Someone bought me the diffuser or I wouldn’t have one! It’s chargeable and I love it!
The only thing the Tera shield doesn’t repel is those stupid horse flies! And I reapply as I’m working/sweating hard. I watch the mosquitoes land then take right off! Don’t know if cedar wood or what in it but they don’t like!!
"No matter the activity, you’ll want to have TerraShield on hand to keep those pesky insects away. This effective, all-natural blend combines Citronella, Lemongrass, Thyme, Cedarwood, Geranium, and Peppermint essential oils in a sesame seed oil base that can be used as a natural mosquito repellent when applied to the skin. Also available in a 30 mL spray, TerraShield is your ideal outdoor companion."
"No matter the activity, you’ll want to have TerraShield on hand to keep those pesky insects away. This effective, all-natural blend combines Citronella, Lemongrass, Thyme, Cedarwood, Geranium, and Peppermint essential oils in a sesame seed oil base that can be used as a natural mosquito repellent when applied to the skin. Also available in a 30 mL spray, TerraShield is your ideal outdoor companion."
And after two more hours work this morning, it's done!
I rearranged the block steps so I could reach the peak of the roof.
Ta da!
It soaked up 3-4 applications of stain, that wood was thirsty.
While I had the ladder set up I attached a solar motion sensor light over the door. Since there's no power connected I'll use another solar light on the inside.
Now, as it's brutally hot outside I'm going to stay inside until suppertime.
These gnats are out morning noon & night. I needed sunscreen, too, so I got this. I just got it & today was the 1st time using it. So far so good! Now of I can just keep the wasps away from my fruity chapstick lips...
I watered & tended to flock 5am gave everyone extra fresh, cold water, & it was already hot & humid this morning. I needed a fresh change of non-sweaty clothes at 7am to go to work.
Luckily we are working mainly indoors all day with a/c, after we install a new front door.
So we had wind & hail last week & best I can figure is wind carried my 5 gal weed bucket about 30 feet & must've hit hard at that end of the garden netting, it took out 3 snow sticks (They're only flimsy fiberglass, lightweight, I use them for the netting, weave them through) & somehow ended up taking them down with netting & some of the veggie plants getting hung up in the deer netting & literally all swirled into a big ball. I had to untwist it & there was my weed bucket in the middle! No tornado reported & no damage other than tree limbs & some shingles blown off of an outbuilding, but I guess it was a squall that wanted to turn into one lol. I had some tomato plants, cucumbers & 1 squash perish, but some made it through the hail & wind & have rebounded! Yay! I have more that I had sprouted, but I'm waiting for this oppressive heat to let up a bit before I plant them. I have a Cherokee Tomato & a few others that did bounce back, a yellow squash & a zucchini. Some of the Marigolds are thriving & some are having it rough because after that hail pummeled them, some critter (squirrel probably) dug a few up that were not behind netting. Just dug them up & left them there to die in the sun. They're now replanted behind the netting, which was set up this time with additional stakes. Anyway...will get pics of the garden for ya. For now, just a few...
Romeo & his girls checking out good bugs near the wildflowers.
Black eyed Susan garden was all laying flat from wind & hail. Look at them now!
Amber loves blueberries
Can ya blame her?
Another wildflower garden in bloom.
A cool dragonfly...well, they're All cool, but check out this dude's racing stripe, bright turquoise on his tail! Lookin' good there fella.
That's a different one than what I found... I wonder which one works better. The one I found was from a company called DoTerra.
