Ants? What ants?

It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring!  Remember that old saying for a thunderstorm?  It's raining here today but no thunder, just me snoring according to the Hubs........sigh......   We need the rain though, it's been rather dry and I have had to water everything constantly to keep things going.  The raspberries are just doing great this year, they are thick as can be, the most I have ever had since I put the bushes in a number of years ago.  Nothing like walking past the raspberry patch and grabbing a handful of those tart little goodies.  I must say though that I have never seen any as big as the ones I get at the grocery store that come from California!!!  They are HUGE!  I eat them like candy, have some sitting right here now.

The lake house is coming along beautifully!!  I am just in awe of the beautiful job they have done making a silk purse out of a sows ear!  If any of you remember the pictures of the 'flood' you know it was a complete disaster leaving nothing unscathed in its wake along with mold covering every surface.  Now it is clean and fresh, they are putting the finishing touches on the painting and the window treatments are ready to be installed.  I am trying to hold off on posting any pictures until everything is done but I am getting antsy to show you all.

Speaking of antsy or I should say ants.....Evidently we had a nest of carpenter ants living in one of the ceilings.  They must have moved out when all the commotion started as we didn't see any signs of them until last week when I guess they decided it was time to move back in!  I got a frantic call from one of the workers that there were about 200 ants milling around one of the smoke detectors trying to get into the ceiling!!!  I called an exterminator but he couldn't get there for a few days so I headed to the lake with a can of Raid in hand.

Yikes!  They weren't kidding, there were tons of flying ants and by now they had figured out they couldn't get in through the smoke detector so were all on the sliders trying to get back outside!  GAG!  I sprayed them and they dropped like flies thankfully but what a mess on my new floor!  I got it pretty well cleaned up and was waiting for the second wave to appear but I guess I got them all.  The exterminator arrived a couple days later and did the whole inside and outside so we shouldn't have a problem again but that was weird and I was not a happy camper having them in my new digs!

We've been having some nightly visitors lately that are as cute as a button but rather sloppy eaters!  There is one more behind the gas grill that you can't see.  Mom raccoon has SIX babies!  She looks a bit weary but who wouldn't having six little ones to keep track of!

Here's a shot of all of them together including Mom in the foreground.  They aren't as big as they look in these pictures.  They probably weigh about three pounds apiece at this point.  They LUV their marshmallows!

                                                  Whoops, I cut Mom's face off.

They keep us entertained each evening, they are better then television and the grandchildren love watching them out the window.

Mom and I went to Ellsworth today as I had my second laser treatment on my face.  It was pouring and there was a lot of road construction so what usually takes a half hour took us an hour.  The road was all torn up and you had to drive on the edge of the ditch which was a tiny bit unnerving.  We made it fine and I got zapped and we were out the door on our way home.  I don't have to go back for two months this time so as to give the blood vessels time to heal properly.  Hopefully one more treatment and the rosacia will be under control.  It doesn't really hurt to have the laser but afterwards you feel like you have a bad sunburn on your face and the next day you look like someone hit you with a 2X4!   I stay out of sight so that people won't think someone gave me a backhander! 

Time to get around to visiting some of you.  Time really seems to get away from me and computer time is limited this time of year so please hang in there with me!!!