The Start of Another Week

Here it is Monday – the start of another week.  Today’s weather is sort of hot, low humidity, sunny with a light breeze.  Not sure how long that will last.  UPDATE:  I just went out to get the mail and now it is really hot and humid.  Not much of a breeze any more either.

This morning when I was making my bed and getting my bedroom in order, I saw Miss Penny go under the bed.  After that I didn’t pay much attention to her.  Just finished what I was doing including closing the cupboard door.  I guess you can figure out where this is going.  I had washed my sheets the other day so I took them out of the dryer this morning and folded them.  I opened the cupboard door to put them on the shelf and guess who was in the cupboard.  Yep, you guessed it.  There was Miss Penny laying on top of some stuff.  She just stayed where she was so I left the door open.  Eventually she came out.

This afternoon I hung longer chains on my ceiling fan/light in my bedroom.  Before that I had to stand on my bed to reach the chains.  I still need to put longer chains on the one in my living room.  I tried to do it today, but I need a ladder.  My two step ladder isn’t enough.  I also changed the battery in my kitchen clock.

I also ordered Kevin’s Christmas present which is two Granny Smith apple trees. I am moving right along with getting my Christmas shopping done.

After supper I did some more weeding in the east rock garden.  I weeded the three flower pots and pulled a few weeds where I had already done so.  I did get the south corner cleaned out.  All I have left is across the front.  That is going to take a while.  I have a few places to spray with roundup because I couldn’t get the weeds completely out.  I will do that in the morning when the sun is shining.

Not a bad day today.  The humidity has finally gone down.  Temperature is still up, but lower humidity helps. So far this morning, other than regular chores, I filled the hummingbird feeders and sprayed some roundup.  Need to buy some more since I finished up what I had.  Also filled the windshield washer fluid in the car.

Found some more roundup in the shed and finished spraying what I wanted to spray.  I also filled the rest of the bird feeders.  I even did some research for Brian’s Christmas present, but didn’t have any luck finding exactly what I wanted.  Will keep looking.

After supper I did some more weeding.  I finished in front of one of the lantana bushes and between two of them. While weeding there was a really pretty yellow and black butterfly eating  at the bushes. No matter how close I got to him, he didn’t fly away.  He did move from flower to flower. Tomorrow I will try to get a picture.  If all goes well I might be able to finish the weeding tomorrow night.  I have also been keeping up with the areas I already weeded, so, yes, I am making a lot of progress.  Kevin has been cutting the back grass.  Hopefully, he will be able to finish because it is getting dark. 

It is such a nice night tonight that I actually sat on the deck on my swing.  It has been so hot and miserable I haven’t been out there very often this summer.  I did a little reading and watched my hummingbirds.  I have six of them that come to the feeders.  I used to have a bully who wouldn’t let any other birds eat.  I don’t know what happened to him because now between the two feeders and six eat at once.  In fact, four of them eat at one feeder.  They are such fun to watch.

Wednesday is looking like another nice day with low humidity.  So this morning after breakfast I headed to Kroger’s and did my shopping.  When I arrived home I put my groceries away, had lunch, gave Miss Penny her treat, made a couple of phone calls, and then went out and mowed some grass.  I have finished two sections.  I think I mentioned in an earlier post that I divide my yard into sections when I mow.  I plan to do one more section today, then Kevin will have to put gas in my mower.  Okay I did the one more section.  I am done mowing for today.  I, hopefully, will finish tomorrow.  If all goes well, I will pull some weeds tonight.  I am closing in on getting that finished!

While mowing I checked my crape myrtles.  They are looking good.  Need some weeding but that’s okay.  All the trees are looking good.  I do have to trim a few of the “suckers” off the Bradford Pears and the Tulip Poplars.  The two Bradford Pears each have a bird nest in them,  Probably those stupid mockingbirds.  I trimmed back the weeping cherry tree pretty seriously.  It looked like it was dying.  Anyway, after I trimmed it I fed it.  I checked that one today and I saw some new growth.  Maybe I did the right thing.

Two of my azaleas look healthy, but the third one looks pretty sad.  I am planning to transplant it. My hydrangeas are weird.  The one still in the ground lost a lot of leaves, have some stems sticking up from the ground but have new growth on top.  In fact, the one Kevin dug up and just sat on the ground is the same way.  Maybe they are in competition.  However, the lantanas have taken over!  Most of the iris are down to just the bulbs,.  Most of the green leaves have died.  We will see how they do in the spring.

I pulled some more weeds tonight.  I finished the area in front of the other lantana.  If all goes well I will finish the final corner tomorrow night.  I also plan to finish cutting the grass.