Creature Feature:
So at night sometimes, in the middle of the night, we hear this scratching/tapping sound outside at our side door. Its scary because we're not sure what it is. At least we now know it isn't coming from our attic. Anyways we're both too chicken to open the door and find out. Theories are that its either the skunk that the neighbours told us about (my husband saw a skunk dead on the side of the road unfortunately, but maybe there are a couple around here so one is still alive?) or perhaps a neighbour cat who wants us to let it in. The other crazy thing that happened proved to not be a creature at all, but I sure thought it was one. So a few nights ago it started happening that if I put my hand in my tiny wood sorrel patch to pull some to snack on, I felt this horrid feeling which felt almost like static shocks. I thought maybe a mystery insect had taken up residence in there and was beating its wings or kicking me with its lil' feet angrily and it was scary and I could hear a sound almost like a quiet tiny clicking grasshopper. And when I watered it didn't help. So I had my husband look in the daylight and do some quick research, turns out its the plant itself! The tiny seed pods pop when touched and throw seeds out. Isn't that interesting? My other patch of "sour clover" doesn't do that, so maybe different types of sorrel are just different.
We got a bigger barbecue/smoker, at huge discount by stacking bargains, price was originally $200 and we spent $30
)) So we'll find a new home for the little one we bought earlier this summer. We haven't tried again on smoking meat, we'll get there though.
The daylilies have taken, they're shooting up green sprouts. Cucumbers are coming along, pumpkins are doing okay though not as plentiful as I'd hoped. I think next year we're going to rent a mason bee hive to mount on the side of our house, it will help everyone in the area.
Today we went to Riverside Park on the Clackamas River, I swam and my husband sat in his camping chair with his feet in the water, his ankle hurts. Anyways we made a fun discovery, that small schools of minnows, while they won't eat the dead skin literally off of your feet like those tropical fish at spas, they will eat the dead skin off your feet if you scritch it off yourself into the water!
My husband thought that was so nifty. His feet are notorious.
Upcoming hours at my living room vintage store soft opening:
Fri. Aug. 29th 12:30pm-8pm,
Sun. Aug. 31st 6:30pm-8pm,
Tue. Sept. 2nd 12:30pm-8pm.
11714 SE Fuller Rd. Portland OR 97222, you can park vehicles in our driveway area in front of the house behind my husband's car.
