Taping and Mudding

 Poor Rod.

Not much variety in his life.

Now that he's all done with the plumbing

(just some minor shower stuff left

and connecting it all to the septic...)

he is now on the Taping and Mudding detail.

He's doing a great job!

It's not without its challenges....

the tray flipped off his ladder and

hit him in the sleeve.

Good thing it's just mud.

Washes right out.

I'll help him when I can,

but next week is all about the garden.

I need to get the tomatoes and peppers

in the ground now that the COLD

is likely over for the year.

Last frost date is like the 5th of May,

but looking at the forecast we are

in the low 40's to 50's overnight

(with one HIGH 30) between

now and then.

PLUS we want to get the seeds

in the ground as well.

We can't wait to see actual green stuff

growing in the garden!

Yesterday I went to my friend Mary's 

house - she started more than she needed

and so I got 2 "No Heat Jalapeno"

as well as 2 Pablano peppers.

I forgot to get any of those seeds.

So that will be nice.

I'll probably put them in the raised beds

here at the house.

I'm going to leave a couple of the other

tomatoes and peppers here as well

so Jim and Sabrina will have something

in the gardens besides flowers and

potatoes and garlic.

Our bush under Kyle's window is looking 

GLORIOUS this week!

(Rod JUST mowed... those darn dandelions

pop up overnight!)

Anyhow.

Just finished the Louisiana class for the day.

I'm tired of sitting in this chair....

I'm headed to the living room to chat with

my honey and make him some dinner.

Have a lovely Saturday evening!

OH!!!!!!

And while I was at Mary and Dave's we

were talking about their aphid issues

(luckily we haven't have that yet...)

but we have GRASSHOPPERS

and they said to get some TURKEYS!

Those guys LOVE grasshoppers and will

eat every last one of them.

In fact, after they were all gone,

they trundled down the road to the 

neighbor's field and ate all those too!

Dave just walked down every night

and pushed them back home.

So.... we might need to get a couple

of turkeys!

(They said they had 20 of them,

one drowned in the water trough

and the other hit an electric wire and

got tangled and died....)

But they ate all the grasshoppers

so they didn't need to feed them

and their biggest was FORTY POUNDS!

Anyhow.

Something to consider....