The fruit of the spirit is joy-and a little comedy is good, too.

Sometimes life is a comedy.  I was sitting on the back porch/patio enjoying  the quietness of the day and all of a sudden a ruckus broke out and I wound up laughing myself silly.  A bad, bushy tailed squirrel got into trouble with a catbird.  The catbird chased the little varmint across the yard and up the plum tree where it clung for dear life.  Catbird flew into the plum tree and found a watchful perch.  The  squirrel, thinking it was safe, came out of the plum tree and started across the yard.  Ha! says the Catbird!  That bird chased the squirrel across the yard and up into the pear tree.  Both were trying to outwit and out wait the other.  I suspect the squirrel was trying to raid a nest and got caught.  However, it made my day.  Sometimes nature can be violent and unpredictable, but sometimes the workings of the world are wondrous, if not entertaining.

The past few days have been hot and humid with today's temperature zipping up to 94, a little warm around the edges.  I am watering my plants every evening due to this local drought.  We are supposed to get rain tomorrow, but they keep saying that.

Tonight I put eggshells, coffee grounds and tea leaves, mixed with a small amount of Epsom's Salts around some of the plants.  I have one small tomato so far.  Something has pulled two pepper plants up  and just left them to die in the heat.  I suspect that it was that bad squirrel, but I'm not sure.  I think that I will pulverize an onion and make a juice to pour around the plants.

Even though I didn't need gas I topped off the gas tank this afternoon while it was $3.34 a gallon.  It won't stay that way for long, but at least I won't need to get gas for a little bit.

I went back to the store looking for more canned peaches that were on sale for $1.00 per 29 oz. can, but they were all cleaned out.  I didn't get much else other than two packages of lunch meat and some turkey bacon.  I did get some candy for the residents at the nursing home that I will take over tomorrow.  So even though I have cut back on my posting there just isn't a lot going on.

I had moved the refrigerator out a week ago or so and couldn't move it back into place.  I finally got it back into place last night, but I thought I was gonna pop all the pins, plates, and screws in my arm.  They must be in place pretty good. but I can't say that my arm doesn't hurt today.  I got to stop doing that kind of stuff!

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IN THE BEGINNING

WAS THE WORD,

AND THE WORD

WAS WITH GOD;

AND THE WORD

WAS GOD.

HE WAS IN THE

BEGINNING

WITH GOD.

ALL THINGS

WERE MADE

THROUGH HIM

AND WITHOUT HIM

WAS MADE NOTHING

THAT WAS MADE.

John 1: 1-3

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