All posts tagged 4th of July

The Wonder of Bugs

We’ve been doing a lot of yard work since we’re having a big 4th bash this year. Lots of weed pulling, grass seeding, flower planting, and general landscaping. Along the way, I’ve come across a lot of bugs. Some, sadly, I’m not too thrilled with, like say this big old wasp nest under the pool:

Wasp Nest

That was not a fun find. Luckily we had spray so it got sprayed that night. (It’s “sister” nest was not too far away.)

While weeding out front, I came across a baby praying mantis. Aww, cute right?

Baby Praying Mantis
Too bad there must have been a nest near by, because I saw about 5 of them hopping around.  Glad I didn’t find the actual nest or the momma.

After it was all said and done, I did come across a pretty dragonfly:

Dragonfly
I was shocked that it stayed still long enough for me to grab the camera! LOL

The yard is shaping up, thankfully. We’ve got a few more areas to take care of. Some more border building with bricks and some spots that need weeding and mulch added to it. Hopefully we can get that done, along with the house cleaned by the 4th (so glad we’re having it on the Saturday—one extra weekend day to clean!).

June 2nd—what the frak?!

Oy. How did we get to June 2nd already? I remember it was just the other day that I was planning my invites for the 4th of July party. What started as a small event has 88 people now invited. Just so you can get an idea, my house is just shy of 1200sq ft. ;) Hopefully, it will be nice so we can stay outside. Plenty of room out there, thankfully.

But seriously, time seems to be disappearing quicker and quicker. Things I plan on doing, just no time. Never any time for fun stuff. Shoot, never any time for just regular stuff. Here I sit at the old computer, when I have a brand new one sitting (and operating) right next to me. But I haven’t had the time to copy everything over to it. So yes, I’ve got TWO desktops and monitors running on one desk. Talk about multitasking! LOL

Something seriously needs to change, lol. I have digiscrap challenges I want to try (anyone who is interested, check out Scrap Orchard’s 28 Days for Free’Bees). I have pages that I want to scrap that aren’t part of a challenge. I have teacher gifts to scrap. I have Father’s Day coming up. I have soooo much to do. I need more hours!

/whine

Sorry. I’m done. Just so frustrating that there isn’t enough time (or that I’m scheduling correctly!). And on that note, I’m off for my walk. Trying to lose 10 pounds by July 4th. Would love more, but 10 would be a good start. :)

Happy 4th of July [early]

Considering I have to overhaul the house before people can step inside on Saturday, I figured I’d take a moment to say, “Happy 4th of July!”

I made cute, cute, cute invitations using the Fire Up The Grill kit from Julie Billingsley. Unfortunately I think I’m the only one who appreciates the fact that I create my invitations at home and print them up as actual photos at Costco. Ah well.

Invitation July 4th

So we’re going to have about 30 people here on Saturday. The house needs to be cleaned and I need to create a list of what is needed still. And here’s hoping that the weather is nice. Right now we’re looking at sunny and 80º–but we all know how that goes, especially lately.

So on that note, Happy 4th of July and may your weather be perfect!