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.

++++

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.

END 

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

END

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!

+++

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.

END

Little Donkeys and young colts

"I'm working at it."  In other words I am doing this post In parts and pieces, as I do other  things.  I just came in from mowing the front yard.  Before I did that I had to go get gas for the mower and was happy that gas was $3.16 per gal.  When I got home I set the lawn mower up to three inches as everything is so dry: I  didn't want to scalp  the yard.   It was only 88 degrees today so I got some outside work done.  Tomorrow it is supposed to be ...97 degrees.  I don't do that kind of intensive work on a Sunday, however if my donkey fell into a ditch I might brave the heat and try to rescue my donkey.  What, you say!  You didn't know I had a donkey?  Yup, we ALL have donkeys.  Read about your donkey in
the gospels as there are a number of referances to them. 

This IS later 'gator.  The temperature made it up to  92 degrees late this afternoon and is now slaking off to 84 as eve. sneaks in behind the setting sun.  Feels better, for now!  But just wait...tomorrow we get a foretaste of HE double LL, if it hits the 97 mark.

I had a very big steak for supper; as big as my large plate.  Yes, I ate it all.  Working outside gives a person a hearty appetite.  I was craving the high protein.

There isn't anything on TV so I have been reading a lot. I guess I have read about five novels thus far.  I can get lost in a good book. The following comes from a "good book," too.

FEAR NOT,

DAUGHTER OF SION;

BEHOLD ,

THY KING COMES,

SITTING ON THE

COLT OF AN ASS.

John 12: 15

Now, that sounds like fun.  Imagine trying to sit on the young offspring of an ass-donkey. That would be the "colt."  Only Jesus would or could make a young ass behave. Think about making YOUR own offspring behave or do what you think is best! Why Jesus chose a young colt-ass, to carry him through the streets of Jerusalem is another mystery, but an interesting one because He could have chosen almost any other type of transportation of His time and culture.  I am sure there are all kinds of theories written, mulled over and argued about, but my little mind thinks He chose a humble, yet unforgettable way to make an entrance into Jerusalem.  What do think?  Got an opinion?  Oh, sure you do.  EVERYBODY has an opinion!

END

Follow...follow JC along His Yellow Brick Road

We are toasted!!

Oh Yes!  It's hot...its hot a lot.  I know I saw a fish worm crawling along with a suitcase... looking for a cooler climate.  Actually a bird dropped a real fish worm or night crawler right beside the bird bath and it has since dehydrated.  I can't keep enough water in the bird bath or enough water on the tomato plants.  More burn bans have been announce in the area and in the counties near by. 

I almost have my book case "done."  Yes, it has taken me a long time.  It is hard to do with one bad arm that doesn't want to bend or stretch or do what I tell it to do.  So I have been doing a little at a time.  One shelf here,  a little bit there, and a tiny bit in between.  The last part is above my head and that will be the more tricky part as my arm does not and I guess it never will, reach, stretch or bend the way it did three years ago.  I do persist, 'though, and am almost finished.  It may not be a good job and has a lot of flaws and errors, but it will just have to be.

I did mention that I moved the refrigerator last week in order to clean behind it and that putting it back was an endeavor of desperation because it stuck out in the middle of the kitchen.  Getting it back did play havoc on my arm and it is still pretty stiff.  So, whenever I feel sorry for my predicament or have the tendency to complain, I think of all the boys coming back from Afghanistan or Pakistan without arms or legs or various wounds.  Makes me count my blessings.

I see one tiny tomato on the vine and some blossoms.  I may get tomatoes before Christmas.  I don't know what the peppers are gonna do; they look a little stressed.  We need rain

There isn't much going on that is interesting.  I stay in near the A/C as much as I can, but I really need to mow the yard. 
While the grass isn't growing...the weeds are.  I see a little tree right in the middle of my neighbor's yard.  They haven't mowed, either.

Tomorrow is Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Rel (Mem).  If you follow the LOTH go to 1474.
from common of Rel 1858
OOR1061, Rd359 and 1474, Pr 1476...Vol 111.  OR you can just go to Divine Office. org and follow the yellow brick road as it it is all laid out for you.  OK?  OK.  The"yellow brick road" is an illteration, of course...just being silly.

AND YOU SHALL KNOW

THAT I AM

IN THE MIDST OF ISRAEL

AND I AM THE LORD

YOUR GOD

AND THERE IS NONE

BESIDES;

AND MY PEOPLE

SHALL NOT BE

CONFOUNDED

FOR EVER.

Joel 2: 27

END

P.S.  Something evil
bit my hand
Now it is red
and now it is
a puffy palm
not a psalm
but a palm

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!

+++

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

END

DECISIONS TO MAKE

A big backyard to mow

No big garden this year

Decisions...Decisions.  Here is what I have decided.  I will start posting two days per week starting with tonight.  I have things to do, places to go, puddles to jump in and maybe even a few bridges to burn behind me...well, perhaps I won't ignite and bridges.  It is summer and it is a busy time for everyone and I have less to write about.  I have picked Wednesday and Saturday as blogging days.  Surely something will occur to me in between and betwixt those two days.
 
You have no idea how hard it is to come up with something to post every night.  I think I need to"give it a rest" for the summer and then see from there.  Readership has dipped as well, so the rest of the world is trying to "make hay while the sun shines," too.  I will add this, however.  I was more than amazed to see a reader from China.  I have never, ever had a visit from China.  The strange thing was that the China visitor soon disappeared from the stats.  Figure that one out.

So...look for me on Wednesday and Saturday evenings for a while while I decide what the future of this blog will be.  OK?



+++

PEACE I LEAVE

WITH YOU,

MY PEACE

I GIVE UNTO YOU:

NOT AS THE WORLD

GIVETH,

GIVE I UNTO YOU.

LET NOT YOUR

HEART BE TROUBLED,

NEITHER LET IT

BE AFRAID.

John 14: 27

END