Geez! I am SO over this heat. And I'm not just saying that because I just mowed my lawn. It's frigging HOT outside!
According to my newspaper July was the hottest July on record. Nice to know. What else I know is that this last week we've broken the daily high temperature every single day. 107 on Monday, 110 on Tuesday, 109 on Wednesday, 108 on Thursday and 107 on Friday, every single one a new daily record for hot. And we're now on day 36 of consecutive daily temperatures over 100, quietly creeping up on the 42 day record from 1980. *sigh* Have I mentioned that I'm tired of this heat?
I just mowed my back lawn today, which is one of the reasons I'm bitching about the heat. It really looks nice when it's freshly mowed though. It's filled in amazingly from the p
atchy lawn I started with this spring and in places it's really thick. You can see from this picture how nice it's looking. The front lawn is still patchy and struggling, but that saves me on days like today when I only need to mow the back and not both yards. Even though I started at 10:00 am, it was miserable mowing. This picture is actually here to show the remains of the peach tree trunk. It's splitting! Right down the center. Weird.
atchy lawn I started with this spring and in places it's really thick. You can see from this picture how nice it's looking. The front lawn is still patchy and struggling, but that saves me on days like today when I only need to mow the back and not both yards. Even though I started at 10:00 am, it was miserable mowing. This picture is actually here to show the remains of the peach tree trunk. It's splitting! Right down the center. Weird.I started the lawn work a little late this morning because I wanted to get the inspection sticker on my car first. It's due this month and in two weeks I'll be leaving on vacation. The car's now ready to go, even if I'm not. I'm going to need to spend next weekend doing all the stuff I really don't like to do . . . dusting, cleaning bathrooms, etc. My sister will be coming here and then we'll leave from here for vacation, so I need to do a real house cleaning instead of the usual lick and a promise. I need to start pulling out all the camping gear here pretty soon also.
A funny thing, when I drove off from the car dealership this morning, I realized they had left a package of those car air fresheners on my dashboard. *laughing* I couldn't decide whether to be insulted or not. I mean, maybe the guy who drove my car out front left them there by mistake. Or maybe it's like how they always wash the car before they give it back to me, it's meant to be an 'after service' nice thing. They may not be trying to tell me that my car stinks . . .which it doesn't actually. Still, if it's meant as a nice 'after care' gesture, they should pick one that's slightly less ambiguous.
Another thing I need to do, pre-vacation, is decide whether I think Addy will be okay for 10 days if someone only comes in to put food down every 3-4 days. Or if I should hire someone to come in and put wet food down daily. Addy tends to lose weight when I'm gone and I'm wondering if she wouldn't lose weight, or wouldn't lose as much if she had the option of wet food daily. Her teeth are not that good, so maybe the dry food is hard for her. She gets daily wet food when I'm here. If I hire someone, she won't come out for them, but after they leave she might come out and eat the wet food. Decisions, decisions. Will she be more stressed by having a stranger come in, or by extended time of only dry food?
I got my Kindle. It's pretty cool, I gotta admit. I particularly like being able to buy a book and having it in my Kindle 30 seconds later. Instant gratification! No more waiting for books to ship. This is so going to come in handy when traveling.
Anyway, just random ramblings today. Think I'll go look for something to snack on.
