Lazy Sunday.

 Lazy Sunday.

 

Ok, Jennifer gave me a tool that digs bad sticker weeds up by the roots. Poke it over the middle of the plant and step on the little lever. It WORKS!! The only problem is that one has to actually get out there and DO it! Sigh. Putting the weeds in a bucket and dumping them is the easiest part. Getting out there and poking the middle of the weed and stooping over to pick them up is the hard part. Sheer laziness not to get it done while the ground is semi-soft.

 

Patty just called me to tell me that Cody the insulation man came to her house to pick up the beeper he left at her house. Meanwhile, he killed a cottonmouth at the end of our road! Scary! The lake is drying up and the snakes are moving! Just SO glad he killed it. Tony Zupkus has always said that we don’t have any venomous snakes out here. The problem with that idea is that a girl who used to ride horses with me ended up in the hospital from being bitten by a water moccasin out here on the lake. Duh. Yes, we have innumerable water snakes that are just snakes and not harmful, but don’t try to tell me we don’t have venomous snakes on this lake!

 

Sterling was going to try to keep a shirt on his body long enough for them to go to church today. He can’t use his guitar because the strap goes on his shoulder, but he was just looking forward to being able to go to church. Those folks have been so very good to him and Jacqui. The couples have been bringing them casseroles and all sorts of good things to eat. Sterling can cook, but Jacqui still is not allowed to pick anything up with her right hand even though she is working it, soaking it, and otherwise trying to get the fingers to move like they’re supposed to move. Carpal tunnel is bad enough, but to have the joints on three fingers repaired at the same time has to be pretty painful.

 

Sterling has been staying out in his shop where it is warmer than inside the house. Jacqui has to be cool and the cold hurts the shingles for some reason. So, he tries to stay busy in the shop making little rocking chairs, benches, and assorted things folks ask for. The boss at the lumber yard wanted him to make a twelve-foot table for his house. He said they had one eight foot long, but it was not big enough for the entire family to get around. The one Sterling made is so heavy that he can’t lift it without a chain hoist. So somehow, he used that and got it loaded on a 16-foot trailer to haul to the lumber yard on Monday. Simply can’t imagine a kitchen or dining room big enough for that sucker!

 

Guess the old woman will put on some decent shoes and socks and go poke khaki weeds out front to try to eliminate those suckers. Still have about twenty stubs from sunflower plants that need to be dug out so the dogs won’t hurt their feet. Have to wear some heavy gloves to pull them up and out because the stalks have tiny little stickers all over them. Those things really irritate and hurt my hands. As lovely as sunflowers are, they do leave behind a terrible stalk.

 

Well, so far, the only accomplishment is defrosting a chicken, repotting three gerbenas, and talking with my brother on the phone. At least he and Jacqui were able to go to church today.

 

Guess the eggs need to be picked up now. Not much else going on since it is getting sweat-hot out there. The sticker weeds may have to wait until later today or earlier in the morning. Just praise God for cooler weather and praying for those along the upper East Coast where the wind is blowing and the rain is coming down in buckets. And Lord, we know those folks in Libya might not like us very much, but please give them respite from the horrors of those dams that broke and wiped out thousands of people who will never even be found again. May we be forgiven as individuals and as a nation. And may we be led to you.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.