Today has been a good, good day. Why? Because we finally got some rain last night!
See my bucket?
This is a five gallon, and it was slap empty yesterday. And my little 2 gallon was completely full.
I found some empty peanut butter jars and stored as much as I could for the dry season next summer. Why? Because a Venus Fly Trap is very sensitive to minerals and they must have either rain water or distilled water. The more rain water I can collect and save, the less distilled water I have to buy.
Anyway...I also checked my garden spot, and it seems to have settled very well. There are still a few high spots I can shave down and scoot the dirt over into the lower spots, but overall, I'm pleased. By the way, the little anti scratch cat spray didn't work. I'll have to put the plastic stuff down in the rest of the beds, hopefully I can get to that after Thanksgiving and before I have to go back to work. It doesn't take long, and the stuff is very easy to cut.
In more good news, someone came and picked up all the stuff I was trying to give away -- even the stadium seats I've been trying to give away since September. You'd think with it being football season, someone would want them, but apparently they didn't.
This guy, I think he runs a thrift store or something, because he's come and gotten junk from me before. Some people would get all bent out of shape over this, but I'm OK with it. This guy works as a security guard at a local factory, and they don't make any kind of money. Whatever I can do to help someone out, and it helps me out as well by decluttering my house.
In other news, I've been trying to figure out how to decorate my new baker's rack for Christmas, but couldn't come up with anything. Everything I tried interfered with actually using said rack. The best I could come up with was to hang some Christmas mugs on the hooks.
Looking at this photo now, it looks like I have room for a couple more mugs. I don't know why they included six hooks, when there isn't room in that space for six mugs. The most I have been able to fit is five -- and that is really cramming them in there.
I've got the rest of the house decorated, except the outside lights.
I noticed this year that several of my strings of lights are dim and flickering. I don't know how fast they are supposed to wear out, but I do know that as much as I paid for this tree, they should have lasted longer than just five years. That's not even counting the ones that were chewed up a couple of years ago by mice or whatever it was.
There is a customer service number you can call to order replacement parts, but I'm wondering if it's even worth it. ON the other hand, if the mouse or rat or whatever damaged the strings that are dim and flickering, maybe I should get some new strings. Oh, and I discovered my heavy plastic box I bought to store it in has a place to put a lock. I won't need a lock, but I can put an s-hook in there just to make sure nothing can get the lid open.
Abrupt change of subject. Apparently when I repotted my Christmas cacti, I got a sprig of the red mixed in with the pink.
It's going to stay that way until I repot them again, too.
And finally, I've spent pretty much all day cooking the stuff I'm going to take down to Jackson tomorrow. I even made two pies -- which I'm not taking down there. Cody said they'd buy a pumpkin pie at...Costco, I think he said, so we don't really need mine. I made them anyway...for me.
All of that cooking has gotten the house pretty warm, but don't touch my thermostat.
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