We have a couple of medical items today in the extended family. My nephew is having surgery in Victoria, and my wife is getting her sleep apnea/airway results this morning too. Fingers crossed for swift healing, and good news all around.
Us on the other hand will need to head down to the farm to pick cucumbers for pickling purposes. A quick one hour jaunt before the temperatures begin to soar again. The humidity has made a comeback after being really mild for 10 or so days. Unseasonably rainy in these parts this summer too. Lush foot tall green grass in august is unheard of. Not this year though. I can usually slow down to one cut a month come July, but I’ve had a go at it atleast once a week non-stop since May. At $1.73/L of gas that is going to prove to have been a very expensive maintenance item this year. Could always be worse, if you think about it long enough.
What is worse than non-stop growing grass you might ask, I’ll tell you. The all consuming growth of weeds. But I will say this, the rain has kept the soil soft & fluffy, so the weeds and their roots pull right out. Not that my back or knees care much for that fact mind you. Hunched over on all fours pulling several hundred pesky weeds and long grasses out of my flower beds is not my ideal way to spend an afternoon, nor a morning for that matter. Bugs are still really awful this late in the year tells me one of two things. Either the winter was too mild to kill off much of the winged buzzing bug population, or the avian flu has killed much of the winged bug eating bird types that would usually be out here keeping those pests under control. Hm.
Still haven’t read much of book #15. Had a bit of misfortune with a friends passing, funerals and a fund raiser. Then I was feeling really unfocused, and I haven’t managed to get the desire to read back just yet. I’m kinda leaning towards going to sculpt something, but my resin kit remnants is taking up my work bench. Scatter brained as of late it seems.
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