July

 The first half of the year is over already-it's flying by!

Thank You!

Thank you, everyone for your anniversary wishes and sweet comments! We were able to go celebrate our anniversary at lunch today at a local steakhouse. Tonight we'll enjoy that homemade chicken soup!

47th

 

Today marks 47 years married to this remarkable and wonderful man. We will be spending a romantic evening at home where he has made a delicious dinner of chicken soup for his wife because she has a stomach bug on their anniversary. He's the best!

Father's Day

 We celebrated these three wonderful fathers yesterday!

My husband:

Our son:

Our son-in-law:

So proud of these three men and love them dearly! We all worshipped together and then had a great Father's Day lunch at a local Cajun Seafood restaurant. It was a great day! 

Summer!

 

 

Cleaning up my act...

I am pretty much a "whipped cream on the garbage can" type housekeeper. It looks alright if you don't look too closely. (Also, if it's up where I can't see it, it doesn't exist. Like the top of the refrigerator.) However, there are things that eventually, even I can't stand to look at anymore. Today, it's the outside of the windows and the screens. Oh my. We've lived in this house nearly 9 years and I've generally just given them a lick and a promise every year (or so). So today, I took down screens and scrubbed them with a brush and soapy water and hosed them down. (I know-I can hardly believe it myself!) Then swept and hosed down around the windows much to the chagrin on many spiders who thought they were well hidden. 

I did ask the hubby to take care of a wasp nest in the top corner of one window. I know my limits and have serious doubts about being able to outrun an angry wasp! (I was really surprised that there was only one nest. We are usually covered up with them by now. I think our deep freeze in February got some of them.)

I plan to get the squeegee and window cleaner out this afternoon and actually wash them. (This is just the downstairs windows. The outsides of the second story windows are on their own. We can still see out of them as far as I can tell.) 😉 

Next week, I'll take on the inside of the windows. I hope to be able to actually move around again by then!

June

 

It's been such an unusually cool (high 70's-low 80's) rainy May and June looks to be shaping up to be the same. By now, it's usually in the mid to upper 90's and the spring rain is just a memory. I'll take it, though. I'm sure summer will be here soon enough and we will be wishing for the cool rainy weather again!