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So it’s summer now

July in the south is absolutely different than summers in the pnw. For one the humidity just adds to the heat so a lot of the time you feel like your in an oven as soon as the sun touches your skin, and no for the people thinking I’m not beautifully all over tan yet but I haven’t been really badly burnt yet but that would require more time spent in the sun and for being a born and raised PNW girl I’m not use to nor  equipped for this type of heat/sun yet….but it’s absolutely beautiful. My garden has gone absolutely nuts in a matter of weeks my tomatoes are already so tall I need to steak them down to keep them from falling over each other. I also maybe should have not planted them so close together but for a first time tomato gardener, it’s all about learning🙃

The wildlife here is still so fun to watch but I have grown incredibly irritated with the amount of deer that love our yard and even better…our flowers. I’m not able to keep up with the excessive need to devour most of my plants. Even the jasmine that I’ve googled deer won’t eat unless food is scarce….I’m not exactly sure what page Bambi is on considering we have a whole 9 acres of nothing but grass and trees but I’m not a deer so I guess I’ll never understand their thinking but would just appreciate them eating everything else but what I’ve planted. But that won’t happen, so I settled for some netting to put around my plant babies to keep them safe from those bottomless pits the deer seem to have! So stay tuned to see if I still have plants by the end of this season🫠

The food here is still fantastic, I have yet to really eat anything that didn’t have so much flavor, also never took me for being a catfish girlie but I am 100% a fried catfish fan🐈🤌🏻 Even when my mom was in town to visit for a week I took her to the fish n pig for her to sample some hush puppies and catfish to no shock there she approved so they just got the food figured out here.

The coffee on the other hand….its rare, the good coffee is rare. The only place we have found that has that coffee that when you take that first sip you wanna cry type happiness is about 45 mins from the house but it is absolutely worth the drive. Funny thing is the owner of said shop came from Washington herself so that would explain why it’s so tasty! So I don’t have my special coffees everyday and have to result in at home coffees a lot which just isn’t the same but can’t have you coffee and drink it too right? 😆

The bug situation isn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be, tho when you are inside 27/4 enjoying the ac bugs don’t really come inside so that may be why I haven’t seen as many..no signs of cicadas either but I think we just got super lucky this time and waiting for my time to run into the next giant inset that wants to kill me. Just like the spider that was so big I refused to kill him and just let him take my laundry room closet. As far as I was concerned it was his closet now. 

I have been in since but there is no sign of him so I’m just hoping he realized he was late for something and skedaddled so that’s what I’m telling myself but still avoiding the closet unless I absolutely need something from it. Will keep updated to if he’s gone or if he shows back up and I have to move out.  


 



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