Another day...

I wish I had another dollar. LOL! Not too much going on around here. We've been cleaning our house like crazy. Monday, my mom's cousin's son (what exactly does this make him to me, I wonder?), Bart, came over. We had a nice time while I helped hime with a special project.

Oh, almost forgot! We went to our house inspection on Monday afternoon. There were a couple of things that need to be fixed, but nothing major. The structural guy kept telling us what a great, solid, wonderful house we're getting. A far cry from our last inspection. I certainly didn't have the same stomach in my throat feeling this time. Funny, though I got a little nervous as I walked in. But this time, it's super excited nervous. Last time, it was "this just isn't good" nervous. I am so excited. We have just over a month. When we first started this process on this house, Sept. 15 felt like forever. Now it's already feeling close. How are we ever going to get everything packed? And we already have like 40 boxes packed. And we've taken several boxes to Goodwill. Oh my!

So I forgot to mention, we went to the Tusla Zoo on Saturday also. I was so hung up about the lines and the no gas. But to the zoo we went. I don't know if I mentioned, but it was HOT on Saturday. I mean really hot. Normally I wouldn't attend the zoo in this heat, but it was free, so we went. Chris was highly amused by the no guns signs all over the place. Especially when you go into the restaurants/gift shops. So, it's okay to have it outside, but not inside?I've been wanting to see the butterfly aviary, and we went early in the morning, so no worries, right? Ha! The heat totally zapped us, and we took a 2 hour nap between the zoo and the balloons. I got some really cool pics, though. I was a tad disappointed in the butterflies. There were way less than I expected. I think they may have lost a few. Still pretty cool, though. I'd never noticed butterflies fluttering their wings just so much. Sure, they fly, but many of the ones we saw looked more like hummingbirds, their wings were moving so fast. And, it was virtually a greenhouse, so we had the sweat rolling just from standing in there. Still, though. Pretty darn cool. I think lots of the animals were hot. I mean, it was over 100, so they were napping in the shade and not too active. Have to go back in the cooler fall or spring.

Saturday made me realize I really need a new lens for my camera. I have this fab camera and I'm using a not so fab lens. Sure, it works OK, and it was great when we first bought it, brand new, but I don't think it has image stabilization, and it's super slow moving. Chris wants to know what this is going to cost us. I told him between $100 and $2,000. He laughed at me.