Busy time of the year, isn't it? Nothing exciting going on here. A family member is getting a new puppy and I will get to play with him and maybe puppy sit. My two dogs are getting up there at 10 and 12 so I new puppy to pet and love sounds like a nice counterpoint to watching my babies slow down as they have.
My husband's so busy at work that he's averaging 11 hour days -- add in travel and during the week we have only the dinner table to talk. After that it's too late to do much more than clean up and go to bed as he gets up around 3 AM most days.
Weekends are filled with family stuff and friends. So, he doesn't have much time to do the home maintenance he did before. Which brings me to the follow up on the ants.
The ants, after being treated have gone away. Well more specifically they aren't in the house. But, we have found where they are in large numbers: ON the house. Yes, the gutters were overgrown with crapola from not being cleaned out and apparently provided a pest penthouse for the little buggers. Husband found a big hill of ants living in our gutters. Are they the tiny feet I heard scrambling across the roof? No, those are squirrels or maybe anteaters who've traveled from afar to witness the penthouse ant hill. I'm getting itchy just thinking about ants over my head -- glad they were removed and with luck I'll be antfree for a while; next year we'll check the gutters for sure.
I'm back to my migrant worker job of blueberry picking which is unfun. I hate the scratchy branches, the bird poop on the leaves as they always "pick" before I do and then eat and poop blue. Our bushes are more like trees now so I can't even reach the most succulent berries plus we have a homicidal Catbird that likes to swoop down at me as if he's going to remove my eyes with his open, flapping beak.
I hate bugs and berry picking but it must be done.
In fact, I'd better get going and start picking now as the bushes are filled with feathers that I can see from my upstairs window here in the office.
Bubba Burgers...try them they are so good. Get the ones with onions. xoxo
My husband's so busy at work that he's averaging 11 hour days -- add in travel and during the week we have only the dinner table to talk. After that it's too late to do much more than clean up and go to bed as he gets up around 3 AM most days.
Weekends are filled with family stuff and friends. So, he doesn't have much time to do the home maintenance he did before. Which brings me to the follow up on the ants.
The ants, after being treated have gone away. Well more specifically they aren't in the house. But, we have found where they are in large numbers: ON the house. Yes, the gutters were overgrown with crapola from not being cleaned out and apparently provided a pest penthouse for the little buggers. Husband found a big hill of ants living in our gutters. Are they the tiny feet I heard scrambling across the roof? No, those are squirrels or maybe anteaters who've traveled from afar to witness the penthouse ant hill. I'm getting itchy just thinking about ants over my head -- glad they were removed and with luck I'll be antfree for a while; next year we'll check the gutters for sure.
I'm back to my migrant worker job of blueberry picking which is unfun. I hate the scratchy branches, the bird poop on the leaves as they always "pick" before I do and then eat and poop blue. Our bushes are more like trees now so I can't even reach the most succulent berries plus we have a homicidal Catbird that likes to swoop down at me as if he's going to remove my eyes with his open, flapping beak.
I hate bugs and berry picking but it must be done.
In fact, I'd better get going and start picking now as the bushes are filled with feathers that I can see from my upstairs window here in the office.
Bubba Burgers...try them they are so good. Get the ones with onions. xoxo
posted by mary bishop | 10:00 AM
2 Comments:
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
blueberries
that's one fruit i can eat a good portion of without spiking my sugar. :)
Glad you finally got rid of your ants. (i've been remiss in my blog reading of late...)
Things here are fine getting a lot closer though - 6-7 weeks to go. :)
Hi Cutie...I'm remiss in anything blog lately but life's changes are what makes life interesting!
It is such an exciting time for you - try to keep your feet up as often as possible!!! xoxoxo
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