We paid a company to repair a concrete sidewalk next to our garage. They also added dirt next to the house to reduce the amount of water collecting near our walls. Kevin seeded the new dirt with grass. And I have spent many happy minutes watering the grass. It is actually quite a pleasant job, though making time to go out and spray the grass twice a day has been a bit of a challenge.
Ok, so what? It's our refrigerator, covered with stuff? But look inside...
It's clean! Pristine! Amazing!
I clean out my refrigerator from top to bottom about every 5 years whether it needs it or not. It needed it this day, though, as a pop can exploded in the freezer. As long as everything was shut off, I decided to tackle the refrigerator as well. What a job! However, it is done and looks great.
And we found this wonderful watermelon hiding in our garden! Well, true confessions...Kevin's mother found it. She was poking around looking for cucumbers and found the watermelons carefully hidden in the sweet potato plant leaves. It tasted wonderful. We have a couple more growing out there and should harvest at least one of them soon. What fun!
My parents visited over the Labor Day weekend. Saturday was incredibly hot -- upper 90's. My dad doesn't particularly enjoy swimming, but even he jumped happily into our pool. He and Sarah had a little bonding time watching everyone else when he was done.
And Sarah got plenty of time with Nana, who loves babies.
On Labor Day itself, we welcomed my great-uncle for lunch. He is in his early 90's, a World War II veteran, and has amazing stories to tell about the war. Actually, while his war stories are interesting, I can relate better to his farm stories. He grew up on a farm in Michigan and experienced the introduction of electricity in houses, cars, etc. He has seen so many changes.
Our garden has had a good year considering that we had rains in June that slowed down platning and Kevin has been too busy to spend lots of time on the garden. In the middle of our produce plants are some flowers that Lydia planted years ago, and which come up loyally every summer. They are beautiful.
Satuday, as I said, was in the high 90's. Sunday was in the high 70's, Monday was in the low 60's! It has been very cool all week. Lydia took advantage of cool temperatures and a decent wind to fly a kite for a couple of hours on Tuesday. The kite did very well. At the end, she got tired and I went outside to help her reel it back to earth.
The kittens are outside now. We acquired black kitten at the pet store earlier this summer. She was a relatively happy inside cat for a couple of months, but when she got big enough she acquired a very bad habit. Namely, she would jump up on tables and counters and eat food that she wasn't supposed to. That was a serious issue. But the next problem was that the food wasn't good for her and she would go somewhere and throw up. That was worse. So we decided she'd be better off outside.
Tiger kitten was a stray that showed up on our doorstep (with his mother and brother) in June. We found homes for Mama and the other kitten, but decided to keep Moonbeam. He was inside and we enjoyed him, but he decided the outside was more interesting and started dashing out every time the door was opened. We don't want cats going in and out as we've had problems with bugs biting people, especially ME. So, now Moonbeam is outside too. The kittens were inside together for many weeks and are best buddies, so are very happy to be together again. Both are fixed so we don't need to worry about new kittens popping up, or at least not homegrown new kittens. Since we are out in the country, we do get plenty of strays who enjoy our cat food buffet.
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