Wow. Guess I should do a post.

As it's almost Friday again! The second Friday in October. Woo! Cooler weather. Got to like that. Makes it easier to get out and do stuff.
So we're getting ready for our second working vacation this year. We'll be leaving in just about 3 weeks. One of my brothers might join us for a week. That will be wonderful. He's got a lot of experience with construction so I'm hoping to get the kitchen painted and the floor laid while he's there. I'm also hoping this set of steps can be replaced.

Yes, that's a couple of boards on the steps. You have to really be careful. Hubby remembers a porch being there when he grew up. A small porch with steps. Maybe with brother's help, we can get that done, too, while he is there.Would be nice. I mostly use the front steps when I go into the house. Or I walk very slowly if I use these steps.

We're thinking of replacing the pump house, too. Hubby was going to build one, but then he got to thinking maybe we'd buy a small shed or something and just set it up over the pump and tank. One thing I know, we want to be sure to wrap the pipes before we leave this time. And I think we might shut the pump off, too, since there's no one to shut the water off if we have freezing weather again. We'll just have to hope it holds its prime, now that it's a new pump and doesn't have any leaks. Well, no leaks that we've noticed, anyway.

That's about all I can think of. Have a great end of the week, all! :)

TGIF!

I have a cold.  But the rain has stopped and the weekend is supposed to be mild and cloudy.

Chris, miss you all and love you! Hope you are all doing well. Hug the family for us. :)

And I hope everyone in blog-land had a safe, wonderful weekend!

Wet, wet, wet

Thought I should get a post in before the electricity goes out. I'm impressed that it's still on (and thanking God for small blessings, too).
Other than rain we're doing well. Think I caught the youngest boy's cold. Getting over the spider bite.
Another day closer to going to Louisiana to work on the retirement property.

Not much more to add to that.
Stay dry, all, if you're on the East Coast like Me!

Ouch!

So, we've had rain most of the day today. Yay! The temp has been cooler today because of it. Yay again. ;-)

The reason for the title of this post though is because when I took the trash out for pickup this morning, something bit me.

Sorry for the quality of the pictures. I'm  right handed and had to take the pics with my left hand. Used my phone.
Hubby looked at the arm when he got home and did the icky (yes, I'm a wimp) squeezing of the arm. He said whatever it was it looked like it bit me probably 3 times. I expect it was a spider of some sort. Son said he's seen them around the trash can. I keep a fly killer bar in the can, but I expect that doesn't stop spiders from hoping.
I had Benadryl on it earlier today, now I have Neosporin on it.

Hope you're all having a good Monday! :)

Sunny Sunday

Quite a surprise after the downpour we had a couple hours ago. Though maybe the rain was the surprise. It poured for about a half hour. We had thunder too, but now the sun is out like nothing happened.
We went fishing yesterday morning and today. No keepers. I still think the water is high, but it's not particularly high anywhere else we've fished, so hubby thinks it's just that the alligator tree that has moved. But I think the base has probably taken out a beaver dam upstream. They do that periodically. I don't use just the tree as an indicator.
Oh well.
We're getting anxious for our next trip to the property in Louisiana. Just a little over a month to go! :-)