Sponge City!

 Sponge City!

 

The humidity is right around 83% today, so walking around outside is like trying to get through a sponge! Can’t imagine trying to get anything done outside today. But even inside, my head feels as if it is thicker than usual. Lay down earlier and fell asleep long enough for the dentist’s office to call to reschedule my June appointment. No biggie. But it made me realize that the slight headache earlier had resulted from sinus congestion. That really seems like such a tiny complaint when compared to all the suffering going on throughout the areas where these storms have laid waste and destroyed lives. May God help those affected and may God protect the first responders and the technicians who have to attempt to restore services in those areas. Vividly recall what it was like after the tornado in 1979 when Wichita Falls was hit by one that just stayed on the ground from one side to the other of our city.

 

Patty said that she didn’t mind if you heard the story of the “clean out” instructions that she shared with her step-son and his wife this past weekend. She told him that when he went to clean out the house after she died, if he found frozen scorpions in the deep freeze in Ziplock bags, that he should know that FIRST she sprayed them with poison, used metal tongs to pick them up, put them in the plastic bags, zipped them up, and then put them in the freezer. In other words, if they did not die of the poison and the airless bags, surely being frozen would kill them! She said that DG and Michelle just sat there and laughed for a good while. DG finally asked her if she had ever considered just stepping on them. But she told him she would not put her foot on something like that! So, due to Patty’s paranoia, we got to sit outside on her patio and rock with laughter again. No one is quite like my neighbor Patty!

 

DG had changed some lightbulbs on two of her fence lights and then forgot to turn the switch to “on,” so they did not come on last night. The old woman walked across the dog yard and discovered that both lights were in the “off” position. Fixed that and managed to get into the rusty barbed wire on top of the fence. Barbed wire, rose thorns, and mesquite thorns must all be related, but came home and cleaned the cut and put antibiotic cream on it, so that should do for that little problem. And yes, have had a tetanus shot in the past three years.

 

Have another broody hen now. Must be something to do with the season. The female duck keeps going inside the hens’ coop, but she has just found the feed. Wonder if she has not been nesting this year. The number of critters around here would take care of any eggs she laid if given a chance. The raccoons would even kill her if she tried to stay on the nest. Life is pretty perilous for winged friends—even the ornery ones that get into chicken feed!

 

The other day it took an actual thought process to make myself go into the house instead of doing even one more task. The rosemary needs to be trimmed back drastically, but my energy level was already having to be pushed somewhat after my morning. Finally, decided that the rosemary could wait until another day. Being ADHD has its advantages, but it also can cause a person to get totally drug out and dragging one’s duff. It just is not necessary to get everything done at once!

 

United has chicken breasts on sale again for 97 cents a pound. Yes, got three packages and put them on to cook in Jennifer’s roaster. Also found some ribs that were BOGO and a roast that would feed an entire family. Those are awaiting more energy for cooking tomorrow. They also had Libby’s green beans and corn for 87 cents a can. Can remember when Mom gasped at the price of 50 cents a can! Today they seldom ever have anything under a dollar bill for any type of canned goods! Times, and values, have certainly changed.

 

The dogs have left some interesting footprints on the floors, so sometime this week, these floors absolutely HAVE to be vacuumed and mopped. Life is never dull.

 

May you have peace knowing that God loves you!