Summertime heat has finally reached Tennessee. Today we hit 90 degrees which makes working out in the yard miserable. My husband and I have been working on various projects outside. The extreme heat really drains you and at the end of the day we've been exhausted.

I Set Up My Old Pool The Other Day

I got this pool back in 2016 when I was pregnant to help me survive gaining so much weight. Now, I'm using it to lose weight. I gained 50 pounds when I got pregnant and I'm struggling to lose it. Since we've been working outside a lot I figured I'd fix the pool so we could jump in and cool off really quick.

Building A Duck House and Pen

The big project we are working on now is the duck coop. We dug up a trench which will contain chicken wire and a board over it as part of the predator proofing (pictures another day). We also put down some cement to building what is the floor of the duck's house. I figured concrete wouldn't rot and would be easier to clean. The dirt here is hard to dig in and at some points you hit rock. Building our duck house has been a lot harder than I thought it would be.

Look At Those Little Bitty Green Beans

My garden is also doing well. My husband and I are still working hard in our gardens. These little green beans will be our first big harvest. I've got tons of beans growing right now. I planted three different colored beans (purple, yellow, and green). I'm not sure which plants are which so it'll be fun seeing which colors of beans I'll get. The heat means everything dries out quickly in my container garden. I'm doing two waterings a day.

Protection While Snake Hunting

Our other endeavor is we've got a snake living under our house. We have a small room under our house where a snake has decided to move in. We need to go under the house to deal with some plumbing tasks and to run a new cord for our internet. I'm not going down there with a snake living there. My husband found two sets of snake skin that it must have shed. My husband has seen it several times but he's terrified of snakes so he usually hightails it out of there at a sighting.

I'm pretty sure it's a common, non-poisonous rat snake. That means I really don't need to carry my machete around but it's a really cool machete. Makes me feel a tad better when I'm working around the area where the snake lives. My husband is trying to figure out how to catch it so we can release it elsewhere.

Anyways, life is busy and at night I'm so tired I haven't been around much. Things around here are slow anyways. I'm seeing a lot of my favorite friends taking downtime as well. Hopefully we can finish this duck coop soon and I won't have to sweat it out in the yard as much.