T Stands for the End of Summer

 Hi everyone. 

Last week we had some hot summery weather in New Hampshire. It didn't feel like early September, more like July.  It made me forget it was back to school time so I was even surprised when I had to deal with school buses while out for my morning allergy shots. 

I was also preoccupied with Miss Maddie's health issues, and for those of you who don't stop by regularly, she is now home. I'm very happy she's back because for a while I worried she might not have made it through. ❤ Now the problem is keeping her relaxed so she can finish healing, but that is a WAY BETTER problem than having her at the doggie hospital. 

I live in a tourist area. With the heat and with school back in session, many places have started to close or only open on weekends. One of those places is Pop's, the hole in the wall seafood shack I tend to write about often. They close (as we regulars know) at 4 PM on Labor Day, which this year was Monday September 4.

Since they won't open again until May of 2024, the hubby and I went for dinner on the Thursday night before the long Labor Day weekend. 

By the time my husband was home from work and we drove there, it was around 6:30 (PM). We still had a 40 minute wait to order and get our food. I think a lot of people were having their last Pop's hurrah for 2023.  Since it was a Thursday night, the little park across the street was not crowded. We opted to carry our food over there and eat at a picnic table next to the lake.

We left the dogs at home because we figured that way we wouldn't have to deal with their mooching, but as soon as we sat down we had some different species of moochers waddle over.

No lobster roll this time as it was a chilly night (yes August was chilly and September became hot-crazy weather). Instead I went for fried whole clams. We also split some onion rings and cole slaw. and my husband had chicken fingers.

You can also see our drinks which we brought with us. Those are my ticket for T this week at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog.

I hadn't had fried clams all summer, and they were yummy. 

The mooch patrol waddled around the table for most of our dinner and finally headed off to wherever they would spend the night.

When the sun sets, it doesn't take long for it to get dark at this time of year. We were still finishing our dinner when dusk arrived.  By the time we returned home it was already dark and not even much past 8 PM.

That's all for me for T this week. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have not only a happy T day but week ahead also.

T Stands for The Chore List

 Hi everyone. Happy Tuesday.

Last week my husband took the week off from work, and we spent it doing a lots of chores around the house. Not the most exciting vacation, but definitely productive. Part of the week the weather wasn't really conducive to being outside, which meant we didn't quite finish the to do list.  That always seems to  happen so it wasn't really disappointing.  Of course  writing the list is usually easier than doing the list.

The area where we'll put the beehive got started. We needed to smooth out the spot. All the brush from the cut trees you can see behind my husband was taken to the dump. Now my husband needs to go back with the chainsaw and cut the trunks into movable pieces. That was one thing on the list he didn't get to do. (And they really aren't in the way, so they are low on the list.)

And Maddie, besides wanting to be in the photo, was very excited for a patch of open dirt.

I finished bark mulching.  Hurrah. Check that off the list.

We bought screen to fix a few of the panels on the screen porch, but with the rain and winds we didn't get the plastic off of it yet. That was a partial check off. 

I did drag out my planting pots from inside the screen porch where we store everything over the winter. They look pretty sad being empty of plants. In another few weeks I'll get some green in them.

You can also see our very weathered deck under the pots. The original plan for this vacation was to put down new decking, but wow, has the price of construction materials sky rocketed. We decided to it wasn't any more expensive to get the weather resistant fake wood decking compared to pressure treated wood right now.  Some of the boards we needed would have been almost $45 a board if we bought new pressure treated wood. The edging boards would have been $60 for one board. We ordered the new weather resistant plastic decking but who knows when that will arrive. Another half check.

The hubby did bring his boat home. That was probably the only thing on his list. 

I was excited to see my kale has started to come up in my cold frame. And if you look carefully at the top of the photo you can see some lettuce popping up too.   I can check off that I got those seeds planted and they are growing.

It is amazing how much more green everything became in this past week.

My peonies grew about 6 inches out of the ground.

The rose plants are all getting their leaves.

More daffodils and hyacinths are blooming.

I moved the bird feeders further from the house to try to get the chipmunks and squirrels out of my veggie garden. Check that off. You can also see the slight touch of green on the trees as leaves just start to bloom.  

And I didn't get a photo, but the hummingbirds are back! I got my food made for them and that feeder put outside too.

This being T day, I wanted to share a drink and a meal from Pop's with you, like I mentioned last week. 

Here's the photo I posted last week. Opening May 1.

Saturday evening (which was May 1) we went over to get some dinner. When we got there the parking lot was empty and the building was dark. The sign was still hanging but the May 1 was painted over.

I'm not sure you can read the new sign which was slightly blown inward, but it said they were now opening May 8.

That was disappointing. So my link this week for T is going have to be all the Coca-cola signs on Pop's building.  I guess the ICE on the ice freezer would work also.

Be sure to stop by Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog  and join us for T with your drink related post.

Hopefully next week (weather dependent) I can share a drink related post from Pop's.  If not, I will find something more exciting to share.

Have a great T day. Thanks for visiting my blog also.