Have a Happy 4th!

We will be going to a cookout tomorrow and may be bringing the Tootie home...so may be slow visiting.  IF she comes home with us, I am going to try to keep blogging but sometimes I just can't.

So have a good 4th of July!  It is past midnight and I have got to get busy and start my contribution to the cookout.

Not much happening here...

This particular day lily is blooming and blooming and blooming!  It is funny how a person changes...I did not used to care much for them and just over the past few years, I have grown to love them.

The coneflowers are doing wonderful...not seeing very many insects on them, though.

We had temps in the 70's today!  And the humidity was not bad...and tomorrow is supposed to be more of the same.   This evening I was trying to sit outside to finish reading a book, and it actually got so cool that I had to come inside.

I did finally finish the book....The Thin Black Line.  About a boy leaving to go to the Klondike gold rush.  He meets and makes friends on the steamship on the way there.  I am not going to go into details.  But will say for some reason it was just a strange book...it is fiction and just never did really ring true to me.  So not recommending it, but if anyone else reads it or has read it, I would love to hear someone else's views on it.

A bit of this and that....

I don't feed the birds in the summer...but I wanted to use up all the bird food we have left so went to get the feeder down the other day.  As I was getting it down, I noticed a wasp.  Just as I got it down, the thought struck me that I bet there was a nest.  I gently held the feeder away from me and turned it till I could see around the outside perimeter.  Nothing.

I held it out from me and gently raised the roof...there they were!  I threw the thing down too quick to talk about.  I could tell from their looks they were ready to find out what the heck was happening to them.  They swarmed out of it and flew all around the sunflowers..and the other feeder.  I was standing back a few feet and the paid no attention to me.

I came in to get the wasp spray.  By the time I got back out, they had almost all left the scene.  I did kill 2 or 3.  After that, I had to get a picture of this before tore it off.  I am not sure if they have taken up residence again...for a day or two, I saw them come back to the feeder but haven't seen one for days.
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I have been doing a bit of this and that...trying to figure out how to declutter my life.  Seems like even my mind is cluttered.  And I spent at least an hour or two this evening going through my favorites...I had bookmarks I had  not looked at in years.  I had doubles of some.  I had some that were no longer good, even though they had been places I used to visit all the time.

So I rearranged, deleted, put in folders...if only life were that simple.  My house is so full of stuff, that I don't enjoy half of it.  I have books I will probably never read again, yet I just cannot part with them.  At least not yet.  I have an encylopedia set that we got when the kids were young.  I remember being so excited to get them.  And we have used them quite a bit.  But never do now...not with the internet.  So should I donate them to a charity?  Is that what you would do?