It's Sunday so I guess I'd better blog. Otherwise, Froggy might get mad at me and since I have already tormented her today by sending her pictures of a drink cup from the place we got lunch at (Braums!)...
Bill mowed the yard this morning. It was overgrown again, but not as bad as it was when we had it mowed by Slow & Clueless a week and a half ago. We got just enough rain a few days ago to start the grass growing. It was still very damp when he mowed, but it was so humid that it wouldn't really dry and he finally just got tired of waiting and mowed it damp. With frequent stops for a baby robin! Flying lessons were taking place in the back yard and he didn't want to run over it. At one point, he had me go move it off of the fence at the dog yard because Frasier might have had a snack, if he'd seen the little featherbrain. The baby robin was pretty stubborn, but I think that the parents finally got it to fly off with them.
When Bill was mowing the front yard, I found a tiny toad in the grass. It was smaller than the top of my thumb. It was a toad and not a tree frog, it was just very small. I relocated "him" to the back yard to be free of being mowed as well as the fact that it would have more access to water, hiding spots and mosquitos. How did the little squishy thing repay me? He leaked! I wasn't really surprised, they tend to do that.
The first rain barrel has been full for a while but we haven't been using it. The spigot was plastic and the twisty part broke off a while back so we left it closed until we could get a metal spigot to replace the plastic one. Which we forgot about! We've been using the 2nd rain barrel, every time we get it down to a point where Bill can consider moving it back into place (it got out of place when it froze over the winter and the bottom shape changed), it would rain again. Bill remembered the first rain barrel spigot issue today, so we went to Ace Hardware and got a metal one. Which was the wrong size, so I had to go back and exchange it. He drained the first rain barrel and cleaned it out, then he put a mosquito dunk in it and put the metal spigot on it. It's ready for rain now. Of course, that probably means that it won't rain for a while...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOADLES!
Blogger is being odd today, it won't let me justify the margins and eaven everything up. Which is a real problem for the Borg Queen! Everything in it's place...
(Nevermind, I found a backdoor way to fix it.)
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