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| My braided onions hanging on the indoor clothes lines. |
Wednesday 7/30. Despite the heat, we really needed to get some work done outside. So right after breakfast we drove Miss Kitty down our road to snip bushes and branches that were encroaching on the road. Drove very slowly with rest stops for the dogs on the way back up as it was getting hot. I got out and walked the last 1/3 mile with Jesse while JB drove on home as he was obviously feeling the heat. Hot and dusty but with a light breeze. Needless to say, it was time for a shower when I got back home.
JB got the card out of the game cam on the way back up. There were lots of deer with a few bucks and one doe with a spotted fawn. There was also a rather large cougar.
The little frog was back in the dogs' water bowl. It is so cute how he just clings to the side of the bowl lowering himself down into the water then back up, over and over again.
JB got the bird book out and we identified the bird I thought was a hawk. It is a prairie falcon, and JB saw a pair of them fly through the yard. The are probably Up Here since they eat other birds, and we have a lot of them.
Since the onions I pulled had been drying for a few days, I brought them in, washed them off, and braided them with string. There are directions in a book we have and they turned out quite nicely. I made two strings and hung them on our indoor clothes line to cure.
The wild fires exploded again in this hot, dry weather. We could see two big plumes to the north.
Our high for the day was 103, but mainly it was in the high 90's. This is not fun. Am starting to get cranky again. . . We sat out on the porch trying to cool off in the late evening breeze, watching the bats.
Thursday 7/31. It was 68 and clear this morning with smoke on the northern horizon. JB left at 9:30 am for Down There to pick up a computer our son had refurbished and sent to him. JB had been tracking it on line and it was delivered yesterday. He also had a few errands to run, including looking at some heavy duty weed wackers. We have decided that it would be more practical to get one of those that could also cut brush, than to replace our lawn mower, as there are many places where we cannot get into with the tractor.
There is an excellent article in Time magazine regarding hunger in America. How so many families end the month with no money for food. How so many poor neighborhoods are a nutritional desert. How millions for children get their best meal(s) at school for free, and go hungry when the schools are closed. And yet our government gives Billions of dollars in aid to other countries, without addressing the same problems in our own country. And speaking of Billions, that offer of $2 Billion for a basketball team is just obscene. I simply do not understand the priorities of greed, power and corruption. These events get all the notoriety, but thank God (literally) that there are so many good people too. With the fires in Washington, there has been an outpouring of help for the people whose homes have been lost. And there are always daily stories of goodness shared. Those are what I have to cling to.
And cling to them I do, especially in this heat since I am getting cranky again. This is just a really nasty summer.
Friday 8/1. It is 77 with a partial overcast this morning and absolutely no air movement. Yuk.
Thought for the day: Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. Edmund Burke
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