I haven't done much today except for sitting out in the yard watching the birds. We have a hummer with a broken bottom bill. He is able to feed at the regular feeders but it's a chore for him so I did rig him up an open feeder to make it easier. It made me happy to see him use that feeder with ease. I ran to pick up my GD and take her to the store with me. Even at 7 she's only now getting to where she'll go with me without her dad.

Not much here. I pulled some weeds this morning but it got hot early. That was just the excuse I needed to be lazy! Watched some old movies and listened to podcasts while doing some light housework. I also cleaned the hummingbird feeders and just put them back out.

Moonie, that was so kind of you to help the little hummer.

Usual day here. I am still working on cleaning out a building that flooded and everything washed into a huge pile and is covered in silt. I only do about an hour a day because it is so hot in there. I can't take a fan because I don't want that stuff blown all around on me. I decided I needed to hurry up and finish it and get it finished by tomorrow evening...at least the sweeping up and picking up. I need help to move the heavy items. Not going to make it. I did put in an hour today and will try to do, more than that tomorrow, but it is slow going. The building is 24 x 36, so fairly good sized.

Slept in. Surfed the net. Fed dog. Going out to dinner with a friend in a bit.

Went to church this morning.. can home a took a short nap. Our small town fair was all week last week and I worked every evening. Also baked 2 pies each day for the kitchen. Got a few things picked up and i’m Heading to bed soon.

I worked today, 12 1/2 hour shift. Pretty busy day. I went walking (on lunch break) early in the shift because I knew we were supposed to get rain and it was already about 80 outside. It was nice and hot with a slightly cool breeze. About an hour before I left work tonight, it started pouring rain, lightening and thundering. Glad it slowed by the time I actually left work and didn't have to drive in a mess.

Today was our city's annual Walk For Woman that our company hosts. I decided rather than do the 5K walk, I would go to work. Glad I did. It poured rain all morning. lol I got so much done at work, I surprised myself. BUT, I think I pulled or tore a muscle (rotator cuff). I felt the muscle do something and now I'm in pain....... I hand bombed 30 24-packs of water from a skid to a cart, (10 at a time), then brought them to the sales floor to put on the skid that was 1/2 full to fill it up. I'm a hurting girl. I soaked in a hot Epsom salt bath for 45 minutes and just took a 500mg Vomovo (Naproxen/Esomep combo). I may add some tiger balm to the mix and hopefully get a decent sleep. I'm sore from my spine to my upper arm and everywhere in between........ :( I'm not a spring chicken anymore I learned. LOL

Most of my day was spent in the studio. I'm on a mission to complete all of my almost finished projects. I'm good at starting new projects before the old ones are done.

All drudgery. So much rain already here in FL and the mold, algae on the lanai are being pressure-washed and the frog and lizard crap on the front porch are being scrubbed off. DH is doing the lanai and I'm doing the front porch.

So far nothing this morning. I expect it to rain all day. I have the urge to change the window treatments in my bedroom, so I will see what I have. I need a few things from Michael's so I will head there and also return something to Sears. I am thinking of making a strawberry crisp. I will also check in with my daughter who was not feeling well yesterday.

Yesterday my plans idd not turn out the way I expected. Instead of going to a graduation party, I kept my daughter company in the emergency room. She thought she may have had food poisoning but it turned out to be a bad stomach flu. We were there 5 hours which I think is par for the course. She was very grumpy and tired when she was discharged, a good sign. I am glad to live nearby.

I hope you're having a wonderful time, Moni, even in the rain. Nice breakfast viewing.

I had a tummy bug over the weekend and so accomplished almost nothing. Guess I'd better get up off this chair and get a load of laundry going since I now feel better.

I spent the morning mowing the area below the dam of our pond. Unbeknownst to me a plastic "rock" solar light got washed to the bottom of the dam and I hit it with the mower, utterly destroying it.

Then around lunch I went to a "Junior handler" hound show, which had the children handling and showing both hunting beagles, and fox hounds.

After that I spent the afternoon trimming overhanging bushes and trees on our long driveway. I heard thunder and decided to stop for the day and gather everything up and put it away.

Then the storm arrived. The worst of it only lasted about 45 minutes, but it was raining sideways, dropping 1 inch hail, blowing incredibly hard, and frequent, close lightning flashes. The horses were really not happy. Water was cascading down steps behind the house, flooding the driveway in several places, and blowing under doors and windows on the side facing the wind.

When it slackened my wife and I went out to survey what happened, and found a plastic chair that was on the beach by the pond that had blown across the driveway and 30 feet up the hill on the other side. We also found the tiny creek that crosses the driveway a raging torrent. and one smaller culvert blocked causing sticky red mud to back-up, and cover the uphill side. The worst though was an 18" diameter sycamore tree that was down completely blocking our driveway.

So the rest of the evening was spent outside in the rain, trying to clear that large tree from our driveway. Fun.

The white baseboards, curtains/rods, flooring....sold the house the next day. Shopping for a new house now.

Nicole Nice!!

How many homes fo you flip a year?

Day off today. My brother is busy cleaning out my dad's house and working on his obituary for the local paper. He first wrote that we all had proceeded him in death!!! I'm glad he asked for my input before he sent it to the paper. He also found a bunch of old documents my dad had, like my grandfather's Navy discharge certificate from 1923. It has a bunch of interesting information on the back of it, that my newer discharge certificate doesn't have, like the color of his eyes, weight, job, etc.... He is sending them to me to pass on to my kids, since neither brother is interested in family history.

mama.... "this" one was the one I live in. :0) I need to buy the next one pretty quick! lol I keep teasing that I'm homeless.....