The Grass Burs!

 The Grass Burs!

 

Vickie and Gregg got here just a bit before 2 p.m. and after nearly an hour, they have quite a few stickers bagged up and ready for disposal. Just hoping that they can get all the grass burs picked up before they leave. It’s a mess out there!

 

Several rescues have occurred down near Kerrville, but even so, too many have been lost in that flash flood on the Guadalupe River. Not sure just exactly why folks did not know that the flash flood warning had been posted, but let’s hope this is the very last time that such warnings are not taken that seriously. Our nation seems to have harvested so much destruction from the weather in the past few years that we should be more aware of warnings now.

 

Have to duck under a few branches of the crepe myrtle just to get to the water faucet, so my hair has blooms and little green pills that would be blooms in a few days. Makes me very aware that things are in my hair and just glad they are not living creatures. You know, just being thankful that spiders don’t usually fly!

 

Lance found a video of this man whose feet remind me of Roger Thonton’s. Special ordering shoes is one thing, but to have someone ask if those boots were used to put down the white marks on the highway was just funny as all get out! Humor is always good for the life we live.

 

Will have plenty of eggs to send home with Jennifer when she comes on Wednesday. Still have that one hen that lays a thin shelled egg. It’s a mess, but so far, the mess has been easy to remove from the nest. No dirty eggs to use up. Gregg and Vickie said that they still have a few eggs left because they seldom eat breakfast.

 

We have a thirty percent chance of rain through Tuesday. Know that won’t exactly please Patty, but the cloudy skies don’t really bother me right now. So far, we have not had any terrible heat. Summer days are strange right now. It doesn’t even feel like Texas, but more like Arkansas.

 

Someone has started posting again on FB about term limits for Congress. Sounds good to me. If they are restricted to no more than twelve years, then we might not find as many people running for office. If they have to live by the same rules as we do, then they won’t be as interested in “serving.” Seems to me that self-serving has been the norm in the past. But maybe that can be changed.

 

Saw something about Alligator Alcatraz that talked about the horrible mosquitoes around that area as well as possible problems in case of hurricanes. Those two problems would seem to be good enough reasons to make this “camp” a very limited and temporary stopgap measure. No one needs to be subjected to insects that will make folks sick. And the idea of putting someone in the aim of a bad storm is just as bad. Let’s hope that this will change very soon.

 

Meanwhile, let us pray for our nation, our leaders, and our world that peace and common sense might help all of us through God’s mercy.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.