Skeletons, Mailbox, House, Broom, Ants and A Small Gray Ball of Fur

All my life I had that one day

California would drop off in the 

ocean. Yep, I am thinking Mother 

Nature has changed that tune and is

working on Fla. instead.

Prayers to all my friends

in Fla. once again for 

the storm moving in.

This is Milton.

Helene did a mess on Tampa

and this storm seems to be

heading straight for them

again and in less than 

two weeks after Helene.

On another note, they don't

think this one take the 

same path as Helene up 

into GA. TN or NC.,

let's hope not. 

 

Still not got the sister witches

made and outside yet.

I sort of ventured off 

on several different task on 

Tuesday.

Tuesday was an amazing day,

cool, nice breeze, sunny

and beautiful!

On top of that, I felt better

than I have since Mothers Day.

On that day, the boys came over

and that is when we put the 

hose pipe post up and the mailbox

post. I taught the boys

to concrete them in the holes,

and they both used my saw.

That feels like 

FOREVER 

a go.

Anyway, I got a lot to done, 

but not near as much as I 

could have years ago, but 

I am giving myself a break

on that.

Took this pic from the bench

on the front porch. 

Tuesday morning. I was up and 

out at 10:30 cutting my grass.

After that, I started weed whacking

and I ran out of string.

With that said, in the process

of going to gather the string

I somehow got involved in 

decorating the mailbox.

Yep, totally forgot about 

loading the string!

My pull off the road for the 

mail lady to get to my mail

project did not work the way 

I thought it should. I did not 

take into consideration that there

was a slope and the gravel would

slide down after a bit.

And it had. So, I also jumped

in to fix that and do something

a tad different in that area.

More on that later.

Here is the house from the 

road with the decor up.

I might have mentioned that when 

I went to storage the other 

day, I brought back my broom. I 

made this last year and I 

needed to place it in 

the house for Halloween.

On Sunday I noticed a 

BIG

ant hill next to the porch.

That is where those little

shits were coming from!

It was directly across the porch

from the living room corner

that took me forever to get 

them out, even after I had the 

house treated. Now I see why.

This was built at some point

in the last couple of weeks.

I took care of it.

I had bought some Terro

crystal type stuff that you sprinkle 

on the hill or around a house.

I took a stick and scraped the 

top of the hill and watched

hundreds of hundreds of 

ants go running, I then sprinkled

the stuff on that.

I then went to the other one

that I had found next to the driveway,

it was treated the same way.

Tuesday morning before mowing,

I checked them. The one

next to the porch, no ants.

The other one was still full.

So, I ran over it with the mower

and then treated it again.

I have NEVER seen hills

so big and never seen so many

ants in my life. 

Tomorrow, I might be able to 

stay on task and get the

rest of the weed whacking done!

Oct. is the birth month of

my little gray ball of fur!

She is four this month.

 From a tiny, dull gray 

runt to a striking beauty.

Merriest Birthday month 

to you sweetie pie.

Speaking on Misty, she has been

leaving some undigested puke around

here and there. Now, funny thing is,

ants never went near the cat food,

but let her upchuck some, they are

on it so fast its unreal!

Moving on....I read to spread the 

food out on a plate, not a bowl and 

don't put much out.

It seems to be working great!

Also, I was in my room on 

Sunday, but Misty was on the 

deck. She came in and apparently 

I think she thought I left her. She 

came in off the deck, trilling the

word Mama, but it sounded pitiful, like

she was crying it.

Broke my heart!