Get 'R Done Saturday!

I woke up this morning around 10:00, went out to the kitchen to turn on my coffee and peeked in the den to say good morning to Louis Dean......and he wasn't there. I went back through the house looking for him and I still couldn't find him. Then I thought to check the driveway - and the car was gone. I called him on his cell phone and he was at Home Depot buying a blade for his saw to cut through the tail pipe on his truck. I was wrong about it being the muffler yesterday.

When he gets something in his mind he frets about it until he figures it out.

Apparently in the night that's what he did - figured it out!

 I saved my first cup of coffee for when he got home and I went out in the back yard - side yard, really - and started working.

I wanted to get all the plants I bought yesterday in the ground or in pots.

It's nice to see at least s few flowers and my herb garden looking healthy.

I have been watering the dickens out of the back.

It went for all those 100+ degree days without water.

It's beginning to shape up a little now.

Still so much to be done out there.

Both upper and lower decks along this kitchen side of the house will be replaced.

Louis Dean intends to deck the walkway where the stones are on the right so he can get a wheel barrow through there. Plus that's where another sump pump and French drains are so decking over them will work better in case he needs to check on them.

Hard to believe all this looked a jungle of abundant greenery in late spring.

I'm not sure how much ground cover will come back around the old tree trunk.

It was Asian Jasmine, English Ivy and another ground cover that grew great but I can't remember its name. I love the red cedar mulch. It covers a multitude of sins. And plain dirt.

I came in during the heat of the day and was baking cookies when Louis Dean asked if I would drive him to the muffler shop to buy a 30 inch piece of steel for his tail pipe.

He just didn't think he could drive himself.

Since I had been working outside - in my sleep dress - I put a hat on and sunglasses and said there was no way I would get out of the car. Why, I didn't even put earrings and perfume on - and I never leave the house - or the bedroom - without those!

I'm telling you - Louis Dean is a man among men.

He can do anything!

I saw that blood on his arm and figured he had nicked or bumped himself.

Come to find out - he had lost his balance and fell into the rose bush garden - and couldn't get up.

He was supposed to take a nap while I took one but he came out and started working while I was still asleep.

The old tail pipe.

He's all excited about getting the new one on and then he will start on the mud flaps maybe tomorrow or Monday.

He watching football on TV and I have my art set out in the dining room and will go back to it as soon as I close here. I'd like to have these three canvases finished before we go back to the ranch next week. This time we will be on Critter Duty!

That's all the news I have here on this September Saturday night....