming at the same time. So pretty together in a vase.

On an Easter Sunday afternoon.....

You would think you could crawl into bed with your dog and cat and get a nice sunday afternoon nap. You would think. If you don't have an asshat for a neighbor.

He dug two holes, put crap in them, covered them up, shuffled dirt from here to there, and restacked a huge pile of garbage. Asshat.
CUBEDOG: Ok, I will no longer complain about my suburban neighbors with their early morning lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and circular saws.

It's never easy

I finally splurged and bought a pool. It was on sale about $50 off and I was tired of the sweltering heat and nothing to do but get in the shower or stand outside and squirt the hose in the air. Thing is....I didn't realize what I was getting myself into. I tried to pick the model that would be the easiest for me to set up by myself. Since the box was faded out from laying in the sun at the store, it was hard to decipher what the details were.
I picked a spot....and laid out the ground cover. Rut-roh.

Nice spot, but not big enough. So I looked around and got out the big tape measure and found a spot.

The fence is no problem. I have a roll of dense sun screening fabric that my friend at the plant store sold me. I can tie it up to the fence for privacy. The problem is......the area has to be level. Double Rut-roh. For the next few mornings and maybe evenings when it is cool, I have to get out there and dig and hoe until I get the area clean and level. Ugh! And can you see that dark spot to the left of the area? That isn't a rock, that is a cedar stub. I am hoping I can knock it down without having to dig to China to get it out. That is in addition to the rocks to dig up.

So, I suppose if I am diligent and don't give myself heatstroke, I may have my pool set up by sometime next week.

It's never easy for me in the Rocktown Subdivision of Southern Podunk.

btw...for the uninitiated.....yes, that is a Ford pickup bed in the edge of the picture. That, my friends, is the truck farm. When hubby replaced the bed on a pickup he had years ago, I insisted that the bed go in the backyard because I could fill it with soil and it would be deeper than any place I have around here. It has served me well. I just didn't work it this year. Too many other things got in the way of time to do a vege garden.
Cubedog: Too bad your carport is already full. Then you'd have shade as well.

What would be easier-digging to China or laying down a sand bed? Hmmmm? Personally, I'd be finding out where I could get a big load of sand delivered from.

Otter: Well, sand would be nice, but the instructions say not to use sand. Got to be a solid base. Oh, and carport is sloping also. Screwed all the way around.

My Pain Never Ends

Remember when I moaned endlessly about the tv for each eyeball? I was so glad when we got that settled. Then last month The Clueless One came home with a new toy cuz all his friends had this new toy and he wanted one. Of course, it came in the disguise of a gift for me (too bad you can't see my eyes roll). Needless to say, this didn't fit into the old cabinet. I looked for weeks and we finally found a new cabinet I liked. Tada! Craftsmen style in a way.
Cubedog: beautiful, lovely...now the bookcases on the other hand....
Otter: Shaddup......I haven't gotten that far in the weeding process yet. But if you are refering to the golden oak color.....amazingly enough, The Clueless One got a clue and noticed. Of course, that meant another project for me....staining the bookcases. On a lighter note, the cabinet should go with the mantle surround I found at the thrift store....thirties craftsman style.

So what happened to the old tv and cabinet,you ask? So glad you asked. The Clueless One decided he wanted to use the cabinet in his office. No problem. I helped him shuffle desks, then left him alone to figure it out. It wasn't very long before I heard him call me to come see.....quick! He could hardly wait for me to see his masterpiece.......






All I can figure is that it comes in handy when he is lying on the sofa that faces it, he once again has a tv for each eyeball. You can't tell from the pic, but yes, they are tuned to the same channel.
The Clueless One has outfoxed me......again.
Cubedog: Peas & Rice! Is that a 3rd TV on the very tippy top? I could (almost) understand if they were on different channels, but what the HelloDolly?!? Not even Bigdog would try to pull that one and we all know how creative he can be;case in point, I want a patio cover-he goes out and buys and installs on my oak tree one Army surplus parachute......

Otter: Au contraire.....tis the Bose up there, which blasts Symphony quality sound at Clueless One. It's his office so he does what he wants in there. At least I only have a big honking 40 inch plasma tv to make it's presence known. No one had a cabinet big enough to hide that monstrosity.

I asked for a front porch....picturing a quaint wood railing and all that cute country porch idea. Instead I get pipe frame and pipe railing. He likes to point out how he got decorative and used spiraled pipe on the front posts. I just put the big nix on metal siding. The roof is okay...Hawaiian Blue looks good....metal siding not so much. I just can't take anymore metal around here!

New View

The view out my living room window improved drastically this weekend. The neighbor had a bulldozer come out, dig a big hole, push the crap in it, then push the dirt back over it. I am blown away at how normal it looks now.

Of course, it doesn't look all that spiffy with a cluster of satelite dishes and winter plants, but at least it isn't monster strips of plastic, old coolers, and misc crap.
Now the other half wants me to get to checking in about satelite internet. That means yet another dish attached to the pole. We may have already run out of pole space. We'll see.