Bail! Bail!

Woke up this morning around 4:45, and was alone.  No dog.  No husband. 

I could hear the dog running around somewhere, and then she was barking.  So I got up, and the basement door was open.  Then I realized it was raining, which meant the basement was flooded. It's a regular occurrence as of late.  We do now own a sump pump that works great - it's just this morning it was raining so much it couldn't keep up. 

And Joseph was there, in his shorts, no shoes, bailing water so it would say away from the washer and dryer. 

When I went down at 7:45 to get some clean clothes, the water had gone down but the sump pump was still running full blast - 2 hours later!!! We got a lot of rain last night.

Good for the garden, bad for people with 60 year old houses.  We are looking at our options to get the problem fixed, and when we come up with something I'll let you know.  Right now its strapping a life vest to Dixie and calling it her watering hole :)

Happy Happenings

We have had a lot going on lately here at the Seger home.  Right now I can here the saw running on the porch as Joseph finishes up the trim on the island.  

Where to start?  Well, we went to camp.  And then we came back.  And then Daddy and Mommy came to visit.  And then they left.  And then we had VBS.  And then it was over.  And we had an anniversary.  

For our 2nd we went to Lexington for the weekend  to stay at the Double tree where we spent our second night at married people.  First stop this time was the Makers Mark Distillery.

Here they are dipping the bottles in hot wax.

They hand dip every bottle.  And every bottle of Makers Mark Bourbon comes out of this one factory, off of one of two lines.

All the buildings were just cute as a button!

Here is my husband standing near the barrels. I am so lucky to have him.

And now.....The kitchen......

Please don't be alarmed at the condition of the island.  All the drawers are sitting out on top of the island, and the sight it alarming!!!!

Ta-Da!  Pay no attention to the man with the nail gun!  I love the dark counter tops, and Joseph did a great job picking out the the stain and matching it to the existing cupboards.  I'm really happy for the outcome!

Here is the new stove!  It actually tells you what the temperature is and holds it!  And the dials have numbers on them!

Dishwasher!  Oh Happy Day!

Here is my new sink.  Yes I got rid of the porcelain one.  Yes I actually do like the stainless steel sink.

The stripes are done.  They do need a little touching up, but I think they turned out great!  It will be a great craft room if I can ever get rid of all the craft stuff so I can use it!

New Look....Again

Well I gave the blog a new look again.  And I like this one. I like that the sun is so bright.  Sometimes I feel like the sun is so bright I can't see.  Its like looking into this blog.

Well, we're back from camp.  And my mommy and daddy are here.  And the kitchen is coming along great.  I don't have the motivation to take pictures today, maybe tomorrow.

Hope you like the new look!

I'm at Camp!

Hey everyone,

I'm at church camp with my  Sr. High Youth Group from Shiloh. You can follow our trip over on the church's blog www.shilohchurch.blogspot.com :)

Jennifer

.....How does your garden grow?

I've been wanting to update you on my garden for some time now.  I am just a little embarrassed about the condition of it.  Danita and I had been weeding it for what seemed like every night of our life and it was looking pretty good.  Then it rained every evening this week, and was HOT HOT HOT!  So the weeds have kinda gotten away from me.  Please don't judge my gardening skills before you remember the following:  

1. It rained every day last week

2. My house is under construction

3. This was a patch of grass 3 months ago.

Here is the corn.  We are using the no till method.  

OH Hey Dixie :)

Squash.  These guys are huge.

Peas.  Never done these befoer, so I'm not sure what they should look like, but I did see one was flowering last night so I think we are good.

Cucumbers.  We planted two types, and one came up good, one didn't.  Then I replanted the one that didn't and it looks awesome now.  There was one little pickle on there this week!

Cabbage - coming along nicely.  Something was eating them, but I think I got it under control now.

Tomatoes!  We bought these really small plants at this little greenhouse in Alfordsville.  And now they are huge!  So big they keep tipping over their cages.  We are going to have a bumper crop this year.  I can't wait to try to make tomato juice.  

Marigolds.  For some reason, these things grow like crazy.  Maybe its all the miracle grow I keep putting on the garden.  

And here's my eggplant.  So amazing.  I was so happy to see these little guys.  I can't wait for Danita to teach me how to make Eggplant Parm :)

Thats all for tonight friends.  Hopefully we can work on the weeds this week, but the weather is saying its going to be high 90's all week......I just love S.Indiana :)

You and Me Going Fishing in the Dark.....

Another new Southern Indiana adventure for me last night.  We did a little thing I like to call Frog Gigging.  I have never had frog legs, so there was a chance I wouldn't like them, but I am willing to try most things once.

So at dark last night, Joe, Jonathan and myself headed out to a local watering hole that they know of armed with a fish basket, a little tiny pitchfork (which they boys informed me was called a Gig.  Actually they said, STOP calling it a PITCHFORK, its a GIG!), two mag lights and a little bit of hope. The first frog we saw, Jonathan got a 'bead' on its head, Joe told me to stand really still and keep my light on his eyes.  Apparently thats the key to this game - blinding the frog.

Here I am with my flashlight on this frog, trying to stand still, while my husband creeps around behind the frog with the Pitchfork gig and stabs this poor defenseless creature in the back of the head.  All together we got 9 on the night.

This is the thing:  I stabbed a frog last night.  And I really didn't have as big a problem with it as I thought I would.  Now we are ready to move on to bigger creatures - turtles, squirrels, deer.....by the end of the year I might be hunting bear....you just don't know about me.

On another note, Happy Fathers Day to my Daddy :)

Things are a change'n

I could probaby write 5 blog posts tonight if I wanted to.  Heres a photo blog of what I was up to tonight.

(Disclaimer:  I started this Blog post on Thursday but had to end it abruptly when the boys came home.  We then spent a couple of hours drinking a beer and enjoying a beautiful cool evening.

First, I came home and found these.

There is a hay field behind our house, but we moved in last fall and never saw them cut or do anything with it so I thought they might just not do anything with it.  But apparently they do.  These little guys were speckled all over the hillside behind my house.  

Here is the little farmer doing his good works.  NOTE he is doing GOOD works because of the color of his tractor.

Then I spent a bunch of time with this little girl.  My Mother-In-Law's doggie Matti is staying with us too, and when Matti is at our house Dixie doesn't get far from me.  She get jealous of Matti real easy.

Here's Matti-Moo-Moo as I like to call her.  As you can tell, she is a bit older than Dixie, and doesn't put up with her crap very well.  I put them both to bed on my bedroom floor last night and I think Dixie must have been trying to snuggle Matti because there were some loud sharp barks from the big girl.  

Then I started on my next project.  I bought a big cabinet to put in my sewing room, but the paint job on it was horrible to say the least.  Not the color, just the paint.  It still felt tacky, and it was like the roller came off on the cabinet as they were painting so it was almost textured.   So I set out to strip the paint off.  I have never used paint stripper before so I was a little nervous that I would get some on my leg and all my skin would burn off.  That didn't happen, I assure you.  Here's one of the cabinet doors before:

During the paint removal:  It just bubbled up.

And after.  It also worked on taking the stain off, but I didn't realize that right away.

I did the three doors and then felt like the fumes were getting to me a bit so I quit, took a shower so my skin wouldn't burn off and then took a walk up Beck's Hill.  This hill is behind my house where the round bales were today.  I like to check the sunset to see what it is doing (as you can probably tell from my recent posts) and I always think how I would like to climb up the hill and take a picture of the sunset.  Being a farmers daughter, I know better than to walk through someones Hay.  But tonight there was none.  It had just been bailed, so I climbed the hill.  Here is the sunset:

It wasn't near what it has been the last couple of nights, but it still had great coloring.  I wish I could add scratch and sniff to this blog because the smell of the hay was so amazing.  It still lingered this morning when I went to work, but by lunch was gone.  

This one is a little blurry, but here is my house from behind.  I had never stood on this side of the walnut trees.   It was like being on the outside of the window looking in.  Note the little black doggie.  She couldn't climb the hill with me because of her shock collar :(

When I started back I saw these:  WALNUTS!

I am not looking forward to picking all those up in the fall.  

I will leave you tonight, Sweet Reader, with  a little black doggie.  Good night friends.  

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