Breathing Underwater!

 Breathing Underwater!

 

We have had a considerable amount of rain, and then some more rain. Have not even waded down to the rain gauge on the fence on the downhill slope toward Kemp Blvd. According to the weather station on top of my house, we have received 6.64 in the last few days. That’s nearly seven inches, Dear Hearts! Maybe Lake Arrowhead will be getting filled up.

 

Patty said that she feels as if she is trying to breathe underwater with all the humidity and constant rain. And the thunder has poor little Roxie just trembling next to Patty. My dogs are hunkered down wearing their thunder shirts and shadowing my feet. It makes walking interesting. Anyway, unless something drastic happens, we are going to be overgrown with this clover stuff the old woman planted. The plant identifier on Google says it is geranium, but we know better. Anyway, it is going to take a while to dry out long enough to be able to cut the grass.

 

Bent over and sat down in the front flower bed. Lance told me he thought my poppies were beautiful, but they simply do not last long. The larkspur only blooms for about a week or so before it begins to shed its seeds. And the bluebonnets already have seed pods on the plants. Anyway, got about half of the flowerbed weeded in two days by just sitting there and pulling the weeds and placing them in a bucket. Yes, the old woman is sore.

 

The hens are not overly concerned about all this water/rain, but the ducks are even less concerned. They have a few spots in the back yard where they can even paddle!

 

Was SO glad to have Lance come visit today. He brought an Amazon special and installed it to cool the living room. It is a pretty fancy appliance with swiveling louvres and multiple applications to read about. So, when the rain stops and the heat comes in on heavy feet, the old woman will be prepared.

 

Read through lesson eight on Tom Bradford’s Torah lessons in Matthew—and that only covers chapter four! Either he is very thorough or the old woman is very slow. Still learning and enjoying the extra understanding. Amazing how differently those early Christians looked at things. One thing that really surprised me was that the religious purposes of those days were divided between the temple system and the synagogue system. One was covered by the Pharisees and the other by the Sadducees. Neither one would have accepted John the Baptist, much less accepted that a son of God had been born, lived, and was crucified. These lessons made it clear that neither system was right with the way God had set up worship in the beginning. The Levitical priesthood no longer worked in either place.

 

Patty was saying that all this rain makes her unable to take more than two steps before she has to have oxygen. Know it must feel very scary to her not to be able to breathe. Please pray for her that she will be able to endure this weather. We know the heat is next, but at least we can usually breathe through the heat.

 

We took Lance’s new car to the feed store this morning and got two sacks of lay mash, one sack of wheat, and one of sunflower seeds. That should keep us through this next month. With as much green stuff as they are eating lately, at least no cabbage will be necessary for the hens. They are up to their backs in green stuff!

 

Made taco salad for din/upper this evening. Not bad, not bad at all. Just was surprised to see how much greasy water was in the hamburger meat when cooking it. The “good” stuff is not that watery, but it costs a lot more. Have you ever had tough hamburger? The roast prepared around here last week must have come from an old cow or someone’s boots. Lance said it probably just needed it to cook longer. Maybe.

 

This weather is enough to make a person sleepy. Lance went home early because he was about to fall asleep and we could not get outside to do anything else. He repaired the hole where Thompson escaped the other night, so that was all that really had to be done. Both dogs were barking at a big yellow and white cat that streaked across the yard and climbed a mesquite tree on Patty’s place. But Thompson just was not satisfied and had to get on the other side of the fence to chase it down. Dogs!

 

Remember to pray for healing and comfort for those who are in need. May they be healed now in this lifetime.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.