Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Good morning. I was up at 3 AM to unplug the crockpot. The dogs roast beef crockpot dinner was supposed to be finished at 8 o’clock, but the potatoes and the butternut squash were not tender yet. Anyway, it ran most of the night and the house smelled like delicious roast beef. I couldn’t sleep, so I got up and finished up the process of mashing things together adding the supplements, and storing it. Then of course it was wash up time. Mark managed to sleep through all this racket and wandered out at 7 o’clock to find Ms. B and I snoozing on the sofa. 😂

Mark has just come back from taking the kids for a golf cart ride, so I guess you could say these two Scotties are well taken care of.  🐾🥰 

We met Randy and Dawn for bowling today.

Of course we had lots of laughs, and a few good games. Mark had a Cobb salad for lunch which was only nine dollars, and it was huge and good! Randy and Dawn shared a quesadilla and I had boneless wings. Everything was good. 

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Good morning. We had a fun time last night at Pat and Ken’s. Talk turned to a notice of public meeting from our Lake County. There will be a hearing for a new development for a 120 lot single-family residential subdivision. It will be Northwest and east of our Harbor Shores Road. Although this will not really affect us per se, it will add traffic to our Harbor Shores Road. For this reason, we need to attend and voice our concerns. We will need a traffic light and perhaps a wall between the neighborhoods. Then there is the question of adding more homes onto the water sources. 

Walking home from Pat and Ken‘s last night, the blind mosquitoes were horrific. I will have to call the county today to do a spray. We must’ve had a major hatching with all the rain. They are aquatic midges, but for some reason Randy doesn’t get them on the Apopka canal area. 

We are finished up with the shower stall at the K’s except for the showerhead and diverter. Here are a few pics … 

Pictures can’t capture the sparkle of the glass tile, but you get the idea. 🤩

I can hardly believe that we are nearing the end of August, so quickly. Do I detect a smell of pumpkin spice in the air? As soon as September 1st arrives, you would think the calendar had changed full on to fall. Everything will be pumpkins and autumn decor. Ha.

Monday, August 29, 2022

Good morning. I was awake half the night, very excited to watch Artemis launch to the moon. Of course, being a first, there were delays and now the next date will be September 4th. I will be watching. Anyway, we were up early as well to go to the K’s house to clean up and put trash out for Tuesday’s pick up.

I vacuumed and cleaned the granite, mirrors and dusted everything down. Then Mark came in and vacuumed again, so I think we’ve got the dust under control. While I was dusting the rest of the house, he went out and washed Sue’s car and took it for a joy ride. Ha. There is a little drywall patching to do here and there where there had been old water damage. I have the towels from the master bathroom in the wash, as you know they had to have picked up dust. And, the bathmats too! We’re not planning to be here too long today as we have been invited to dinner at Pat and Ken‘s along with KimBob. 

Meow 😸 

Saturday, we went with Randy and Dawn to our favorite Mexican restaurant in downtown Eustis. This time, Mark Randy and I ordered taco salad. Now everything there has always been delicious, but these taco salads were awful. There was no seasoning, no flavor, just lettuce, tomatoes and whatever meat we had requested. I had requested shredded beef which came out looking like lumps on top of my salad that I wouldn’t have given to my dogs. So, I certainly do not recommend their taco salads. I was expecting something flavorful like Taco Bell used to serve. They were our favorites with a little hot sauce added on top. These at Del Sol had no refried beans in them whatsoever. 

Afterwords, RanDawn  came back to our house and we played Mexican dominoes and chatted until 1130. It was really fun to catch up with them.

Saturday, August 27, 2022

Good afternoon. It was so nice to wake up and just take our time this morning. We had a very busy week, and now onto jobs here at our house. As you heard last week, we need a new septic field dug. This involves taking down two of our huge queen palm trees that we planted 22 years ago! Of course at that time we had no idea where our septic field was. We only learned that in the last few years. Anyway, who knew that a queen palm puts down roots 4 feet deep. What? We were always told that they were shallow roots. Well, apparently they are not. No wonder they survive through all the hurricanes.  

That’s my guy! 😍

Crank it … using the come-along. 

Yank it … I was scared to watch! 

Run!!! 

Where’s Mark? 😱

Whew! As I said in the video, “I guess he did know what he was doing!” 😂

This evening, we are meeting Randy and Dawn for dinner and then playing dominoes over here.

Friday, August 26, 2022

Good afternoon. We were both up about 5 AM for some ungodly reason. So, after breakfast of bacon and eggs we got into washing more of the sunroom windows. It sounds simple, but each window Hass to be numbered and removed. Then cleaned both sides by Mark while I clean the tracks. Anyway, the deed is now done and the room looks fresh. 

Jonathan, our tile guy finished up today with the tile and is now grouting it. We thought we might be able to head home yet, but he says it’ll be another three hours or so. 🤷‍♀️ We’ve been here 6 days now! Yes, there’s plenty to do in the villages, but we are housesitting. Robbie really wants to go home. 🐾🥰

It’s National Dog Day! 🥳🐾🥰

Here’s the helpers, watching golfers as dad and I clean the windows. 

Thursday, August 25, 2022

Good morning. It’s an absolutely gorgeous start to the day. I walked the dogs along with Mark before he left to go to our house to meet up with the septic pump company. We are sure hoping that it is just something caught in the filter in the septic system. Otherwise, we are going to need an entire new field! 😱

So at 9:30 the first worker Jamall, arrived. Yesterday the poor guy was coughing like crazy all day. He thought it was from cutting concrete wallboard on the saw. Whatever it was, he sounds worse today so Jonathan sent him home. So, we are down one man on the job but Jonathan assures me it will get finished this week. (I sure hope so, things are piling up at my own house.) 

Sue and Wayne had company. Lynn and her cousin are visiting! Friends from Northern Harbor came over. It looks like a beautiful day. And I love the new windows! 

Here’s an update on the K’s tile project. It’s going to be fabulous! 

Well, we need a new septic field! There is no filter on the tank going to the field! Drat. 💩 We’ll have to take down two beloved queen palm trees before the new field can be dug. And, the RV must come out of storage so the equipment can access the backyard. Yikes. Ca-ching. 🥹

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Good afternoon. It’s about 4 o’clock and we’ve had a reasonably busy day. The tilers are working on the bathroom job so Mark and I got into cleaning the tracks and the windows in the Sunroom. It’s a big job, but we don’t have to do it in one day.

Have you seen this? I still feel like a teenager most days. 😂 And, I got a pimple today. 

Relaxing at 4 o’clock. Time to make the dogs dinners. 🐾🥰

We had plans to go to Longhorn tonight, but Jonathan, has other plans. He wants to get the tile floor in tonight. No problem, that’s why we are here! Rice cakes all around. 😂