THE AMATEUR TRAPPER

Fruit flies have taken over my kitchen!! No wonder, when I have had such an abundance of fresh fruit, but what do I do to get rid of them? I know there are many creatures that would be more annoying, more scary, more dangerous, but these little pests are really annoying. So, I go online to get some ideas of how to eradicate these pesky things. With saran over the top of the glass and with holes poked into the saran, and some soapy water and fruit peels in the glass they crawl into the glass and there they meet their doom. It is working!!! They crawl in but can't find a way out and they drown!

One person suggested they were too small to shoot. One said to eat a few and the rest would be so scared they would leave but I found this to be the easiest method of elimination. So this is your helpful hint of the day!

A DARK CLOUDY RAINY DAY!

What does one do when it is rainy and cloudy and dark? I paint! Well, almost. First I want to print a copy of a couple of photos that I took while in Wyoming last month to use as my reference. So, I go to the PC and print one. I discover that the color cartridge is low and the color just does not come out like it should so rather than put a new cartridge in I will go to the Mac and print one. What do I discover? Since we put a new hard drive in my Mac my printer is not recognized. So, after much fiddling around I decide to download a new driver for my printer on my Mac. Got that done but the output on the printer is not very good. So, I decide to do a test print. I put an old sheet of paper in the printer to do that. It gets jammed in the printer. So, I need to take the back off the printer clear the paper jam. But my light is not good so I reach for my trusty flashlight to give me some light. However, the flashlight has been left on and the batteries are dead. Boy, do I need a cup of coffee! So, my sympathetic husband makes me a coffee, complete with a granola bar! I replace the batteries, find that the printer is working, the sun has come out! I am back in the painting business once again!! However, it is almost lunch time so the painting will have to wait until another time!

A Saturday Morning Ritual

After taking a mile and a half walk and about 30 minutes of stretching and

while I am making our usual pancake breakfast, the hubby is assembling his meds for the week.

You'll notice that most of the meds are vitamins. That's what keeps this fellow going!

And.....of course, one always winds up on the white floor, which makes it almost impossible to see. Oh, well, a person has to get their exercise some way!

THE END OF A WONDERFUL WEEK

My week began with a trip to Troy, Michigan. Lita came to Sandra and Roger's home with friends and we joined them there and brought Lita home with us. My sick computer kept

Roger busy all day Monday. But, alas, by the end of the day it was up and running again.

Dinner at the Lake House Restaurant was wonderful! The food was delicious and the company was fun!

Since Lita and I have cameras which are identical, well except for the fact that she has a more dignified lens, we did lots of experimenting with photos during the week.

This is my version of the harvest moon, notice the star directly underneath the moon.Later in the week our focus was on the fall harvest. Grapes, apples and pumpkins.

It was a fun week! It just ended too quickly! I am thankful to God for the relationship I have with each of my daughters, a bit of heaven on earth.