Sunday afternoon

Its a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the Boondocks. Sitting on the deck having lunch. Tommy is out on the bayou in the boat looking for fish.  Had a big old snapper turtle on his line yesterday.  Luckily it got away. Good thing Callie (our dog) wasn't in the boat she would have gone crazy.  Fish would be better. Maybe he'll have better luck today.

Still without hot water. It will be this next week sometime before the plumbers get one in and then they will come install it. We will be in Fort Worth the first part of the week, so it will be at least Thursday before they can come, hopefully they can get it done then.  Hate washing dishes in the sink(miss my dishwater but I guess it doesn't work without hot water coming into it.). Its not too bad to heat water for washing, Can handle that for a couple of days, it reminds me of heating water on Nannie's stove and taking baths in the hotel in Kinderhook (was there a boiler that heated water there?)  But I will be glad to have the shower back nice and hot. Heated water today and give Callie a bath, I know she probably wouldn't mind cold water, but I have to get in the bath tub with her to wash her, so I wanted it at least warm.. Shes now laying in the sun enjoying the warmth.
Tommy just got back with a fish, and some wild blackberrys from along the bayou. Have to go find a recipe for cobbler.  Talk later
kate

New computer

Okay, we are going to try this again and see if I can keep this updated. Got a new computer so it should be easier, the other died a slow death. Went to Best Buy and liked this dell so got it. Still have to do something about getting better internet service, right now we have verizon wireless which gets about 2 bars worth of coverage.  Will probability look into getting satellite in the future(when our verizon contract is over).  That what happens when you live in the Boondocks.
Still waiting on AnnMarie to make an appearance. She was due on the 12th, so she is already a typical girl by being late.  Figure she will come this weekend while I am working so we won't be able to go til next week.  Can 't wait to spoil her as only a Nana can.
Have a lot a pictures to share. I am going to put the new garden pictures under the squarefoot gardening page The second page is this years garden --2011, so check them out there, the garden is looking really good this year. Hopefully we will get a  lot of goodies from it. Already eating fresh lettuce and loving it.Started a lot of it from seeds we got with the gift certificate Darius and Nicole gave us for Christmas. It was hard not to buy everything from the catalog. We had to add another 2 boxes to plant everything we had. Now we just need to get some rain. (we have a rain barrel that we use for watering, its getting pretty low). May have to dig an irrigation ditch from the bayou.  Just can't wait to eat a salad with everything in it fresh from the garden.
The orange and lemon trees are coming along alright, may be another couple of years before we see any fruit. The grapefruit tree bloomed this year and it full of little grapefruit balls. We will still have to wait til next year to be able to tell if its the kind that blooms every other year.(didn't have any last year, but don't know if that was because of the storm.)
I am working on getting some house interior pictures up, have to get them from the other computer and copy over here. Will have them up soon, so go check out the garden photos for now
Talk to you soon
Love,
Kate

back to blogging

Well its pretty bad that I have not posted anything on this blog since last November.  The worst is that I really do have a lot to show you. We are still out here in the Boondocks making the house our own.  Almost have it all done the way we want it. Still have the bathrooms and laundry to do.  Finished the guest room and my office/craft room.  Really like how they came out. I will be posting pictures.

Here is the final from the guest room. As you can see I went with purples, lavenders, greens in this room, The bedspread was the inspiration for the room. Still need a dresser or bookshelves or something (I'll know when I find it) for the one wall, and some wall decor for around the bed. The bed we got from my son. love it. One of the things we didn't count on was how high the mattressess would be, but I like them this way just need a stool it reach them.

here is a link for a blog I read, reallly enjoy it.

office

Well I told you I wasn't a very good blogger, its been awhile since I was last here. But I have been busy with life in general and remodeling the house.  Have finally got all the hard work done in the office/craft room space, now it just need furniture, I know what I want its just a mattter of going to Houston and buying it all at Ikea.  We will have to get a truck to load it all into Here are some before, during and after pictures

before

during

mat and jess doing the floor, they did a good job

added a chair rail and changed all the outlets to white, can't wait to get it all decorated now

Snake eating Catfish

Okay yesterday Tommy was out fishing on the dock and called to me to bring the camera, This is what he was watching
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIERLEBgB-4
This is a big water snake catching a catfish, the snake is about 3-4 foot and the fish is10=12 inches long
We kept watching and the snake got the fish to the bank(had to put Callie in the garage-she was barking like crazy) and had it by the side of the mouth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMqm2p0EU4s
In this last video the snake was able to get the fish by the front of its head and started swallowing it, the fish was still alive at this point, but I don't think it lasted much longer Right after this the snake took the fish into the water and we couldn't see it anymore. Would have like to see how long it took to eat the whole fish and what the snake looked like with the fish inside it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGbG2FmRwIo

Here is yet another blog that is giving away silhoutte cutting machine, Can't believe all the creative people out there willing to share their ideas and have such great giveawayshttp://j-a-girl.blogspot.com/2010/06/get-your-silhouette-here.html