Carnage in the Back Yard

Photos will follow soon, but we are just about to truly finish off the major work on the house. We are picking up the final piece today (a massive bookshelf) and hope to avoid major bickering while we put together yet another piece of furniture. We are wrapping things up just in time as I start work tomorrow!

One other thing we have been battling are bees and wasps. We had one bee's nest in a bag of soil, and the wasps are busy building in the carport. While I am terrified of anything that stings, I secretly love having nests because it's always hilarious how you formulate a plan to get rid of them. Case in point, our conversation on Sunday evening about bee's nest eradication started with the idea of simply rolling up the top of the bag, sealing it off, and throwing it away. Ten minutes later, it's evolved into a master scheme to sneak up to the bag, cut the top off, pour in poison, run, check back, and light on fire if necessary. (FYI: I know, I know. Honey bees' numbers are dwindling and we shouldn't have killed them all. Well, we wouldn't have if the cost of being a responsible earth citizen were reasonable... they wanted $150 to come get them!)

We still have a lot of work to do on the yard, but our priority was the interior seeing as we already have an awesome guest calendar that keeps growing and growing. We can't wait to have visitors!!