More mowing and art

Today I finished all of the mowing that was possible due to the wet areas outside of the fence. I mowed a hour and 10 min. Took a lunch and computer break and then mowed about another hour. Hopefully with it being cooler and November after all, the grass will stop growing for this year.

I did a little stamping on the double page spread in the altered book that I'm using for the art journal work right now. Last night I gessoed the pages (which are actually multiple pages glued together creating thick pages) and painted them a light tanish color and tonight I did some stamping in the corners. I have a neat looking envelope from hot chocolate and am thinking about having a chocolate theme here but not sure how it will pan out yet.

Tuesday......

Today we took Zippy to PetSmart to be groomed. Elizabeth is so nice and did a great job as usual. While we were waiting we went to Target and looked at portable CD players and cameras. After the last camera that we tried and returned, I just don't know about trying to get a new camera. It was a Sony H-20 and I liked the camera, just didn't like it's software on the computer and how all that worked. So....hmmm
By the time we did that and went to Subway and picked up a sandwich, Elizabeth called that Zippy was done and we went to pick him up.

Later I mowed grass. I mowed for 50 minutes, came in for a break, talked to my cousin who called, and then went back and mowed about another 45 minutes. I have almost all of the fenced part of the yard done. In some places I was really stirring up some dust. I plan to mow over by the garage and the other driveways tomorrow. I also might do some out back if I have time and it isn't too wet. Amazing that I'm making dust up here and there is standing water back there.

Also talked to my neighbor and friend on the phone tonight.

I thought about my journal page work earlier this morning and didn't do any thing then, so I going to go work on a background or something for a start and I don't really have too much of a plan at this time.

Just for the record......

It is 10:50 P.M. and the temperature is 83 degrees and feels like 92. It's almost the middle of the night, hello people. Where is fall????? Some leaves are falling but the grass is still growing. I mowed some today and it was 88 felt like 92 or something with the sun out, humid and the mosquitoes were bad. I am SO done with hot weather. We have been hot for 5 months. When we were in TN in July it wasn't as hot during the day as it is here at night in Oct. Go figure....

Back home yet again.

We're back from north Louisiana where hubby did some work at our niece's newly purchased house which had some electrical issues. He got that taken care of and did a few other things for her too. We had a good visit and really enjoyed getting to see her new home which is so cute. This is her first house so it's very exciting and maybe even a little scary. Many of her friends came on Saturday and had a painting party which took care of the 2 rooms that needed that and it was nice to meet them. I think the furniture is getting moved today and tomorrow so she probably will be spending her first night there tomorrow night. She has a great back deck and a privacy fenced yard so Sophie and Zippy went with us. Miss Ellie Mae went to board again for the few days that we were away which made it so much easier for her and us.

The grass was already needing to be mowed when we left so I mowed for an hour yesterday morning before 9 and got the part around the house taken care of. I mowed another hour this morning and got a lot more done. Another hour tomorrow morning should probably take care of most of it. One good thing was that it rained some yesterday afternoon so I wasn't stirring up dust as usually happens and that was great. I'll be glad to be done with the HOT weather. ACK!