After
a day in the city doing work stuff and BSing for a couple of hours
with an artist friend I don't see often, last Wednesday both our jobs
told us to hold up there Nellie, not so fast. I was set to finish
the door panel and had the installation set tentatively for this week
when the designer told us to hold off on the install for two or three
weeks. Not ready for the glass so of course I didn't do the
final day of work on the door panel. The same day, the art
consultant asked me to put my progress on pause until she got some
feedback from the client on the compositional sketches I had sent in.
Well, alrighty then. At this rate it may be fall before we finish
the A&M job.
Actually,
it was a good thing because now that I have started on these two
jobs, I was reminded
that I volunteered to do the art work and ordering for the postcard
for the open house a group of us have all agreed to do the first
weekend of June at our glass blowing friends' studio, similar to the
one we do in December but this time, it is not just glass. I should
have been working on that while I was waiting for The Job. This is
my life. Dick around until I see the deadline looming, so I spent
the rest of last week working on that.
What
else. The turtle pond is finally clearing up again I'm glad to see.
I guess it's been about 6 weeks since I upset the balance in the
filter.
And I
got the azaleas in on Sunday.
Just
in time because Sunday night the heavens opened and it rained all
night and all day yesterday. We got between 3.5” - 5” depending
on which rain gauge I looked at. Houston got 16” and is once again
flooded. We had water standing in the side yard but that's pretty
standard after a hard rain. Water was all the way up to my
daughter's house in the city though and she did get a little in the
house, the low room that is the converted garage. Fortunately they
were awake from the storm and moved the furniture out and got the
cars all up on the lawn.
So,
I was sitting here at my computer with the dog laying in my lap when
all of a sudden she was up, alert, jumped down, started barking as
she ran over to the door. I followed and saw this which had come in
the back door with the screen propped open so the dog can come and go
as she pleases. Seems something else tried to come in out of the
rain. It's a young rat snake about 2 feet long, harmless to humans
and dogs. I used the broom to sweep it back outside and the screen
door is now firmly shut. It didn't try to strike me, just seemed
annoyed that I was trying to get it out of the house.
Just
another day in paradise.
Here we are, us country women, planting our plants and shooing snakes out our doors. And there you are in the midst of it all- CREATING ART!
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to decide how freaked out I would be about the snake. I think a low-level freak out. Now, if it was a rat, then all bets are off & we'd be sifting through the rubble. (Not really, but it would be close!).
ReplyDeleteI DO love your pretty snake! Beautiful form, looks like velvet! Can do without the rain shots, burned out on rain...for a lifetime! LOVE Ms. turtle and her golden girls!
ReplyDeleteA frightful visitor, I had a stone foundation on my old home and had a collection each spring.
ReplyDeleteI have enough days in paradise without snakes, too. The cat who delivered garter snakes now lives in a little box of ashes.
ReplyDeleteYep we've had a rat the size of a small dog brought in by a cat before. The turtles I am envious of. The snake not. I saw many of those turtles when I was in Houston. Loved watching them.
ReplyDeleteMy wife would have a heart attack if a snake like that came into our house.
ReplyDeleteI didn't hear about all that rain in Houston! Holy cow!
ReplyDeleteThat snake is pretty. They do move around when it rains, as I recall from my Florida years.
Yes, several of my bloggers have posted about flooding and wet yards and rivers overflowing. I remember a Texas flood that I went through. Destroyed most of the furniture in the house. It was awful and I neer want todo that again. We get those snakes here and had a copperhead come into the garage last year!
ReplyDeleteI like the postcard and your most recent plantings, not so much the snake. Sorry to hear about all the flooding down your way, which is becoming a much too often occurrence. Sounds like some infrastructure needs an update....
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