July is almost over.

Thought maybe I should try and do a post. May have already said all this, but oh well! ;-)

Just as hubby was getting used to walking normally again, his shots are wearing off. He talked to the doctor and they are going to look into getting him another series. They wanted to do it when he called in last Thursday, but he felt really good and didn't think he needed to.
He should be getting his pacemaker around the 4 of September...

Hubby and son found these up in the attic while fixing a window.

Many of the original cypress or cedar shingles are still there under the tin. These square nails were what they used to hold them on.
Hubby has done some research and the last use of these nails was about 1920. While talking with some neighbors down the road, they told us way back when people would burn down abandoned houses and then sift through them to get the nails.
That was before the time of the easy to manufacture wire nails, of course.
It lends a bit of further credence to the estimate of the house being built around 1880.

A few pictures.

The window hubby and son repaired.

Hubby put plywood on that window back in 1994. The large glass had been broken, as had two of the smaller panes. The plywood was still there when we bought the property from BIL. There was a lot of caulk and stuff-it used. And the place that did the glass did not have the old style lead type glass or whatever it is called, but it still looks okay. Hubby wanted to install a sash lock, but the windows are not modern enough for that. The upper window actually presses into a slot that holds the window closed; but hubby put a couple screws in for my piece of mind.

Green beans. Not the quarts and quarts some people can, haha. I am finding that I don't think I like canning, but at least I am learning how to do it.

Found these mushrooms hiding in the cantaloupe patch.

A slice of yummy cantaloupe...

A shirt I saw in the local Hobby Lobby...

Take care and God bless. ♥

Has it really been two years?

Since we retired I mean. It really doesn't feel like it. But I just realized today that it has been.

This is not what you want to see when you look out the kitchen window while making breakfast.



When I first looked out the window, there were just a couple. I thought they were fighting over territory. When I looked out the window again, this is what I saw. I thought it was the smell of the bacon drawing them; but I made the video and showed hubby. He immediately got up to look and said they were swarming.

I immediately asked him if they were killer bees. :-|

But he said no, they were swarming, as in they thought they had found a new nesting place! We went through two cans of wasp spray real quick. It made a bit of a dent. After breakfast we went in town and got three more cans of spray. (We found another can of wasp spray buried under several cans of Stuff It.) The first two cans, I think, helped to break the... pheromone trail? that was telling the bees where the new hive would be.

Anyway, I can definitely recommend Black Flag Wasp spray, however it is named. When hubby took that out to spray the bees, he said it killed them immediately. (Yes, I know bees are necessary, but not when they have decided your house is to be their new hive!)

There is was a circular hole on the outside wall of the kitchen. Now this hole, I am pretty sure, has been there for decades. I'm sure it was there when we were here in 1994. I know it has been there since we started coming down in 2008. Anyway, it has now been sealed off with Stuff It. Spray in foam insulation.

I should mention that the noise you hear is actually the exhaust fan, not really the bees...

Hubby said the few bees remaining did not bother him when he was mowing. It will still be a few days before I am brave enough to use the utility room door to go out and hang laundry.

I think there was going to be more, but I've forgotten what it was, so. Oh! I know. Hubby gets his first back procedure next Thursday. They will shoot cortisone into his spine. It should, hopefully, keep him pain free for about three months and then he will have to have the procedure again.
There. I think that is all. Ha.

Take care all and God bless. ♥

P.S. I am having a terrible time trying to post the video. If you don't see it here, maybe I can get it to google +.

I had a lot of things to talk about

But decided I won't. Ha. Not writer's block more that I just don't feel like writing.
We are doing well.
Youngest boy got his disability. Now perhaps if he wants to spend 30 minutes helping a customer, he will be allowed to do so without getting a black mark for it.
The year is half over. I am tired. I haven't painted in weeks. Bad me.

We celebrated our 40th anniversary with hamburgers and hot dogs. :-)
We have melons growing.

The garden isn't nearly as neat as it was back the beginning of June!

I do try to read your blogs, but when I don't get online before 10 PM, it's not easy.

Hope you are all doing well. Happy July! ♥