These past few days have been ROUGH. On Tuesday I did something to the right side of my body. Everything was seized up. It was so bad by Wednesday that after Donny got home, at 5 on Wednesdays, I got on our Chi swing machine to see if I could loosen anything up and was in bed by 5:45. I woke up at midnight and went to just lay down on the couch with our tens machine on. I also think that I’m having phantom gallbladder symptoms again because I haven’t been taking my ox bile daily like I know I should.

I swear by this stuff. I’m feeling a bit better today, but the hip and shoulder blade and where my gallbladder used to be is still giving me fits.

When we woke up Thursday morning we found out that we had ants. They were all over the kitchen sink and the countertop next to the sink. We haven’t had a problem with ants since we have lived here. We cleared everything off of the counters and got to work.

After a quick Google search I found this product is safe to use around pets and is non toxic. I honestly think it’s just lemongrass and geranium essential oils. It killed them all off though so that’s a win. Because I don’t want them to come back and so far they haven’t, I mixed in some essential oil with my castile cleaning spray.

I need to move it into one of my amber glass bottles since I added the oils.

The worst thing that happened was to one of my pumpkin patches in the backyard. This is what it looked like on Wednesday.

While we were handling the ant problem, Donny looked out the window and said, “there are chickens in you patch”. I ran outside and one of the brown chickens was having a field day scratching up all of the shoots. I tried to save as many as I could but they were so damaged. I was devastated.

I put screens over the top to see if it will deter her. We’ll see.

On a different note, I found the best watermelon I’ve had all season at Aldi.

I prefer seeded ones but they are hard to find and when you do find them they are so expensive. This one will do just fine.

House chicken has a friend. She likes watching this cat wave its arm. She also likes watching TV and at night I put on the Roku Zen Life channel because she also likes music.

And one last random bit. We only have one this year, but it’s a cutie. Very shy and never raises it’s tail. Its tail is different and looks more like a cat’s tail.