A slow day without wheels

This weed is edible and grow everywhere!

Today is Tuesday.  I have been without my van for two whole days and it looks like I will be without it tomorrow, as well. I would really like to go to noon-time mass tomorrow, but don't know what is happening with my van.  I took it in to get the window fixed; first they dropped and broke a piece and then they put in a wrong switch.  Now they have to order the correct switch.   Really.  Men are such Dodos.

The heat wave has broken.  It was only in 90's today. The humidity has slacked off a bit, too.  That makes the 90's bearable.  Even  'though we got some rain it wasn't nearly enough.  More rain, please.

As the mid-west is in a serious drought you can expect the price of food to increase and your wallets to get thinner.  If you can stock up with canned corn or veggies, do so.  You will need them.

I am still still watering my tomatoes.  The pepper plants look like they may finally do something.  Also, I put coffee grounds, tea leaves and egg shells through the blender this afternoon and poured the concoction on the plants.  I am also thinking of planting some late radishes and maybe some late lettuce in a protected area.  I just want some more green stuff.

I took fat from my steaks  out to the birds.  They like the fat the meat residue left on bones.  Just don't hit the bones with a mower!

Because I don't have transportation and can't get out and about, I can't spend money.  That is a good thing.  Just wait 'til I get the bill for the van window!!

THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD

I SHALL NOT WANT.............

from the 23 Psalm

Not all Bibles are the same

in numbering.

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Tommy Toes want water

I got up early so that I could go to the store before the heat of the day, for the few groceries that I needed.  Even at 9 A.M. the temperature was in the low 90's.  I got what I needed and came right back to the A/C.  On the way I saw the mail carrier.  Poor fellow looked like slowly melting wax on a hot day.  It was the humidity.  I wonder how he made out for the rest of the day as it was only 9:30.  Our high temperature was 105 for the day, but with the humidity it was very uncomfortable.

I watered the tomatoes with one gallon of water and the heat sucked the moisture right out of the ground.  I went back later and watered the plants again.  The tomatoes plants have lots of blossoms and a couple of Tommy Toes.  The pepper plants are trying to do something; I don't know what.  I think they are trying to grow legs and walk to the river.

The birds are all desperate for water, too.  They are even sharing the bird bath with other species...not for long, but long enough to get a drink and splash a little.

The heat wave is supposed to end this eve. or overnight.  I hope so.  I can't even buy candy for the residents because it is melting into globs of chocolate..mush.    I guess I should be happy that I don't live in Europe where there is severe flooding and drownings.  I am thankful for that, but I wish we could just have a little bit of rain.  The fields are dry and the crops are not doing well for our local farmers

There isn't much going on here in "Downtown Kentucky" other than that they are racing the horses in this incredible heat, over at the park.   If that isn't animal abuse...I don't know what is.

So...that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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THIS IS MY COMMANDMENT:

THAT YOU SHOULD LOVE

ONE ANOTHER.

John 15: 12

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Even a little rain is welcome

Time flies and wings away:  Where did the past few days go?  Here it is Wed. already.  Well, I do know where some of the time went as I have been doing some serious cleaning and some tossing out of stuff.  I have one garbage bag full of old papers, old books, old mail and just plain old...old accumulated junk or unwanted items.  No one else would want any of it either.  However, on the bright side I did find a few things that I had forgotten about or just plain misplaced.

Tomorrow I intend to take a few things in a box to the Salvation Army or the Goodwill Store.  I can only carry so much at a time so it won't be a lot that goes per trip.  But...out it goes.  I don't want people to think I am some kind of hoarder...although I am inclined be.  I always think that I can use something later or fix an item, but never get around to it.  The other day I took a gigantic bag full of plastic bags to the S. A.  They can use the bags and I can only use so many and after that they are just more accumulation to add to the accumulation.  No accumulation needed.

It has been hot and humid all day and it finally rained a little after the temp. hit 104 this afternoon.  It wasn't a lot of rain here, but other places in the area did get some good rain.  Of course, it came right after I had hand watered my tomatoes and sweat bullets in doing so.  Gotta love Ol' Mother Nature.

No fireworks locally even if we did get a little moisture.  It is just too dry.  At least I will not find any spent fireworks in the yard and on the roof.  That always did worry me.

Otherwise, there isn't much going on.  I went to the Chinese Restaurant last eve. with some compatriots and we enjoyed someone else's cooking.  It is just to hot to cook.

Hopefully I will have enough ambition to take the van in and get the window fixed.  It rolls down well, but doesn't want to roll up.  It has been that way for several months now and I am tired of it.  Past time to get it taken care of.

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IF THE WORLD

HATES YOU,

KNOW THAT

IT HAS HATED

ME BEFORE

YOU.

IF YOU WERE

OF THE WORLD

THE WORLD

WOULD LOVE

WHAT IS

IT'S OWN.

BUT BECAUSE

YOU ARE NOT

OF THE WORLD,

BUT I HAVE

CHOSEN YOU

OUT OF THE WORLD,

THEREFORE

THE WORLD HATES

YOU.

John 5: 18-19

Anyone with a few random brain cells knows that the Church is under attack from our own government. All churches.  It seems as if the battle for your fidelity to your religion and faith has speeded up  and new and sneaky little edicts are being imposed in all kinds of ways that you are not even aware of...yet.  You will be.  This country was founded on freedom of speech and religion.  Do you still free to say what you wish without being censored?  Is your religion-faith being mocked in various ways?  Well, read between the lines, if you will.  The way to control a people is to control the media-free speech-and undermine religion. So, what comes next, I wonder...but not too loudly.

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Finished

Here is the bookcase that I have been working on.  Yes, it has taken me a long time.  You can enlarge it to see it better.  I hope you can not see all the little flaws and errors.  I am not quite done, but it is usable.  It was "work" trying to reach and stain the highest places.

Fineto

Heat, storms, droughts and rain

Everyone I know in the Ohio River Valley has been fried, toasted and crisped on both sides.  We need rain so badly, Lord, but not like the devastating storms that have hit the East Coast or the high winds that blew through the upper regions of In, Ky, Virginia and on into parts of NY and NJ.  Nope, just a nice steady rain, Lord...send it our way and we will be ever grateful.

I too, am hand watering my plants of which I don't have many, but I don't want to lose them.  I can't keep the bird bath full as it has become a popular spa for the feathered friends that inhabit the sky, trees and airways.  They also get moisture from the plums that have fallen from the tree.  I hope that I don't see the birds falling from the trees, too, due the heat wave.

I have been fairly busy all day long.  I have re-hung a lot of pictures that have been waiting silently to find thier spots on the walls.  They have been waiting, gathering dust and cob-webs, as I am doing, too.  It is way past time for them to be re-hung, and just as I suspected, it was not a fun job to do with one arm that can't reach well.  It is done and I am glad that a lot of things are now up off  the floor and/or out of boxes.  I am making progress in spite of myself, but have a ways to go.  It sure helps to de-clutter!

Yesterday I did go out for noon mass and then to Hardy's.  I came right back as fast as that van would travel and parked myself in front of the A/C.  I must be very devoted or very stupid.  I think stupid is the key word here...to be out in the heat that hit 107 yesterday.  Today was 106.

I did get to the store early this morning, beating the climbing mercury.  Everyone else had the same great inspiration as the store clerk said she didn't have time to do much other than run the register.

When I get up for church tomorrow morning it is the prelude to another day of temps over 100 degrees.  I know that when I come out of church my van will be a hot box...a prelude to you know where!!

By staying in most of the week I don't have a lot to write about.  However, by being in I stay out of trouble, too.  And that's a good thing!  One good result of having to stay in out of the heat is that you can get a lot of things done that you (me) have been putting off doing or placing on the back burner.  On Monday, I hope to get even more done.  Sunday...not so much.

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BLESSED BE

THE GOD

AND FATHER

OF OUR LORD

JESUS CHRIST,

WHO HAS BLESSED US

WITH EVERY

SPIRITUAL BLESSING

ON HIGH WITH CHRIST.

St. Paul

to the Ephesians

Ch. 1 vs. 3

If you believe you are blessed-and you are,

remember in your prayers

all thoses that are suffering

from the fires out in the west

and the drought in mid-America.

Thank you...

and don't forget the poeple

affected by rain and floods

overseas.

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Just because

Oh, was it hot today.  104 here and higher in other places.  It is supposed to hit 107 tomorrow-Friday.  We will see.

While I did not really intend to post tonight I want to expalin why I did not post the picture of the bookcase.  Blame it on Kodak.  I guess they went belly up a while back and I was not able to down load my pictures into the the computer.  There is probably a way around this and I will look for it.

I did not go to mass this lunch time due to the heat, but I think I will go tomorrow no matter what.  After all, I will be getting out of an a/c van and walking into an a/c church so it shouldn't be all that bad.

I think when the drought breaks it will be the result of some severe weather.  But..not this week. 

There isn't much going on.  The heat is keeping everyone in, even the bad boys.  I have kept most of the lights off and the blinds closed and the a/c running so I am fairly comfortable until I step out the door.  I neglected to go back out this eve. and give the plants more water.  I gave them a double dip at lunch time.

The birds of the air are really enjoying the bird bath, so much so that I have started taking reservations for the birdy spa.  Of course, the bully birds are first on the reservation list and then come the little ones, such as the Gold Finches and little Sparrows.

And that is all I will write tonight.

WHATEVER YOU DO, WORK AT IT WITH YOUR WHOLE BEING.  DO IT FOR THE LORD RATHER THAN FOR MAN, SINCE YOU KNOW FULL WELL THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE AN INHERITANCE FROM HIM AS YOUR REWARD.  BE SLAVES OF CHRIST THE LORD.

Colossians 3: 23-24

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To hot to trot

I know that I should have re-charged the batteries on the camera, but I didn't get it done as there were other things that I needed to do today. I did want to post a picture of the "bookcase" as it is "finished" and loaded with odds and ends.
I may go ahead and do that tomorrow and post it as I will be obviously staying in out of the heat.  It is predicted to be 103 degrees.
I went to 12: 05 mass today, but don't think I will be going tomorrow or Friday.  I will stay in and only go out the door as needed.  I went to the store and got milk, eggs, bread and lunch meat today while it was still "cool" in the 90's.  It isn't that I don't want to go to mass, but high heat and high b/p are like oil and water: they don't mix well.

I gave my tomato plants a double dose of H2O this evening and I may get brave and give them a drink early.  I got my hair cut today, too.  Now I won't have hair plastered to my skull and will wear a light weight crown of silver threads.

The birds are having a good time in the bird bath.  They make such a mess of it, 'though.  We are into our second month of drought and everything is so dry and brittle; it is like, and sounds as if you are walking on glass instead of grass. 

I finished another novel this evening.  I am losing count.  I do like to read, esp, in the summer when TVis so void of good programing

Very little to mention unless I tell you that gas has dropped to $3.13 per gal. and I even saw another place that had it for $3.12.  Now that gas is cheaper...it's too hot to go anywhere!

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THERE IS NOTHING

BETTER FOR MAN

THAN TO EAT AND DRINK

AND PROVIDE FOR

WITH GOOD THINGS

BY HIS LABOR.

EVEN THIS I REALIZE

IS FROM THE HAND

OF GOD.

Ecclesiastes 2: 24

Tomorrow there will be golf tournement coming out of Evansvile, Indiana, to a TV near you.  I believe it is called the Victoria Nationals.  It was once a 400 acre stripper pit that was abandoned, but turned into a golf course in 1996.  It is said to be one of the finest golf courses in the country now.

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