Surprises over the week

I hope you had a nice holiday weekend, ours was very quiet, no company so we bought deli food and didn't cook! (Rotisserie chicken, Southern potato salad, baked beans, slaw, watermelon, and apple pie! ) It was all delicious, we also went to Steak and Shake one night (in lieu of a cookout!)
We watched Macy's NY fireworks on TV instead of battling the traffic to see them on the beach! We are living the good life here in Florida! LOL! Even though we had an uneventful holiday weekend, we have had some excitement over the week!

My husband has been painting the trim on our house (yellow, of course!) I usually keep this wall pocket (above) on our front door filled with seasonal silk flowers. This is the way the spring flowers looked.

Hubby took the wall pocket off the door and placed it inside on the foyer floor. I planned to paint the wall pocket a new color and I wasn't in a hurry to change the flowers in it until after I got around to painting it.

We started finding wasps in our house, the total over a few days came to five. We started looking on the high shelves to see if there was a wasp nest in the house, but couldn't find anything. Last night I was sitting at my computer and looked over at the wall pocket on the floor of the foyer, and a thought came to mind! Could it be?? Yep, there was a wasp nest in the wall pocket!!! I'm so thankful I didn't decide to change those flowers, because I always have just stuck my hand in and grabbed the flowers and pulled them from the styrofoam! I could have had a hand full of wasps! Yikes! My husband very carefully pulled the flowers out, but saw no nest, then he took a stick and knocked the styrofoam out and there was the nest under the styrofoam!! I have heard of people getting bird's nests built in their door wreaths, and that would be sweet, but wasps are not welcome!!

Now I have always thought of my husband as my hero, but this just reinforced my thoughts! Wait! There's more!! Last week while he was painting outside, he would leave the garage door open. One morning while he was painting I opened the laundry room door (to the garage) and there was a five-foot brown snake in the garage!!!! I am not an adventurous woman who likes snakes and is curious about them! No, I HATE snakes, I'm terrified of snakes!! Well, to make a long story short, my hero husband chased the snake down the street with a pole. He will not kill anything (I wanted him to kill it as it was probably poisonous!) Now I am paranoid and keep thinking I see snakes everywhere! But we laugh now and joke about him walking the snake down the street like a pet! LOL!

I'm ready to get back to my uneventful retired life!

How was your holiday weekend?

Have a happy day!
God Bless.

Katherine