TICKity Blah!

Ah, the joys of living in the country.

With a couple of days of warm weather (70's),

it seemed to prompt some disgusting

critters to venture out to play.

Mix that with two little boys that like to 

kick leaves and bushes, 

play in the dirt and venture off the cleared path and 

you have the perfect makings of a tick party!

Yuk and double itchy yuk!

I would have taken pictures but just looking

at those things gives me the

heebie jeebies!

As a Mama, getting them off

as quick as possible and doing 

body scans is the only thing on my mind,

not getting the camera for show and tell.

Today, I will be investigating to see if 

there are some natural

tick repellents for man

and yard because I ain't having this!

If you have any suggestions,

DO TELL!!!

This reminds me of our late Summer/early Fall

adventures at my Grandparents lake cabin

in Minnesota, when I was a kid.

I was the lucky one that always got them.

Go figure.

So....

during my absence, I've worked on 

the fireplace only a little

(You know, because the weather).

The yard got spruced up instead with a 

straight and perfect picket fence

and the walkway arbor is now complete by

Petunia's painting hand (of course a little "green"

persuasion always helps).

Mr. FPH built a deck with

recycled material from a job

and the iron gazebo has a

new home in the yard.

The boys and I planted two

Cecil Brunner roses on opposing

sides and I cannot wait until we get some new

shoots stretching up!

These two potted roses came with us from CA

and have so patiently been waiting

to stretch their roots (eight months?!) :)

Today, we work on the fireplace since

we have a rainy day!

I was going to paint it white then

antique it but I ventured into

Perfectly Imperfect a few days ago and picked up

some chalk paint in French Linen.

Time to get to work! 

See ya soon

xo, Amber