Continued Extreme Heat

   Good morning Thursday, This seems like a very long week so far-some weeks are like that.

I checked the 10 day weather forecast this morning the high humidity and close to 100 F continues for the next several days-Looks like September cooler weather will show up middle of next week sometime. The heat wouldn't be quite so bad if not for the continued high humidity here. 

I still have had hummingbirds with travelers stopping by too over the last several days so I was back up to a couple dozen. This morning so far I just have a few hummingbirds-so more have traveled on  At the woods house, which is just a hour away, the hummingbirds pretty much travel on first week in September. Here at the lake I have had lots of hummingbirds further into September . I will miss them.

   For next year I will buy another pole for four more feeders-I had lots of orioles that stayed and had youngsters this year too. I had to stop feeding seed in the fall and winter months do to ---too many squirrels at destroying the feeders and eating all the seeds-ugh. There are soooo many squirrels and chipmunks here at the lake. At the woods house they pretty much stayed out in the woods. Smiles

I finally got a full night's sleep last night. I asked for an extra nurse visit yesterday which was very helpful. I was asked to reconsider talking with a social worker-again-so I decided to let her come out on Monday. She may have some sources to help me process all this-which I think I am doing ok with, but since we have no family to help she may have ideas. I no longer feel comfortable leaving the house for errands now.

My friends that help us-and live an hour away near our woods property came out yesterday to start cleaning up the mess from the tree trimmers-I chose poorly on that tree trimmer-very bad choice on my part. The scary part is he left one of the worst dead trees-it is split and dead-and would not be good to fall on our house-our guys are trying to figure out how to get it down safely.

I met them up in town to rent a wood chipper for the day. They got all the limbs mulched so I have big piles of that now. They will be back to cut all the wood into firewood-I said they could have it for their families that heat with woodstoves or sell it.  So they will be back for that soon. I do miss heating with wood-we had the best woodstoves there at the woods house.  There is a wood stove here at the lake house but she had a major chimney fire so that would need a new insert. I do not think I am strong enough right now either to carry the wood-I do love heat from a woodstove on chilly fall days and winter. This wood stove here has a flat top so I could cook on it too-which is nice in the winter. A big pot of chili is the best.

  I needed to wash a few pillows. I was washing the last two this morning-and one of those really blew up and was messing with  my washing machine-so won't be doing that again with that pillow which I have two of. Now to figure out how to get all the water out. I washed 4 pillows and this is the only one that did that.

 I do puzzles on jigsaw planet to give my mind something different to think about-mostly snoopy and the peanuts crew haha I am doing fall themed now I was going to share one but site not letting me copy and paste.

Found this photo online Snoopy usually has me smiling

We really need rain here too-everything is getting super dry.

 Do enjoy your upcoming weekend.