A pictorial review of what we did this week

Life is busy in our household (always).

What has Paul and Debbie been doing this week:

Got away for a couple of hours and headed downtown with the top down on the Mustang to go to the Bayou City Art Festival.  It was such a gloriously beautiful day.  Perfect day to walk around and look at all kinds of interesting things.

This event is huge and there was LOTS of things to see

 

We've been dealing with a potential lawsuit from the EPA we were served with.  Complicated, but it involves a hazardous waste dump and where the company who empties our grease trap dumps.   If we don't pay.....they are threatening legal action.

 

(I would like to point out that we actually are not guilty of any of this at all and likely that 90% of the other 5000 companies they are suing.....they are just trying to collect $6 million dollars it took to clean up the site and the owner of the site has disappeared.  So now they are trying to collect from all the companies that dumped there AND all the companies that hired them to dump there.  Just another pain in the butt thing to deal with.  There is currently 600 companies in this original lawsuit and potentially 1000's more will be added if they don't pay)

We've been spending almost every single night in the hot tub.  The best part of our day!

We've also had a roofing company out this week that told us our roof did have hail damage.  So....next step is our insurance company adjuster coming out next week to verify it.  Then we will begin the process of getting a new roof on the house.

We just happened to be sitting on the front porch when it happened and got some great pictures and a video.  How's that for evidence?

 

Things that Debbie has been up to this week:

Backing up all the stuff on my old computer and putting it on my new computer.  This process has taken 3 days......and then there was the little problem with the power going out for a bit when I only had 83% of it backed up.  Just another day at the office.

Saw this seasoning mix in the grocery store the other day and was giving it a try to see if it made better meatloaf than my old "tried and true" recipe.

Verdict:  Delicioius!  Served it up with a side of loaded baked potato casserole.  We seasoned up those potatoes with some of our very own homegrown pecquin peppers.

We've had a great crop of these all summer long and the plants are still covered with at least 100 peppers.  They have such a delicious peppery and HOT HOT HOT taste!

 

I've been having to stop and clean up stupid messes (from both animal and human)

 

Last night I made some delicious beef fajita quesadillas topped with pico and guac.  Yummy!

 

Cris and I installed a new ceiling fan in the kitchen.  We've got a couple more of these to do.  I should say Cris did most of the work......I was just the helper.

 

 

 

What did Paul do this week:

 

Since all the pictures he take on his phone download to my Dropbox.....it's fun to look at what he's taking pictures of. 

 

This looks like some information he needed when he want to the hardware store to replace one of the light ballasts in the store.

He was out getting apartment maps for our drivers the other day and this new complex didn't have any......so he took a picture of their sign with the site map on it.  Very clever Paul!

Looks like he took a copy of the AC repair bill to send to the landlord.  They called us about our A/C leaking on the roof.  Always something that needs repaired around this place.

 

And lastly.......Paul's been making yummy and delicious pizzas all week.  This was our dinner the other night -- 1/2 Jerk Chicken and 1/2 Firecracker on a deep dish.