And Some Got Rain.

 And Some Got Rain.

 

Yes, it may have sprinkled here last night enough to dampen the ground and make the outside air just feel a little bit better. But then, some folks actually got real rain. Jennifer sent a picture of one of the cats sitting in the window watching the rain hit the pool. Told her that it made me jealous, but she thought that we had already had some. Sprinkles and rain are two entirely different beasts. One is a butterfly that hardly even touches anything. The other is a flock of sea gulls looking for a place to land and go poo.

 

Woke up early this morning with a bit of a clogged-up head. We definitely have something in our air that is affecting my allergies. Not so sneezy as just congested between my eyes. Saline solution and being still inside the house seems to help. Just a pretty good breeze going on outside, but the hens still have to have clean water each day. But then, they produced all of two eggs for me. Can’t gripe. Wouldn’t do any good anyway!

 

The man who bought Jerry’s place is over there this afternoon. It looks as if he is giving instructions on what he wants done. The city water guys were over at the mobile home earlier working on a meter connection. It seems to me that it is taking a long time to get the work done, but as hot as it has been, maybe that should not come as a surprise.

 

Have been looking up the causes and treatments for neuropathy and seeing if anything can be done with common sense to reduce the problems associated with it. Since diabetes or even high blood sugar is not a problem here, everything else seems to point to vitamin deficiencies or stress related problems. How different! It almost makes me want to laugh. So, we can all take a chill pill and the nerves will begin to heal themselves. Right. Oh well. The one article did recommend something similar to the keto diet with high protein and low carbs. Probably the most sensible suggestion was the reduction of any kind of sugar in one’s diet. Ah, the perils of learning that what one likes is probably what makes one suffer. Surprise, surprise, surprise!

 

The dogs had to go outside and bark at the behind the house neighbor. He has a different vehicle now. Guess his truck cratered on him. He was constantly hauling stuff from houses and apartments where they got stuff out of old places that were to be remodeled or torn down. Can you imagine the crud on those things! Sometimes he would pile the stuff in front of his gate and others would come get it. Pick a pile incorporated, maybe.

 

Talked to Sterling about the weather. Not like it does any good to complain, but he was saying that they got an inch and a half. Folks up there were so happy to get it! Between Jennifer and Sterling’s bragging, it made me glad to just see clouds. It’s only a hundred degrees outside right now. Strange what perspective does to make a person appreciate a hundred degrees.

 

Other than sleeping, reading, playing a few games and thinking about what tomorrow will need to include by way of cooking, this old woman has been a sloth today. It seems strange that Sterling was just griping about how all his youth was spent in really hard work from can to can’t. And now we work on things that matter to us and rest between the lines of can and can’t. Retirement is such a good feeling except when trying to keep up with which day of the week it might be. But if calendar concerns are my biggest worries, what does that indicate? Life just keeps on going on.

 

Let’s pray for peace, but let’s also pray for rain for all those rivers throughout this world that have dried up and can’t float a fish, much less power up an electric turbine or supply some towns with clean water. Our country is suffering the droughts, the wildfires, and the assorted problems that are being felt all over this world. When we pray for others, it provides perspective. We can at least be thankful that no one is tossing bombs into our major cities or blowing up the ports where we bring in imports like “chips,” oil, car parts, and assorted gizmos that make life interesting. Think about Israel surrounded on all sides by those who hate everything it stands for. How blessed we are to still have a relative amount of freedom. If we could remove racial prejudice, drug violence, and out and out thievery, we would still be the best place on earth to live. We are so very blessed.

 

Rest and stay hopeful. Remember that God loves you.