Sunday, October 20, 2024

Saturday, October 19, 2024

Shaun and I worked super hard today.

Shaun and I worked super hard today. The greenhouse is strapped down and tied down and the bottom is attached to the ground. Everything is tightened. We didn't get to the floor, but hopefully tomorrow. I have shelves coming on Monday so I would really like for it to be ready to move into by then.

The only thing that's not complete besides the floor is the two windows (the OTHER two windows), but we don't need them right now so that can wait. We have two windows that will auto-open if it gets too hot. We'll have to cut the space for them out of the sides and it might not be hard to do, but we're TIRED. Other than that, we'll probably run water to it, but that's also not urgent.

Here is a picture of it completed. Also, some of my plants are blushing beautifully, so I got a few photos. They are not edited at all besides cropping. Oh, and I found a little lizard sleeping in one of my empty pots. He was definitely sleeping and not dead because he'd moved later. ❤️ I also got a few more blooms from two of my cacti. I just love them all so much! ❤️❤️❤️ I hope they like their new home!




I love his hair! 😂😁

I really don't know what's growing under this cactus. I'm gonna wait and see what it is. It doesn't look like the same thing as the cactus, but I could be wrong.

The colors!

Sleeping friend. ❤️

Blooms! ❤️

I don't think last night was what any of us were expecting. 😂

I don't think last night was what any of us were expecting. 😂

When we were eating dinner, the wind kicked up pretty hard (not unusual for here), but it also started raining hard.

I ran outside and started moving my plants into the greenhouse because I really hate for them to be watered from the top. If water remains on them, it can cause rot and the leaves can also get burn spots if the water is still there when the sun comes back out.

The roof and walls of the greenhouse are up, but the floor isn't done, my shelves aren't in, and in general, moving plants quickly in the dark and the rain is not ideal. Not to mention that I really, really wanted to clean the dust, bird poop, and any possible pests off of them before putting them in there, but at this point I'm just glad I had somewhere dry to put them.

Shaun came out to help me and about the same time we were done moving them, the rain had passed. Of course. 😒 What I didn't know was that there was more on the way. By the time I went to bed, it was raining again. It rained for a long time. I fell asleep listening to it.

I woke up this morning to two funny messages from Shadow. One:  We have a little roof leak in the stairwell. He put a cup underneath to catch it. (This one's only funny because it won't rot my house like it would've in Alabama. It'll dry fast here. We'll get it checked out/repaired and it'll be fine.)

The second message, well, see the image. 😂

This is funny because we ordered a microwave from Best Buy several weeks ago, but it never came, so Shaun called customer service and they sent out another one. We got the second one according to the tracking numbers. But just the other day, the one we ordered first showed up after being lost in the mail for weeks. We assumed it had been stolen. But anyway, it's been sitting in the living room, new in the box, because we didn't know what to do with it. I guess that sorted itself out. 😂

I haven't been awake for long. It's cool and cloudy, so very tempting to stay in bed with my weighted blanket and the cats. But I guess I need to get up, see if we can finish the greenhouse, and check on my plants.

Happy Saturday, y'all. ❤️


Friday, October 18, 2024

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Look at these dogs:

Look at these dogs:

Construction Bear and Supervisor Cub have been working hard today.

Cub is really good at observing from a distance when we're busy... but Bear is up in EVERYTHING we do. 😂

We got the top and sides put on the greenhouse today.

There are paw prints and scratch marks on a few of my brand new walls. (It's fine - it has character now.) When Shaun was up a ladder stretching to screw in some screws, Bear stood up against the wall, too. When Shaun climbed the ladder, Bear walked through the bottom rungs. When I was grabbing the nuts to the bolts that Shaun was screwing in, there was a purposefully placed paw in the parts box. When Shaun went to look out of the window, Bear followed like "What are we lookin' at?"  😂😂😂

I've had dogs who are interested in what we're doing, but never one as interested as Bear and certainly never one who seemed to try to imitate our moves like he does. He's so interesting. We love him to pieces. I am so, so thankful that Shaun has so much patience for this pup (and all of the animals, really).

I could've had a ton of cute photos of Bear today, but I was helping on breaks from work and I know that Shaun is sore and tired of working on this greenhouse. We just buckled down to get as much done as we could.

We need to do the straps over the top and attach it to the ground. We also need to finish the floor and get some shelves set up. Then it'll be ready for my plants! 😁