Bugs and Bombs......

Friday 23^rd - Well, the bombing/firing practice stopped just before midnight last night.  Fortunately it didn’t start again until about 9 this morning.  Today we are going to take it easy after traveling yesterday.  Bryan put BBQ ribs in the crockpot and I made a potato salad.  I just love the crockpot as it doesn’t heat up the RV and we don’t have to BBQ out in the heat.  If any of you have any good crockpot recipes let me know. 

Saturday 24^th – We went out food shopping today and Bryan got home in time to watch Nascar.  The bugs are spoiling this place a bit as I really don’t want to go out and get bit.  I got some vitamin B-1 tablets today as they appear to make some people immune from bites and I am willing to try anything!!!  When Bryan got back from taking CoCo for her late night walk he had seen that a lot of people had got the electronic bug zappers so we decided we will go and look at those tomorrow.

Sunday 25^th – The explosions started at 7am this morning after finishing at 11 last night.  Our neighbor told us today that they are firing rockets, which explains the multiple explosions!!  Maybe we should buy some earplugs to go with the zapper.  

 We went out and ended up buying this Stinger Bug Zapper, we will see how it does.  We also got some marigolds to put in our planter.  I read that mosquito’s don’t like the smell of these, so who knows.  Probably a waste of money but we needed something else in the planter anyway.  

Bryan watched the Saints preseason game against the Texans, which they won.  The camp host came by to tell us that they are “fogging” the lake for mosquito’s between 2am & 4am tomorrow and Wednesday so to make sure we didn’t take the dog out or go out and to shut all our vents.  As we will be in bed at that time it shouldn’t affect us and will hopefully kill off some of the bugs.
Was sad to see Las Vegas got hit with floods in the NW part of town which affected some of my friends.  Please stay safe everyone.

Monday 26^th – Firstly, Happy Happy Birthday to our eldest grandson Bailey who is 5 years old today.  It looks as though he had a great day, thanks to his mum sharing on facebook.
We were going to go to the beach today but it started to rain.  It turned out to be a couple of showers but it was enough to make us change our minds. 

The US Open tennis starts today and so I didn’t need much persuading to stay home.  Two Brits got through to the second round.  Dan Evans, a qualifier, won his match against Nishikori the # 11 seed.  Fantastic match for him.  I have been watching a few of his matches lately and he has been doing very well.  Laura Robson also won her 1^st round match.  She has been out with a wrist injury and so it was good to see her get the win.  My Andy isn’t playing until Wednesday and so I will have to wait to see him.   I’m not sure why the reigning champion doesn’t play until the third day when some players will play their second round matches then. Seems a little unfair, especially when the #7 seed Federer plays the night match on the opening day!!! Some things will never change!!   Let’s just hope it doesn’t rain and put him even further behind and having to play catch up.  Sorry, got carried away; you know me, tennis and Andy!!!!