happy eclipse day...

I took these Sunday evening...

this was "the during" shot...

I think I have a roller or paint brush in my hands most of the time these days...

this is "the after" shot...

I painted the potting bench and lightly brushed the fencing...

did you see the furrbabies in the first photo?

there's Lester...

 

and there's Mr Wiggles and Mr Peebody...

( in the washtub )

I had painted these back in the spring and then just took a dry roller over the top of them..

I toned them down a couple of notches...

I had nothing to do with this morning glory winding its way up the frame and curling around it...

but I love it...

its awesome in the mornings when its blooming...

putting back the odds and ends...

I pulled about half of the plants in here, too...

looks much better...

this years start of Lamb's Ear...

its the softest thing ever...

and it spreads very well...

still waiting on the deck floor paint, but it says it will be in on Wednesday now...

got rain coming tomorrow, so planning on doing that over the weekend...

its been so dry here, we have missed all the rain the last few weeks...

so hoping for some on Tuesday...

we are mowing every other week now...

this is going to be a fun place to be for years to come...

even as I get to where I have more trouble getting around...

I LOVE the checker board design and wish we could do it everywhere, but it will take time getting enough blocks...

everything is picked over this year and they don't re-order until the spring...

all of this just because the other side of the house flooded so bad in the spring...

everything has a silver lining to it...

and its really working out for us...

and DH really likes it...

(sometimes he doesn't like my ideas as much as I do)

so that's a big plus around here...

;)

we were cloud covered today with thunderstorms south...

not much of an eclipse here, either...

it got dim, but more like just cloud cover but with a funky hue to it...

the birds did quit singing and the cicadas started sounding off...

that's the only change we had...

the dusk to dawn lights didn't even come on...

Craig's off the next 2 days...

so we will be inside much of tomorrow, depending if we get rain or not and when it comes in...

we have things to do around here inside and out...

but the list is getting shorter all the time...

might even get the fall house cleaning started...

have a good week!