Truth be told, I haven’t been on here in 2 weeks for 2 reasons. One is that during the day I’m watching the Lindsay Clancy trial. I actually can’t sit still and just watch it so I put on my headphones and actually get a lot done. I think it must be the stress. I’m not going to write a long list of how and why I would vote as a juror, but you know I do not like the color pink but yet here I was last Thursday.

I didn’t want to spend a lot of money on a pink shirt so I found this huge one where Hannah works. I used the little rubber band trick to try and make it look a little less like a tent. Donny said it looked like I have a giant belly button. He ain’t really wrong. LOL

Reason number 2 is that Donny and I have been watch the series Silo on Apple TV in the evenings. It’s so good and we’re sad that we have caught up and now have to wait until Fridays to watch an episode. We have 2 left before we have to wait until next year for the last season. What a bummer.

Number 3 is that I let Penelope use my laptop to watch a listen to chickens on YouTube. I put up a pen in the living room so that she has a space that’s hers and not just a box and random puppy pads. I don’t know what we are going to do with her. She still cannot walk and just kind of scoots around. It’s not a great life for a chicken but she does seem to enjoy YouTube.

Our garden is on it’s last legs except for the pumpkin and watermelon vines. I’ve been dead heading all of the sunflowers, zinnias and marigolds to harvest their seeds for next year.

So far I have these 3 bowls full and today I have a cereal bowl full of the seeds.

I am going to have a lot of flowers next year. The white zinnias that came up later are still going strong.

I had a gorgeous basil plant growing in the big garden. Something happened and it fell over and for the life of my I couldn’t get it to stand up again. I dug up as much of the roots as I could and replanted it into a pot. It went into shock for several days, but now it’s looking good.

Hannah and I went to her work on her day off. If you don’t know she works at this really good thrift store that is only 3 minutes from our house. She also got a job at one of the big haunted houses here and it super excited about doing that. She really loves her job and even when we were there on her day off regular customers just stopped her to chit chat. I did find 3 items that I purchased.

Anything with a sun and I’m in. Moons too. This one is slate and hangs by a leather strap.

I thought this amber jar was so cute and I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it.

I also can’t pass up a handmade mug. This one is from Hill Country Pottery.

Can we just talk about the heat for a moment? Our electric bill is 489. We live in a 1008 square foot house. What in the world is going on. Well, it could be that we have the original 1961 windows and I like a lot of sunlight so I raise the blinds and open the curtains. We also had the air set to 73. Not a good combination. Being that I am extremely frugal we now have our thermostat set at 78. I have pulled down all of the blinds and closed the curtains. So basically I live in a cave because I will only turn on a lamp when it’s necessary. Honestly I thought I would be sweating like a pig but other than the windows the house has good insulation and it’s not bad. When I’m in the kitchen cooking I do use this handy dandy device.

It’s getting used to not having all of the natural light. Yesterday I did all of the laundry and folded it in my dark, only lit by a lamp, room. It was actually pretty cozy.

I also have one of the mini swamp coolers in our room.

Since it’s hot as hades (108 this weekend and that’s not the feels like) I’ve been doing crafts. I painted the faded out frog I got from the estate sale.

And I used 66 toilet paper rolls (some were actually paper towel rolls) to make some flowers. I still have to paint them. Maybe I’ll do that tomorrow during the trial.

And can I get a big HALLELUJAH? Olivia, Jackson’s girlfriend, took the bear!!!!!!!

They started back to college today so I want to wish them a very productive semester. Not the bear.