finishing up

Rocky and Gunner showed up yesterday morning and started in on finishing up the bathroom, hall, and closet. For the first time since they started back on the house towards the end of last February the back wall of the closet has been permanently closed in, sheetrocked, taped and floated though it was temporarily boarded up while I was in Portugal and again while my friend Helen was here. 

not a very exciting picture but what it represents is very exciting!

Rocky took off after a while to get hopefully the last of the materials needed to finish...a couple of 1x6s, another piece of baseboard trim, the drain part and plumbing kit for the sink, stuff like that. I still need to get the toilet paper holder, soap dish and caddy for the shower, towel bar for under the window, hanging rod for the closet, stuff like that. They're back today.

It's been fairly rainy for the past week or so, nothing heavy or steady but accompanied by rumbling in the distance which turns the dog into a trembling and panting mess. Some areas around us have been getting torrential rain and we drove through some going to and returning from Rockport but mostly we've only gotten light rain off and on. Because of this I hadn't walked the dog for two days and so we set out last night. She seemed anxious to go, trotted down the driveway, turned right and then trotted over to the drive to the shop and stopped and looked up at me.

“What? I'm following you” I told her. Then she trotted up to the door of the shop and looked up at me expectantly.

“We're not going in. There's no one in there.” Earlier in the house she was convinced someone was over at the shop, barking her head off.

As long as we were already over there I went and looked at the garden. OMG it is a total weedy mess. I hadn't been back over there since I pulled up all the corn about 2 1/2 weeks ago completely forgetting about the zucchini I spied and the green beans that were putting on a new burst of flowers and the little eggplant too. The tomatoes are a scraggly mess, still blooming! but not setting fruit though there were still a few green tomatoes covered with stink bugs.

I had noticed a volunteer earlier twined around one of the tomatoes which looked sort of like it would be a melon of some sort and two of the little fruits had turned yellow so I have no idea what this is. It's a tiny thing, about an inch and a half in diameter.

I really need to get over there and pull it all out and try and reclaim the spaces between the beds. I'm going to need the biggest stoutest weedwacker in the world for that. And that was the end of our walk. Minnie made a bee line back to the house.

I did go back over and pick all the green beans, 3 1/2 lbs!, many of which are good for nothing but chicken food they are so big and fat with beans/seeds.

Just came in from pulling up the rest of the squash and the tomatoes leaving the beans, eggplant, bell pepper, and jalapeno but why I left the jalapeno is beyond me. I haven't picked a single one and the plant is full of red and green ones. 

I am one hot wet mess and I left all the debris on the ground to be picked up this evening when the sun isn't blasting.