Hot 'n' muggy!

Yesterday convinced us that we needed to fix the windowscreens. March 7th - we ran the AC all day, and 1/2 the night because we couldn't open any windows since all of the screens have wholes in them. Whew, it was hot! And today is little better. Both Reggie and Kate are in tanks and shorts AND they're sweating. I'm making sure that they are drinking plenty of fluids, and I've learned how to repair windowscreens!

I'm quite a dandy at it now. I have plenty of work to do. I fixed the kitchen screen yesterday and today I fixed the screens in the front windows of the house. I just finished about 1/2 an hour ago, and with the fans going, the house is cooling down nicely. Hopefully, I won't have to run the AC today.

I thought you all might be interested to know that the pictures are courtesy of Kate. I gave her the camera today and just let her take pictures and in the next post, I'll add some of the pics she took of Reagan and Georgie.

Well, we had to pull apart an entire wall this weekend. The exterior siding of the bathroom wall was all rotted away, so we had to do some serious demolition work. Hopefully, Tanner and I will be able to fix some of the framing, and then get the wall sealed up again before the end of the week.

After that, I think we will begin residing the house. We know it will go slowly because we plan to reside a small section at a time and then pause whenever we reach a window so that we can replace it and then continue siding. It's not as efficient, let's say as replacing all of the windows, but we're heading into Texas spring and we've been warned quite a few times to remember to keep the house sealed up while we're working on it, or we'll have hornets and red wasps trying to make their homes inside the house.

Along a similar line, we were happy to discover that the HUGE, MAMMOTH, 4INCH cockroaches are not normally found here in Texas. We read that the largest a cockroach usually gets here is about 1-2 inches, and the most commonly found ones are even smaller than that. I guess this house had been unoccupied for so long that the mamma roaches were able to grow to ridiculously large sizes. I feel much better about that issue.

Unfortunately, we saw a red-wasp that looked to be almost 6 inches long, head to tail. Yes, 6 inches. Tanner tried to get a picture of it on his camera, but wasn't able to. Most of the red wasps I've seen have only been slightly larger than a normal wasp, but this one was gargantuan. We discovered geckos living under the siding of the girls' room. Kate thinks that they are cute. Reagan lives in dread of the "ouchy" bugs ever since she stepped into a fire ants nest. We've sprinkled fire ant poison all over the backyard and found 4 nests. So, the girls have been confined to the house for the past week unless they play on the patio right outside our door.

Tanner and I are getting ready to CLEP History I. We're just drilling each other on things like: what does Article IV of the Constitution say? or which ammendment secures the freedom of assmebly? Hopefully, we'll be able to take the test either right before or right after spring break, and then it's on to studying History II.