In This Crazy Life...

Thursday I met a friend of mine that was putting Lilly's name on her diaper covers. They turned out so cute!! After that I rushed to Hot Springs to visit. It was my Papaw's birthday and we were taking him to dinner. I'm so fortunate to still have him in  my life and hopefully he will be able to meet our child one day. Friday I didn't have summer school and planned to get up and get moving early. Well.... That didn't happen. I slept until 11:00!!! I don't ever sleep late much less until lunch. It was a stormy day so my pool plans were canceled. I did manage to visit with a friend and her daughter for a little while. I clean house some and did laundry. Saturday morning I was up early to run to the grocery store. I needed a few things for banana pudding, my usual Forth of July dessert. Hatfield wanted to ride and since it was early, not hot, and I only had a few things to get I let him. Lilly is content laying around doing nothing all day! They are so oppo...

I've been working on creating the outline for my flower beds. All of the rocks have come from our yard and I have plenty more. Last week Kev's dad brought us several truck loads of dirt to go in them and the garden bed he built us. Right now I am only making two beds. This one is on the side of the house with the garage. This bed is in the front of the house beside the porch. It doesn't get much sun. Since I know very little about plants and gardening, a friend is coming over next weekend to help me pick out plants and flowers. I will post updated pictures once everything is in the ground. Our raised garden bed. It does get full sun. This picture was taken in the very late afternoon. I will have to purchase some manure soil to mix in with the sandy soil already in there I finally bought a container for our sand, rocks, and shells we brought back from Ireland. I think it turned out great. Now I can display them on a shelf somewhere.

  I woke up around 2:00am and Kev wasn't in bed. I heard water running, so I figured he was up getting a drink. Well... It kept running. I got up and Lily had jumped out of the dog shower and turned on the shower. Water was everywhere. I used every towel in the laundry room to mop it up. I didn't have my glasses on so of course I couldn't really see. I threw all the wet towels in the washer. What a mess. I kind of worried about this happening and bought a cap, but since it didn't seem to be a problem we never used it.   Everyone sleeping in. Our bed looks like this every Sunday morning. Perla brought another mouse to the door last night. Sunday afternoon we went tout to Kev's dads to help him cut up a tree that fell.    The dogs went too. They are always so excited to ride. They ran around and got extra muddy and wet.

I've enjoyed Kev not working on Saturdays. We are getting lots done around the house. Of course we could work on the yard everyday and still have tons to do. We are diligently trying to get all of the trees at the bottom of the hill cut up and the limbs burned. Saturday we made two huge piles that are ready to burn. we burned one Saturday night and the other is still waiting. There are several piles of logs that need to be loaded up and taken to the log pile. The wheelbarrow is not an option. There is no way I am pushing it up the hill loaded with logs and I'm not asking Kev to do it either. We really need to purchase a four wheeler and small trailer to move wood and rocks around. As for now we will throw them as close to the road as possible and load them into the back of the truck. I have a couple of decorating decisions to make. The top of the hutch fell off during the move. So we have just been using the bottom part as a buffet. When my aunt was up last weekend she...

We spent Memorial Weekend working in the yard. Saturday night we made a trip to Tractor Supply tostock up on weed/poison ivy killer, spider spray, and seven dust. after laying around for a few hours Sunday morning, we got started. Kev sprayed for spiders first. I've seen way too many for my liking in and around the house. I mean we do basically live in the woods. While he did that I sanded and spray painted two lounge chairs I bought from a friend. This is the before slightly rusted and a red table. This is the after. I found these cushions at Garden Ridge. Talk about overwhelming, they had twelve rows of cushions and a back wall full. I'm not kidding you. I've been looking online at a few places and there really isn't much variety and any one store. These are the pillows that I made for the chairs. I need to make a few more. We also cleared out several small trees in the back yard. We have four huge burn piles. We can actually see parts of the lake ...

Sunday we cleaned up the back side of our land. This included burning lots of trash, scrap wood, limbs, and leaves.  There's been trash pile pile outside the back door that hasn't been burned because it is too close to the metal for the screened porch roof and wood for the dog houses. Personally I got tired of seeing it and decided to move ALL of it. I stacked the wood for the dog houses on a pallet and covered it up. Then I moved all the trash and scrap wood to the burn pile on the edge of the land. Once that was done, I started with limbs that had been cut off the trees. We piled them in the back of Kev's truck and drove them to the pile. What can I say, I got tired of walking back and forth dragging branches and they were too big for the wheelbarrow. We both like fire, so once we were started we just kept going. Burning limbs led to burning leaves. We don't rake!! That would take forever! Instead we light the leaves on fire and let them burn slowly across the grou...