Spidy -EEK!

I was having my morning coffee and reading the newspaper on the patio this morning when I saw this little beauty out of the corner of my eye.

I am  believer in insect spray in MY domain....not sure if this one died from the really good insect spray or I simply drowned it!

Larry's Big Toy

How about this?  Lots of hard work - but no injuries to unload and assemble this little puppy in the RV Barn!

Good thing he is finished because we are having a change in the weather - increased humidity!

More July!

Settling in...really loving this dry heat!

The bugs are different...haven't a clue what this is, but I'm glad he just stopped by for a drink and flew off!

Had a little rain...took photos of the puddles for future fixing!

Can't live in the land of pickups without having one (again).  Larry made an excellent choice!

And the sewing room is coming together!  I picked up an 8 ft. x 35 inch table today to go with the furniture I ordered.  We had to take the top off of the table to get it into the house and the sewing room!  I'll need some shelving or cabinets for the upper walls and some shelving in the closets too.  Now I just need to organize everything.
This photo is of the table base - sans top!  Look at all the storage space I have on the shelf underneath!  The grand plan is to have enough storage so that I don't have to move anything to get to something else!

 Isn't that the coolest lime green chair?

July Doings

We have been in Pahrump for almost a month....learning to adapt to high daylight temperatures.  The house has great A/C - and is well insulated so the A/C doesn't run all the time.

The patio now has furniture....and a misting system.  Next step will be the overhead fans to help distribute the mist.

Ray & Charlotte's apple trees are nearing harvest...with great benefits.  Here is an lovely (and tasty) apple pie made by Charlotte:

With a gift of several pounds of Golden Delicious apples I made this tart today.  A little different for me because it doesn't have that lovely sweet cream filling.  This one has applesauce made from the fresh apples:

We were gifted with a visit from Steve & Jo over the July 4th weekend..a very pleasant surprise.  Can't wait for them to return when we have more time to explore.

 Steve - icing his hand (that turned out only to be sprained) that looked like it was very painful and Shadow at his feet.

 Ray and Jo.  Ray was the head BBQ chef for those lovely steaks.

 Charlotte enjoying the standing mister.

How is this for decadence? Lovely rib-eyes!

The house and garages are coming together.  A few more pieces of furniture for my craft room and I will be ready to start sewing again.