Bless Your Heart

Wow, you’d think a Tuesday would be just another regular day right? No. First of all I forgot to show you the cutest tea pot that Lisa sent me for my birthday. It arrived on Saturday and I just love the way it looks in my lime green kitchen! Y’all know by now to click on all photos to enlarge. On the Flickr page you can click “All Sizes” to see the really big ones. OK so most of today was normal except CSP had to work 3rd shift tonight so his sleep schedule (and therefore mine) is all screwy. I spent a good part of the day painting on Monday. I’m forcing myself to finish painting all the neutral color downstairs before starting on the fun lilac 1/2 bath and raspberry dining room.
So Jon headed off to work then about 11:30pm my phone rang. Candice’s husband Devin was driving to work when some punk rear ended him while he was slowing down to turn. It totaled his car. I went next door while C went to pick up D and take him to the hospital. He’s alright, just sore. Thank goodness.
I got home around 2:30am Tuesday and opened the back door to let the pugs out. Some crazy flying creature came screeching into my house over my head. I didn’t see what it was. The pugs did their business then we came back inside. I could hear the creature making odd noises but couldn’t see it. It had gone up to the top of my kitchen cabinet and since we have crown molding on them it forms a lip that I can’t see over. I went to bed with one eye open, hoping I wouldn’t get pecked or stung to death in my sleep.
Jon came home around 9am and saw the creature on the kitchen counter. It was a cicada. Whew. Those don’t kill you.
I woke up and found the little guy stuck in the drain of the kitchen sink. I held him with my right hand and tried to take a couple pics with my left. Here’s his underbelly: This one you can see his wings:
He was still alive (thankfully) so I took him outside to release him. I put him on the ground where he just spun on his head. So I picked him back up and put him on a fence post. He flew away home I’m thinking. No idea why I’ve been targeted by insects & reptiles over the last few days (grasshopper, praying mantis, snake, frog in my mom’s pool filter that climbs all over me when we swim there, and now this guy), but I’m glad I can help.
So then Jon woke up from sleeping in the closet (it’s darker and cooler) and came downstairs. A thunderstorm was brewing so we went out and watched it from the back porch. I took some cute photos of Miss Molly and you can really see her bald spots in a couple. Molly snuck some of her Dad’s beer:
Kiki was too scared of the thunder to come out. I love the look on Molly’s face in this one, she’s like Mom! Stop. Taking. Pictures! Looks like Molly’s a light weight.
On an unrelated note I’ve been organizing and backing up my photos. I’m approaching 7000 on my Mac so we bought an external hard drive and that’s working fabulously. I’m also in the process of saving them all to discs and putting the discs in a cd holder organized by date. This is a long and boring process. But our last computer died and took all my photos to the grave. Damn you G@teway! The only ones I still have are the ones I uploaded to sites like Snapfish etc. This was before I was a Flickr girl. Candice wanted to see pics of the house we sold last year so I put them in a set on Flickr. If you’re interested you can go here
to see them. C’s interested in going to IKEA for her first time so I tagged all the IKEA stuff I could see in the pics. It’s a lot. Who knew?