Twiggybet1's Blog

Happy Cinco De Mayo!  We had tacos for dinner, and (of course) used our home canned salsa.  I love mexican food.  Yeah, yeah, I know, what we call mexican is an americanized version of their authentic cuisine.  Oh, well, I like it anyway.

The weather today was absolutely beautiful!  The temperature here reached 75,  well above the normal average temperature for this time of year here, about mid 60's.  The sun was shining all day, nice occaisional breeze, but not too windy.  I got quite a bit of cleanup, weeding, arranging, rearranging, etc. done.  In other words,  I did a lot of "puttering".  I would have done a few more indepth chores, but I was locked out of the garage.  Hubby has recently replaced the lock, and hasn't gotten around to getting a 2nd key made yet, and he forgot to unlock it for me before he left for work.  So, I couldn't get to my tools and implements, until he got home.  By then, it was time for dinner.  I hope he remembers to get that key made soon. 

After dinner, we lit a fire in the chimenia, and toasted marshmallows.  And watched the bats come out.  We are considering getting a bat house and hanging it on the back wall of the garage, closest to the garden.  But how do you get them to move in? I don't want just another place for the wasps to nest!

My neighbor has a pair of mallard ducks taking advantage of her swimming pool.  I doubt that they have their nest in her yard, though, because she has a couple of dogs.  Actually, she just brought a new puppy home yesterday.  Its a teensy tiny little "tea cup" poodle.  I've seen bigger kittens.  She had the puppy all dolled up in a pink dress with a bow on the back.  It was so cute!

The weather forcast is for a nice morning, maybe afternoon showers.  So I had better get up early (and hope hubby unlocks the garage) if I want to get much done outside tomorrow.  Hubby has been working on moving our compost  area to the side of the garden instead of the back.  The neighbors have a pine tree that shades a spot along the side, and the back gets more sun, so if we move the compost area to the shady spot, I think we will be making better use of our garden space. 

I need to clean up some bird houses.  It seems those pesky paper wasps have made nests in some of them.  I plan to submerge them in a bucket of water to drown them.  (Hey! It's a better option than poison! I think?) And I plan to wear lots of insect repellant before I attempt to go near them.  How in the world am I going to keep the wasps away from my birdhouses? Ideas, anyone?