Wonderful Coolness!

 Wonderful Coolness!

 

My brother in Northwest Arkansas called and said it was a rainy, misty, miserable 48 degrees where he is. Has a fire in his wood burning stove out in the shop probably. Told him we had 104 yesterday afternoon and currently 72. Celebrating the cool air, breeze (not gale for a change), and lack of burning sunshine. Even the smoke from the fires is not necessarily discernable right now. Still have fires, but just the coolness here makes a big difference in my attitude!

 

In mixing up dogfood today, it suddenly dawned on me why my right pointy finger hurts. How does a chef never have sore fingers? Why, he has a sous chef to do all the cutting up and tiny little cuts for things that have to be just so so. Made sure to use my entire hand after it hurt the first time, so now my palm may be sore, but at least the pointy finger does not hurt as much. Put three-gallon bags of food in the fridge, so now it will be next week before something else has to be cooked and ground up. Mixed with Purina One Lamb and brown rice dog food, this stuff is probably the best they have had in their lives. They won’t even eat the expensive dog food. Think Jennifer will have to feed it to her dogs. They like that stuff.

 

Need to either get an accordion type hair band or get a haircut. These bangs get in my eyes and drive me wild. Of course, it does not take much to get to me. Wore my hair long for years, but it grows so quickly that it has to be cut often when worn short. Expensive to wear it short for that reason. But oh! is it ever cooler!

 

Looking over the top of the computer to the side lot and watching the pretty hens out there eating whatever it is they have found to eat. They fill up their craws on grasses and bugs or whatever. It seems to me that they are happy hens. A pair of hawks have been sitting on the electric poles watching them in the mornings, but so far neither one has offered to fly at the girls. Have a feeling the hawk would get the rear end of the deal. Those girls are heavy! And, they stick together!

 

Patty called to brag about her rabbit chasers. She said that Roxie saw a bunny outside the gate and sped over to bark at it. Then Ruddy jumped off the porch to go chase one out of the yard right past the place Roxie had been standing. To me that is pretty funny, and apparently it made Patty laugh as well. Mighty hunters!

 

Went to bed last night wondering if the water was turned off in the front yard. Looked this morning and patted myself on the back. Someone actually remembered to turn it off after watering the little peach tree. Everything out there needs water right now, but don’t want to use too much water when we have no idea if we will be in drought now or not. Can almost bet we won’t get the rain we need since we are already so far behind on the amount of rain we normally get. But at least it is not snowing. Have to sit here and just giggle about the stuff coming down in some places. Hello! We could even use snow if it meant saving the pastures, but it would kill all the gardens—tomatoes, peppers, and assorted veggies. Should have gotten off my backside and made it down to the farmers’ market this morning. Hardly ever go, but really feel that we should all be supporting local farmers.

 

Sprayed the bathroom floor around the edges this morning. Some kind of little black bugs come inside each year to make me feel as if the outdoors is coming indoors. Despise these little critters. The spiders bother me a bit, but these bugs have no respect at all. Usually they are dead by the time they get past the doorway from outside, but now that more spray is down in that area, maybe they won’t keep coming inside.

 

Have got to either teach the dogs to stay out of my recliner or put something in it to keep them out—or both. It’s leather and looks pretty good right now, but it’s ten years old or so. Leather does well most of the time, but dogs are just not good for seats and places they put their feet. Maybe a good leather polishing might help keep them out. Let ‘em slide out a few times!

 

Watching the trees sway in this wind. It has not been all that bad today, but it is definitely brisk. Hope it is not hampering the firefighters. We just need to pray for rain—not just for Texas and New Mexico, but for the entire nation in areas that are so terribly dry. Only God can take care of our needs.

 

Remember those who mourn, those who are ill, those who are being terrorized by racists and idiots. May God protect us and bless us with peace.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.