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Thursday and Shit

I would have blogged earlier but I had to clean up a spill in the refrigerator that David made and didn't tell me about. Then we lost power for a couple of hours this morning. Then the power company came by and they were changing out electric meters. Maybe they were behind the lost power? Who knows anymore. Anywho, we are still hitting triple digits on the heat but not until almost 3 pm so I'm safe without power for now. 

David is taking my car to work every day now. Not because the air conditioning is better but because his truck is kaput. He said that if he comes to a stop at the light or stop sign the truck dies. I say it's the fuel pump or the fuel filter. Most likely the pump. He will be driving my car for the next few weeks until next Friday. the garage he takes it to is full up. I like this garage too. They don't try to cheat you. They take good care of their customers. Also, it's only a hop skip and a jump down the street from us. 

So David will have my car for the next few weeks, not that I go anywhere, mind you. It will cut down on the need for bail money though. I'm still looking for a partner in crime. Not taking applications anymore. Too much wasted paper. Everyone has to list their priors and such. So I'm just taking online resumes. As always you have to pay for your own ray gun and I am the only one that gets to wear the cape. Also, I can't offer medical insurance anymore because it's getting too expensive. Yeah, you'll just have to bite the bullet and endure the excruciating pain from falling off tall buildings and such. SO, that's it for today. Until I get the car back, I'm stuck here playing mommy to two adorable little Bostons.

All y'all have a magical day.

Wet Cat Wednesday

It's Monday - Thank Gawd

Last week around Tuesday or was it Wednesday, anywho, I messed up my left foot.

The redness  on the outer side is almost
 gone but it's still swollen

My thinking of how was that I might have slammed it against the bed railing which is hardwood. The 2 1/2 inches of it surrounds the waterbed. I thought at first I broke the thing because I was having trouble walking on it. By Thursday it was black and blue with blood-red undertones. Nasty looking. I was having to walk with my old walker to get around. I was in a fuck-load of pain up until Sunday. Friday I put a mugwort wrap on it and most of the black and blue was gone by Sunday. I'm walking okay now but the foot still has a bit of the red left from where I whopped it. Other than that, I had a decent week. 

Variegated ficus now in a pot three times the size of the old one.

Yesterday, David helped me move some plants outside. I had to get the azaleas out of the hot sun and move them to partial shade. I repotted my variegated ficus that I have all summer long out on the front porch. It was in a small pot for almost four years and I finally moved it to a larger pot. The thing had no soil left, all root. I also repotted a parlor palm that I've had for about three years. The poor thing, I know I heard it sigh when it hit new soil. I got rid of all the broken plastic pots and threw them in the recycle bin for pickup tomorrow. I then cleaned out the gardening shed and that is when David came and got me out of the sun and brought me inside. He finished the work by making me sit under the patio umbrella. I was drinking some iced cold water and letting him know what had to go and what stayed. He really hates it when I get a bug to do things outside. But this had to be done before the weather gets cooler and the rains come.

She's working on her egg sack

Last night before the sun was completely down I went out with Lucy to see if anything else had to be done in the courtyard. I looked up while I was standing in the backyard porch doorway and the spider was making an egg sack. it was as if she was blowing up a balloon. It was a translucent white. Nothing was in it but she was really busy with it. I was guessing a wild beehive nearby had been bothered because bees were buzzing around me like crazy. I never got stung though. They were just nosey.

She quickly wrapped one of the bees

A couple of them had gotten caught in her web and she was quick to stifle them so they wouldn't tear up her web and then she went back to her job of getting things ready for the babies. We finally went indoors and the bees were not so happy about me leaving. They kept trying to get through the glass door. David said it's cause I'm so sweet. This morning I went to check on the spider and she had quite a few ready to eat packaged bees in her web all nicely wrapped. There were two on the ground. Empties. I looked for her egg sack but couldn't find it. I guess she hid it well in the upper eaves of the house away from the harsh elements of the coming winter.

Well, I have laundry to get to. I would have done it last week Friday but shit happens. Y'all have a magical day.

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Wet Dog Wednesday

Oy, It's Tuesday

Yesterday, I was going to do some housework but I have been reading The Reckoning by John Grisham. It's not the page-turner that I was hoping for but it was good enough to pique my interest. I hate reading the last chapter to find out ahead of time what happens in the end. Anywho, I could barely put it down. I was on the last three chapters and I wanted to finish it so I put up my "I'm Reading" meme. I wasn't being lazy per se. I just wanted to finish that book and it was well worth it. I finished the book at around 10:30 even though I had a few interruptions with the puppies and then David calling me to ask if I heard about this or that on the news. Yeah, he gets bored when he runs out of work and things are running smoothly.

Meanwhile 

Anywho, I decided to go outside when I finished reading and water the lemon trees and my few remaining flowers. I have got to go get new plants before winter sets in. So, I went online and couldn't find anything I wanted. I went to Etsy and found a few small flowering plants just the right size to take care of through winter and then introduce outside in the spring. Oh, my kingdom for a proper greenhouse. Anywho, I will be getting my plants sometime either the end of this week or next week. We will see. Now I have to go break out the pots to get the right sizes to sustain them through the winter.

After all that, I did do a few housewife thingies. I cleaned the refrigerator out and then took out the trash. I swept the kitchen floor and then mopped it. I made a new batch of iced tea and took out stew meat from the freezer to defrost in the sink. At around 2:30 in the afternoon I made stew and then let it sit on a low simmer Before dinner. David loves my stew.

After dinner, I got online and went to Amazon and preordered the next Grisham book, The Guardians. That one will be out in October. Just in time for my winter reading list. Can't wait. I also preordered a few more books that I had on my wishlist.

Well, that is what I did yesterday. Y'all have a magical day.