T Stands for Tuesday Projects at the Lake House, Gold finches, Yellowstone

Still raining here in Missouri-but we no longer have the severe flooding as Arkansas has-prayers for all affected.

Tuesdays we gather together at our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth and share a drink related post with friends. You are most welcome to join us find link in my right hand column

We are still working at the lake house-the move is going slower than we had hoped, but we have had soooo much rain here still which continues, and our projects are getting finished-but not going as fast as we had hoped.
  Hubs has many health concerns and right now it is his heart. He had a couple tests in April, and we just had the follow up visit on May 30th. I don't understand why when his heart health is in question right now that the doctor gives us the results a month later. They gave us results over the phone but nothing of the seriousness was even mentioned; that he has a heart valve that needs repaired-he goes in for another eco something test where if the repair is simple they can fix it at that time or he will need surgery. That will happen on the 20th of this month.
  Hubs has been very tired and is too pale for sure. but of course he is doing work he shouldn't be-He is someone that always pushes forward to get the job done no matter what. I think most of our men are like this.

  Any ways I didn't help matters by banging my foot into a solid oak table a few days ago-I am sure I broke a toe or two-I took a photo but it was so awful no need to share haha
    Pretty black and blue for the whole top half of my foot and most of the toes, and very swollen. One toe bright red and crooked. It's been a week now and still hurts pretty bad-I have managed to get the kitchen tiles regrouted which has been a real chore. The grout does not want to "stick" well in many places. It looks pretty but not sure how it will hold up. I don't think the previous owners used tile grout so that's the problem. and sitting on the floor working there are many tiles broken which we had not seen-fine cracks. No way do we want to add more work for ourselves right now by re doing this floor. They used cement to stick the tiles down instead of the right product for tiling-I think that's why some have cracked.
  Most of the tiles had the grout too low and some to the top of the tile-so this job has taken me several days. Today I sealed the grout so will see if it needs another coat tomorrow. Then we can move my Grandma's Hoosier cabinet on that wall by the door-and to the left I am hoping my new rack for the cast iron pieces will fit. On that wall there is sliding glass door to another room.

   Over the weekend, Hubs called out that the goose family was swimming by-I grabbed my camera and got outdoors just in time to see most of them-the youngsters really grew since the last photo.

We found someone to cut our grass which I am happy about, they cut today.

Over the weekend I turned on the a/c as it was very humid and approaching 90 f degrees. Good thing the guys were working in the basement-as no sooner did I turn it on then they were yelling to turn it off-freon and other stuff was pouring out-ugh  We have called two a/c companies so far and no one has returned our calls-so that is something that has to get fixed and soon. We knew the unit looked old but wasn't expecting it to "blow up" when turned on. oh well rather it happen now than in the middle of summer.

Our friend surprised us with a fire ring-this was originally used for water for cattle There is no bottom-so we filled the bottom with rock and sand and need more of those triangle rocks to go around a couple times-I love it Nice and deep and safe for a fire-we will love this during autumn.

We are really enjoying sitting at that patio table for our lunch or little breaks with watermelon or other fresh fruits. I am making food for us now instead of eating out.  Really fun watching all the different boats go by. Things have calmed down sooooo much since Memorial Day weekend Allot less bugs here at the lake too-so far no ticks or chiggers like in the woods-Loving that.

Lots of these little boats-I don't know what they are called but they go fast and the younger people like to ride over the bigger boats waves-so fun to watch them.

Back in the woods-lots of goldfinches at the niger seed feeders-especially the males that are in full color now. I took this photo just as it was getting dark

For my beverage reference I made a drink similar to the recipe that Divers and Sundry shared last week.  Instead of the soda I used pink grapefruit sparkling water by Perier and a squirt of agave for a bit of sweetner.

I also wanted to share a surprise package from Yellowstone Forever-the non profit for Yellowstone Park.  For my charity giving I like to donate to conservation efforts and I love Yellowstone so much that I give to them a couple times a year. For their last fund raising event they were giving out 200 gifts-and I got one. So this was a great surprise. I loveeee the bag especially-a large canvas bag-and I love bags for my craft projects.

They also included a hat, a candle, coffee, and a bottle of fragrance that captured the essence at Yellowstone in different locations of the park-I looked it up and wow this one is selling for over $40.00 a bottle 
  This was very awesome fun mail for me

Happy T everyone!!