

My mint plants have been flowering for the last month or so. The blossoms are pretty, and pretty unique as you can see. And the honeybees just love them, so I have a fair number of honeybees out there in the back most of the time these days.

I should mention that I bought a new car yesterday. A pretty, midnight blue 2014 Subaru Outback with all the bells and whistles. It's going to take me a while to learn to drive it I think. Everything's electronic. Push button ignition (no key!), electronic parking break, back-up cameras for seeing behind you when you're going in reverse, navigation system, cell phone synced by bluetooth, etc, etc. It also has forward cameras, which if you leave them on while you're driving, will brake the car before you can if they see an obstruction ahead of you, and will also beep to warn you if you change lanes without signalling (figuring you're falling asleep at the wheel). You can also set the cruise control to drive a specific distance from the car ahead of you, so if that car speeds up, so will yours and if that car stops, so will yours. Won't be long before cars are driving themselves.

So far I'm driving with all those things turned OFF, although I have tried out the navigation system. We don't agree with the best route sometimes, so it politely recalculates the route if I go where it didn't intend me to. It's a pretty nice car, and handles like a dream, so so far I'm pretty pleased. I promised my sister I'd sell her the 2008 Outback, so that one will go to her whenever she wants to come and get it.
That's about all for today. I thought I'd end this with a picture of Zoe enjoying both the sunlight and the air-conditioning from the house. Or maybe she's guarding the door.
Later.
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