It's very hard not to fill the blog up with kitten pictures - they are both so cute!  Jessie is a little feisty, and James is a little sweetie.  

 

 And the newest addition - she is from Haven Humane.  

Together, they are Jessie (the black kitten) and James (the white kitten).

Look what followed me home from IKEA! Well, actually it was a sidetrip after we went to IKEA. Cindy M‘s daughter had a litter of kittens and I just happen to be looking for a little black kitten, so after visiting IKEA yesterday we drove over to her daughters place outside of Cool and brought home a kitten. No name for her yet, though her kids named her Shadow.

It’s official, vacation has started! And as usual it’s a staycation complete with chores around the house. My first chore… Getting rid of the junk we pulled out of the sheds including the riding lawnmower that was parked there 20 years ago and not moved since. So far, we got the riding lawnmower removed. The pile of junk is still waiting for Alex and I to move because the company that came and hauled the lawnmower away wanted more to haul it than I wanted to pay to have it hauled.

This is what’s left to haul away….

 

It's official - the AC is dead in the guest house...I started a repair though AHS - my home warranty company - the first part of May, when it first started warming up.  Two months and $600.00 later, the contractor on the job ghosted me and AHS, so they had to assign a new contractor.  Part of the $600.00 was for Freon, because my warranty doesn't cover the replacement costs for Freon, so I paid to have a leak fixed and re-filled with Freon, and...it still didn't work.  When the original contractors turned it on after "fixing" the leak, the compressor blew.  He left, saying he was calling AHS and they would get back to me......and then didn't return phone calls.

Skip forward through the required time needed for AHS to try to contact him, and they sent me a new contractor - after waiting another two weeks to get on their schedule.  When the new contractor showed up, we discovered that the first contractor had not put the unit back together - all the wiring was off the unit.....  Why???  Needless to say, the new contractor refused to "rebuild" the unit - not only is it old, it probably still has a leak, the compressed is probably dead, and the wiring is gone.....they are done, so....in a couple of months I'll have a brand new AC....at my cost of $4,000 (AHS is picking up the rest - the last quote I got was for $12,000).  For the interim, I bought a portable AC unit (another $500) so I can continue to work....it did a pretty good job when we were 107, so....it's a temporary fix at least, and an expensive summer.

Kendra's baby shower is in three weeks, and....I have one quilt almost finished, and the top done for the second one.  The first one is a simple panel, so didn't take long (though it did take two trips tot he store for fabric - I needed more than I thought.)

The second one has taken three trips to the store, and a complete re-do of the project.  I started with a whole different set of fabric strips (jelly rolls).  The first set was solid blues with a background fabric of white with grey dots, and I cut one set wrong, so needed another roll and background fabric, and.....I put them together wrong the second time (they didn't match the color sequencing for the first set) so....back to the store again, and....they were out of the background fabric.  Completely back to the drawing board!  New colors all around, and I was on my way.

Today was National Take Your Dog To Work Day and Koori was at my toes while I worked from home…

 

I went over to Randy and Laurie's on Monday- just to catch up, since I haven't seen them in a while, and to play with some babies....they have baby chicks and kittens!

This one almost followed me home, but I'm not quite ready for a new kitten.

 

One more project done!  Randy came over and got the pressure washer going for us, and AJ tested it out. 

The results are pretty visible!  You can see where he stopped.

 

There’s just something wrong with this much change in temperature in a few days! I’m scheduled to have Book Club here on Wednesday and the high is going to be 107?

We had Picot put down yesterday - the cancer got the best of her...rest in peace, my butt-head kitty...

 

I think I should have watered yesterday…..

 

I've been MIA lately - busy and not getting up in the morning with enough time to post before Alli is up.  The last couple of weekends were super busy - I hosted Emma's baby shower here on the 4th, so was on clean-up mode - yard looking good, house looking good, guest house cleaned out (we served the food where I usually have my work computer set up and a bunch of junk stored.)  I even cleaned up my pantry!!!  The before:

The after - much better!

AJ and I cleaned out a couple of bays in the sheds - the after:

The pile going to the dump:

And the two bays left to do....