The sign looks awesome, Gary!
I tried to upload pictures of my shower knob but for some reason they didn't go. Internet has been terrible.
The dog has been moving around even more & comes in to sleep on her dog bed on my floor when she can't get in to the living room (or when she's not asleep with her face in the cat food bowls).
The weather here absolutely sucks & bc there is no insulation in the laundry room, it is boiling in there so I've been putting off doing laundry. I have a large pile to do on a day that is hopefully cooler. Heat index today got up to 111. My brother & I had to go in to town to get mail & cat litter. My mother went nuts on Amazon Prime day so there were some large heavy packages (badly beaten up, but the contents seemed ok).
We stopped to visit a friend and for some reason sat outside in his car port despite being hot as balls. I ended up being distracted by the plight of a carpenter ant. My friend's gf had fed some rice & beef stew to the dogs & 2 grains of rice fell on the ground. The ant found the larger grain & spent about 10 minutes trying to pick it up, but it was almost as large as the ant and was stuck to the ground. Then when it finally started making progress, one of the dogs noticed it, ran over, pushed the ant with her nose, and ate the rice. At which point the ant lost it's damn mind & started running around in circles trying to figure out WTF happened. The gf took pity on the ant and saw another grain of rice. She put it down right in the ant's path as it was running. At first it started to move away, but then it realized it was food. This was a slightly smaller grain that was lighter. Ant picked managed to pick it up, retraced some of it's steps, and worked it's way off the pavement to the grass where it disappeared under some leaves. In retrospect, I wish I had recorded some of it.
Can't seem to find the source of the fire ants & they have continued to bite me. Got about 3 bites on my little toe on my right foot. Still trying to figure out the best way to get rid of them without endangering my pets or getting anyone in the house sick.