Cats, Crepes, and more!

Monday afternoon I had Nikki drive me to Zamzows to get some weed killer for the grass and some insect control for our trees and shrubs. While we were there we were looking around at cat and bird items since those are the two types of pets we own. We have had Sage for 4 years now and Stardust for about 7 months and neither of them had a collar. My brother Colby told us that Star would always get her collar off when they tried. Well, we decided to get collars for both cats and see how it goes so that they don't look like stray cats roaming the neighborhood. Nikki put the collars on both of them and we could tell they didn't like them very much but to our surprise and delight neither of them have taken them off yet and it is now Thursday morning. And they look even cuter than before!

Sage got a sushi collar because she loves to eat.

Stardust got a space collar because the colors went well with her. We later realized that it matches her name too, lol!

Nikki and I had gone grocery shopping last Saturday and we made sure to get some fresh fruit so we could do the crepes again. They were delicious!

I spread Nutella on the crepe and then topped it with strawberries, blueberries, and bananas.

Then folded it up and topped with blackberries and powdered sugar.

Tuesday evening I covered the playhouse windows with cut out pieces of grocery bags in preparation for applying wood sealant to the door and the door trim and it took awhile to do. While I was doing that I remembered that Jack and I needed to go to activity day boys (formerly scouts) that night and I panicked that I might have missed it already (I'm one of the leaders). Fortunately it was about 6:08 when I looked at my clock and the activity started at 7:00 pm so I had plenty of time to finish prepping the windows and then change and go. It was our first time meeting since everything was cancelled in March. We met at Sis. Nickell's house in her back yard where her yard is also connected to her neighborhood park, so there was plenty of space to social distance. The boys made a necklace with a leather piece on it that had the Roman numerals for 2060 which represented the 2060 stripling warriors (2000 to begin with and then 60 were added later), as we are doing a summer of heroes from the Book of Mormon. After making the necklace we sat around a campfire where Sis. Nickell told the story about Helaman's stripling warriors. It was great because there were a couple of boys there that didn't know the story and they were all quietly sitting and listening (and for boys ages 8-11 that's pretty awesome). There were only 6 boys though out of 16 on our list. After the story we had fun playing volleyball and ended with a little treat of mini pies, apple or cherry. When we got home Curtis had started putting up the banister on the play house.

The boys were able to stamp some of their own designs on it around the Roman numerals.

Wednesday I spent most of the day getting wood sealer put on our banister pieces so that they would be ready for Curtis by the evening because the previous night he started putting the banister up and I hadn't gotten those pieces done yet. After spraying most of the pieces out on the driveway, it ended up being a bigger mess than I thought it would. The sealant looked like watery milk so when it sprayed it used a lot of sealant and we had lots of run off. I was able to catch a lot of the run off by sticking the end of the paint cloth that was under the wood into a big black leaf bag. Any time I saw some leak onto the driveway I would try to wash it away as quickly as possible with my watering can that I use for flowers. I decided it would be a lot cleaner and easier to use brushes to apply the sealant on the door and door trim, plus the pieces that Curtis attached the previous night. And it certainly was! I poured the sealant I had caught in the black bag into a paint tray and was able to get most of it done with that. I was pretty tired by the time dinner rolled around but I was able to help Curtis make some dinner. We had kabobs again and tater tots. This time Curtis's dad came over to help with the play house and putting up the banister. They were able to get most of it done. It just needs the top part of the railing I think. Next we'll be getting ready to put up the swing set.

We're able to sit in camping chairs on the balcony and relax. It was nice sitting out there last night after they were done. We may be watching fireworks from there in July!