Monday's Musings

 Happy new week!

I hope each of you had a nice Father's Day weekend.  We celebrated over grilled burgers and all the trimmings yesterday afternoon.  We topped it off with Blueberry Pound Cake. And, we celebrated these 3 Dads, my Hubby, my Daddy and our son.  Sure wish we could have celebrated our SIL as well, but a few miles exist between us and at times like these, it really stinks.  But, it is what it is and we make the best of it.
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And, the landscape is moving right along.  They actually started putting some of the plants in last week.  I cannot even imagine working as hard as these guys in this intense heat and humidity.  My goodness!  But, they are doing an amazing job and it gets prettier every day.  There is still more planting to be done, and stone and rock work and they should come close to finishing up this week.  I will show you some "up close and personal" pictures when it is completed.  Thanks for following along. ~smile~
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I put some patriotic touches out on the front porch last week.  In spite of the troubling days we are living in here in the US, it's still the grandest country in the world.  And, I like to show my love of my country whenever possible.
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And, I leave you with a chuckle............The above picture is of our spa tub in our master bath.  In the 10 months we have lived here we have used it 3 times so I haven't even thought about running the cleaning cycle on it.  I have cleaned the surface but nothing more.  Well, Saturday morning I got the manual out and decided that, even though it is seldom used, that it probably would be wise to run a cleaning cycle through it.  The manual said to add 1/2 cup of bleach and 2 teaspoons of low suds dish washing detergent.  Well, I didn't know if my dish washing detergent was low suds or not but as you can see, I found out it wasn't.  I set a timer for the 15 minutes that it was to run and left it.  I happen to go back into the bathroom for something and I saw what was happening and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.  It had about 5 minutes left of the cycle and I just decided to let it continue and hope that the suds were through growing.  But, let me tell you, I had a good time rinsing those suds out of the tub when the cycle was over.  Lesson learned!!  I will make sure I use low suds dish washing detergent next time.

Have yourself a wonderful new week!