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September was a month of beautiful weather and it inspired me to work on the outside of the house. The north side tends to get different kinds of fungus clinging to it. I spent many days bringing in the plants from the screened in porch back into the house and then gave it a good cleaning. I washed the top of the ceiling and walls with a scrub brush and broom dangling on the ladder to reach as high as I could. Then I cleaned the carpet out there. Boomer thought it was so clean that he ran through one of the screen walls to go see the neighbors just like his grandpa Bud did a few years back. Next I moved onto the siding on the back side of the house, scrubbing with a soap/bleach mixture and dangling and stretching from a ladder again. While attacking this job I found a huge underground nest of wasps that got really excited when I was cleaning near their nest. It took 3 cans of wasp spray to kill the nest. When that was done I set my sights on the deck - planning a good cleaning and then painting it. Zack asked his mom & dad if I could use their power washer and Rob brought it over and took Zack out to see a Zombie flick at the movies. That made cleaning the deck not only easier but fun. We decided to paint it grey to match the house and it took 2 coats to cover it.

While all this outside fun was going on my foot was getting very sore. And after the final day of painting I knew it was time to go to the doctor. He said I have a stress fracture in one of my metatarsals (foot bone behind my little toe)and a sprained Achilles tendon. So now I walk around like big foot.


The 4 Runner had it's first accident. Someone in the ITT parking lot backed into it while Bob was driving down the lane looking for a spot. Their car was pretty beat up by this and the 4 Runner just mainly scratched. It's been to the body shop and is now as good as new.




I escorted these two guys from our basement back to the great outdoors. I'm surprised we never found Zack trapped in a big web while he was sleeping down there.





Here is what our deck looks like post painting and the peace rose having it's finally glory for the season.