Picking Pecans and other Wednesday Things.....

We haven't had a good pecan crop in several years and this year will not be a great one - but we are getting some! This morning I woke up to beautiful cool fall weather!! With the doors open, I could hear the squirrels chirping away and I just KNEW they were going to eat up every pecan on the tree!

They did that one year! 

So Louis Dean and I go out every afternoon like little old farmers gathering in the harvest - albeit a meager one.

In years past, the harvest would be so great it would fill a couple of big galvanized trash cans plus baskets and baskets full of pecans!

I'm just hoping for enough to make a couple batches of Fruitcake Cookies for the holidays.

This afternoon we rallied around and went out to finish getting the rain curtains up in the gazebo.

It's all quite comfy in here now. 

We couldn't find new garden chairs that we liked and could afford. 

Louis Dean held on to his old OLD chair that was well over 25 years old for the longest.

After the gazebo came down for repairs - I hauled it to the curb and Louis Dean never said a word.

We are using a chair and a double seat glider that we already had for now.

Making do with what we have is something we are both pretty good at.

Do you see my charming Witch tree?

Here she is!!

I found a shoe for her in the guest room - alas - I only had one!

This is the comfy glider and I am loving it!

A great place to read! 

When it came time to tighten up the curtain rods Louis Dean made (from PVC pipes he spray painted to match the gazebo and hung along the perimeter) we couldn't make the seams meet.

No problem.

I took one of our old rain curtains, measured it out to allow a bit of extra room and stitched a seam down the length, cut off the excess and hung them up. The zippers matched easily and now we can close it all up in bad weather!

I came in to do some art and Louis Dean took a long hot soaking bath.

Then he went to bed.

Neither one of us slept well last night.

At 3:30 this morning I had gone into the guest room after finally getting up and fixing a hot toddy to curb the coughing fits that had kept me awake. I had just got to sleep when Louis Dean came in and flipped on the lights and was about to crawl into bed - not yet realizing I was already there!!!

He had got cold (AC in the bedroom was on) and decided to sleep the rest of the night in the guest room. He backed out when he found me there but I decided it was best to get up and switch beds with him. Sure enough, he was back in the bedroom heaving blankets around with the big light on and turning the AC off. We are a pair at night never knowing which one of us won't be able to sleep. I'm sure my coughing didn't help him get to sleep! Tonight he hugged me goodnight and said he was going to start out in the guest room. Wise man. 

He's so funny. This morning I found a big white bowl, his big spoon (he uses big spoons - not the teaspoons in the silverware set) and a box of frosted mini wheats.....in the bathroom! He gets up and takes it all in there where it is warmer and eats. One night I got up to go to the bathroom and I heard this clicking sound. It was the spoon hitting against the bowl as he ate his cereal. I just went back to bed. That's why I wasn't surprised to see the cereal box this morning. He keeps it in his clothes cupboard right there in the bathroom!

I'm still painting Tipsy Donkeys!

And I started a few small fun canvases and hope to finish them in time to use as door prizes for the Bee Meeting this month. It's next Tuesday so I better finish them tomorrow and hope they dry in time. Reds and blues are the slowest oils to dry so I should be okay.

That's it for tonight's journal entry!

I'm going back to the dining room and paint for awhile longer.

It seems it is late afternoon before I really get going. Guess that's why I stay up so late!