Snake / Yard Work / Water Catchment

Began my day early as I wanted to tackle a portion of the backyard where the cats have been getting into a lot of stickers and where I usually park my car in order to unload groceries since it is closer to the kitchen and the nosy neighbors can't see what the heck I am bringing in.

We have not had much sun until today so the first thing I did was take my solar lights outside to be charged.  For those new to my blog...I am deathly afraid of snakes...I HATE THEM!!!  I can not even Google anything about them because a snake image will always pop up no matter the webpage and it traumatizes me.

I know it was the cats that killed it since this "baby snake" was dead, had a couple of ants eating it but for good measure, I pounded it with my shovel, moved it to where I was filling in the ruts covered it with dissolved horse pine pellets and as an extra measure of precaution pounded the dirt some more.

Early Saturday morning I was headed to HEB. I was opening the gate when a white truck came to a screeching halt and then went in reverse...it was Pollito...wanting to know when I was going to call him to do the yard.  Told him after the rains of this week pass and once the ground dries as I do NOT want any more RUTS.

After getting rid of the "dead snake" I went to put on my rubber boots, grabbed my trusted garden shears and began snipping away at the weeds after spraying myself silly with mosquito repellent. The mosquitos are everywhere including inside the house and Daddy Long Legs and his cobwebs are doing little to trap them.

I cleared an area big enough for my car and a little more but the pictures did not turn out very well. I filled in the ruts with almost sand like horse pine pellets that have been exposed to a lot of rain these past months.

Paquito was my supervisor this afternoon

Here is part of the debris I cleared and of course Paquito, Nico, and Sonny had to play in it and then mark it...Darn cats!!!

It appears "the boys" were worn out from watching me work so they took a nap...

Paquito napping by the 32-gallon water catchment
containers and the 5-gallon bucket.

Nico and Sonny sharing a hug as they napped completely
 exhausted after having to watch me do yard work.

I moved some more of my rain catchment around to three and five-gallon buckets as we are expecting rain all this coming week and I need more room in the 32-gallon containers I have dedicated for that purpose.

It has been hot and humid it reached 90 today with a heat index of 95 degrees.  I hope I can get some well-deserved sleep tonight.

Good night.  May you all have Terlingua Dreams.

What a difference a day makes

Yesterday it was warm and sunny and today a cold front came in accompanied by heavy rain and thunder...yep, Texas weather!

I am officially out of peak Internet GB's so I got up early this morning to do all I needed to do, online speaking using my Off-Peak GB's.  I have not noticed a slowdown but I have not logged out either.

I am a little worried about the dogs.  Tammie and Oscar were not here at 6:00 a.m. and Pedrito was sleeping in Tammie's bed.  I noticed that he did not have his collar with his red registration. That collar is hard to take off, it belonged to the only dog I have ever had in my life...he died twenty years ago.

It is not rare that the dogs would not be here but what is rare is that Pedrito was not hungry and he looked strange like he was afraid.  I do not think it had anything to do with the rain and thunder, he is used to that.  I examined him closely and it does not appear like he was in a fight.

I need to load the car as we have an out-of-town trip coming up but it will have to wait until the rain is over.  On the plus side, I was able to fill up my two 32 gallon trash cans (used only for this purpose) along with miscellaneous five-gallon buckets on my homemade rain catchment system. Could have probably harvested more but I am out of containers.

Good night.  May you all have Terlingua Dreams.


Spurs Corner

I was so upset yesterday I could not even discuss the game we played against the New York Knicks. Somehow I had a feeling this was going to happen like it did back...was it two years ago when Derrick Fisher was still their coach?

I am not upset because we lost a game, it happens and it will happen again...but to the New York Knicks?  They are one of the worst teams in the NBA.....grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!

I was never a fan of the LaMurcos Aldridge trade, but what do I know?  I trust Pop but even he must be wondering why this very well remunerated player has not lived up to the expectations.  Kawhi can not carry this team alone on his back, he needs other players to step up and deliver!

Hope we play better this evening against the Pacers.  End of rant :-(