We're gonna need a bigger bucket

I picked these up between the car and the house last night.

Ok. That's a bit of an exaggeration. I did go investigate a couple of trees off that route.

BUT, just now I counted 25 pecan trees in our yard. 

Anyone have a really really good pecan pie recipe? Pecan bars? Pecan butter? Pecan anything???

Several things...

Rudy misses his daddy. Been sleeping on his pillow

The new floor, shower, and tile are in the little bath! Once this sets up, the trim and sink and toilet go in. (The blue is painter's tape.)

And, although common place in the Houston area lately, not so much here: 

 IT IS RAINING!!

And I haven't had the air conditioner on since last night. Gorgeous breeze.

I'm not MIA...

My one reader wants an update...so here it is. Carla, this is for you.

The Great Yard Cleanup

She had the equipment and outfit...

Just not the vision!

Never dull.

The Grand Princess and I awoke to survey the damage of the small but scary storm that hit last night about 8:30.

The storm made me wish we had the storm cellar spider free and clean with flashlights and drinking water and blankets. The lack of rain here in central Texas has helped create a lot of flying limbs. Fortunately, we only lost Internet power. (The tragedy of it all! No Netflix! The Grand Princess had to rely on movies we had on the iPod.)

While we were surveying the damage, the cows came back!

The GP knew these weren't the ones she had named. She started thinking of new names. But other distractions were on the agenda:

New Playdough

And we have been itching to paint the library.

I left out the glitter glue. I'd rather not think about it. It will mysteriously be missing tomorrow.

The Great Koi Rescue

We have a Koi pond here in the country. Since we moved in we have only guessed as to how many fish were in the pond. It was impossible to see more than about a quarter of an inch into the water. The owners left vague directions about the filter-it was supposedly on the west side.But the pond and fish were really low on the list of to-do priorities. 

Early last week the pump died. The Grand Princess and I "watered" the fish a couple of times a day to try to keep some circulation going. But that certainly wasn't going to keep the fish alive. So we made a trip to Home Depot for a new pump/filter and my handy dandy son-in-law led the troops to 

capture a couple dozen Koi,

 drain the slimy pond,

 refill the pond

 and release the fish into a cleaner home. 

Two of the little guys gave their lives for their buds. We were saddened by their passing. But thrilled their friends are in now safe.

OhOh

The Grand Princess spent a considerable amount of time naming all the cows in the field while we were sitting on the swing night before last.

Two big semi trailers just pulled down the ranch lane and out the gate. Hope that Rebecca and Frisco and Ally weren't on board.

Hope TGP can't tell them apart from the swing tonight.