We are getting some hot and sunny days. Feels like summer after a cold snap and lots of rain.

Sounds like you got quite a few things accomplished.

Hot this morning, but I think a rain storm is suppose to stop by in the afternoon - I hope as the garden could use some water. I took my cart around the property picking up some privet branches I lopped off the other day, plus two limbs off the peach tree that were so loaded with fruit they cracked. I anticipated that but didn't do anything about it until too late. So I sawed those off the other day too.

Ever lift a limb loaded with peaches from a cart and toss onto the brush pile? ugh. If I had been smart (again) I would have shaken them off right? ha Anyway, that job is done. And I'm done for the day already at 12:41pm. Tired. Looking froward to tea in about an hour.

Also, my nose is stuffy and eyes itchy. The pollen count must be a little high today.

We had almost enough rain last night to make all the drops splatter together and touch each other. I wanted more. Lots more. I started watering again.

Peach branches in the trash! I lost a peach tree last winter and none of my stone fruits or apples or raspberries or anything has fruit. I think the summer of February was the reason. It's a good thing I miscounted big time when I was canning pears last year. I won't get any this year. I did buy a crate of peaches at the grocery story on Monday. Today they are all ready. I was hoping they would ripen over a few days. I didn't want to can them but it looks like I might have to. Maybe I will try something new. Can I cook them in syrup and instead of canning them, freeze them? I think frozen peaches taste "funny". Will they taste canned if I cook them in the syrup?

Happy first Tuesday in August. Only I guess now it is Wed. Oh well close enough.

ImHappy that is great to have your computers cleaned up. since I no longer have a desktop my computer clutter is my nest around my chair. But I do have a small trash can tucked in behind the little side table the lappy sits on when not in use. Yes it needs dumped too. I should clean up my mess. I did make a folder in the beginning for my lappy to keep almost all desk top icons in. But then I am not doing the genealogy so no need to have as many tabs on folders as you do. I did that when I worked the city.

So sorry about the cost of the brakes. UGH And the fruit trees. Exactly why when one person was badgering me to put in fruit trees I told her no way. The weather is not unpredictable here when it comes to fruit. We are almost guaranteed never to get any due to blooming too soon then frost nipping the buds.Eating the way I do now saves me to much time. I only kept a few canning jars not for canning but for the times we need a jar for some thing.

Hi Eld

Schoolhouse I have seen props put under those heavy branches to keep them from snapping. Yes they do get terrible heavy. Even my little back patio plum tree branches got heavy and were drooping and I had to lighten the load and there are only a few plums on them tiny ones. I might have eliminated all of them yesterday. LOL

I am back in fencing mode in the dog yard. Little jacks managed to get out Hoping he did not go over the larger spaced wire fence. Well it is all small now and I just need to finish tying off the last panel and do the two gates. It was 10:15 PM when I cam in last night saying I quit. But it was so much cooler then than the 106 we had for the day. I need to get out there and tie that last panel off then I think I will work on the gates tomorrow. My body hurts. I finished my mosaic window so might grout it after I get the fencing done today. this one took me a very long time. I am still debating IF I should grout it. It is so pretty as it is now and grout dulls them down. Pieces are very tightly put together.

No more progress on the dresser since I had to do the tree then fence. Busy busy. Still in coffee mode this morning. Tea later.

Have a good one .

Let's see the window ungrouted.

Oh hang on need to get myself up= pry myself off this chair. PHEW I am toast.

Love that flower one!! Don't grout it.

Thanks ImHappy kind of my thinking too. The grout usually is a good thing but it does really cut back the pretty sparkle of the glass edges. thing is I can always grout later but once grouted it is grouted. Was fun window to do but took me sooooooo long. Course I have been working on other things so not a lot of free mosaic time on my hands. Now what next????? wondering if it is time to lay Thelma down on the table and finally finish her??? Or I have a small dresser in my studio that needs doing. I think I will do it. It has been waiting for me for 9 years. Maybe this it the time. It would clear up a lot of tess ready and waiting. Yep I am finally going to finish this thing.

Are you still going to do the original plan for thelma or new ida?

Thelma is about half done so yes I am sticking with it. As she stands in the dinning room she does not really look half finished because I am the only one that knows what I would like to do to her to finish her. the only change might be to leave her arm-less. I have grown kind of attached to the look. but then what do I do with two just arms. OH dear. Hahahaha

I took some time to clean up before dragging out more stuff to pile on top creating even worse landslides. Feeling much better about my work space. Now I need to find the right thing to lay the dresser down on it's already done side. Has to be the right height to work on it. Dresser is 21 inches wide side to side. Only 11 inches deep front to back so whatever I come up with does not need to be really large. And then where to set it up?? Part of the reason I did not work on it sooner. Space. Now I have all the space in the world so it will be easier. Just need to get it the right working height. Thinking suitcase laying flat on the floor. Use dinning room table to hold my supplies and push it up against the couch to give me more walk through room. I do not remember how/where I set it to work on at the other house.

Your garage!! Lots of space there!

" I have grown kind of attached to the look. but then what do I do with two just arms. OH dear. Hahahaha"

I'm assuming that's a rhetorical question! Wave at your neighbor with one of them. Do the arms have hands? Separate fingers?

Happy August all! Chris, your window is gorgeous. I wouldn't grout it either.

Only 6 more weeks of unbearable heat and then I can live again. lol Actually, we are having a cool spell right now and it rained today. Not a bad start to August in that regard. On the other hand, I pulled an expensive stupid move yesterday.

I wanted to plant a holly tree and couldn't dig a hole where I wanted it because the ground was so hard. So I walked along with my eyes on the ground sticking the shovel in the ground until I found a soft spot. And it was clear too, a bonus! So planted the tree, no problem. Then yesterday, I saw that something had dug all around it, so I was going to put a big tree cage around it and anchor it with a T-post to keep the animal from knocking it over. The T-post was taller than me, and I had to stand on my toes to try to hammer it in. Hubby watched for a minute and then came over to help. He gave it a few good whacks and then we heard a funny hissing sound. And then water started bubbling out of the ground. We had hit the water line. THEN, I looked where I had planted the tree, and yep, it was smack dab in the middle of the water line. That explained why it was so easy to dig there and why the ground was clear of grass and weeds.

So, I yanked out the tree, and started digging up the line while Hubby drove to the road to turn off the water at the meter. He looked for something to temporarily patch it and we had nothing. It wasn't pvc, but a 2" pex line. So we drove to mil's house, took showers, and came home. Woke up this morning to pouring rain.

The plumbing supply place that was here when we did the line had closed that location and Hubby had to drive 2 hours to the nearest store that had the connector. $95!

When he got home, we both went out in the drizzle and crawled around in the mud getting this connection on.

I had just thought last month that I needed to mark that line with some paint. What an expensive goof!

That sounds like something that would happen to me. One little error leads to major expenditure either in time or money or both. At least it wasn't you who actually did the damage.

It's drizzly here so far. I hope it drizzles all day!

Found out this morning I had left the hose running all night on my new little apple tree. I thought it was odd that the low spot in the new driveway was puddled. Then I saw why. This is the 2nd or 3rd time I've let that little tree get too dry. I hope it survives. The apple tree it replaced doesn't look like it's going to make it. I had hopes but they are fading.

I had both printers humming yesterday. The large format had been out of ink for almost 2 years because I couldn't find or didn't want to pay the going price for it. While I was waiting for Nathan to come and fix everything I looked again and now I can get the generic stuff so I did. The color is different but it's almost all maps that I print on it so it doesn't matter. And who's to say the color from it isn't what the other printer should be printing. I'm having a wonderful time playing with all my toys. I do need a new lap top. The keyboard on the old one doesn't work and I use a mouse with it because I just can't do the pad thing. So every time I take it anywhere it's a full carrying bag just for the computer. And the keyboard doesn't fit all the way in it. But I rarely take it anywhere any more since I'm way past local places to find genealogical information. Getting one family history book finished up to take to town Saturday. Mini cousin get together. I was so surprised to see how much more I know now than I did when I first wrote it. Every family needed updated. And new cousins! Lots of new cousins and they do genealogy! I would never have known them otherwise.

I've done that with the water hose.

I hate the touch pad on keyboards too. I deactivated mine and use an external mouse too. My hubby's keyboard doesn't work well on his laptop and he bought an external keyboard that rolls up so he can take it with him easily.

I do not like the touch pad on my RCA Tablet kep board but I do like the one on my regular lap top. It is a matter of just getting used to them It took me awhile to stick with it. I hate having to use a mouse any more. And I do use my lap top on my lap so no where to do the mouse.

ImHappy it is too hot and dark in the garage. I would never do my glass work out there.

Haybarn bummer on the water line. I had to think and research photos before I dun in the blue bottle tree because it is in an area I KNOW the septic comes from the house. I am pretty sure it is deeper but I was very careful and checked every bit of resistance with the post hole digger just to be sure it was only a rock and not the septic line.

ImHapppy I have to set my stove timer then make SURE I get right up to move or turn off the water. I would forget every time if I did not do this.

Tell me about the roll up key board. I don't know whether to spend any money on it any more. It really needs to be replaced BUT since I rarely take it anywhere...

I have an on going relationship with my stove timer, too. Laundry for sure. Getting out the door on time. I always have to go back 3 times in order to have everything I wanted along with me. Not to mention food. Even the food in the microwave! How bad is that!

This is the one hubby has and when I searched for it, it looks like there are lots of different ones, even from Walmart. Amazon of course has them.

roll up keyboard from Fry's

I read the review at wal mart. Decided it would be something I'd want to touch before I buy.