“Clouds add character to the heavens.”
When I woke up, a bit ago, it was sunny, hot and humid, the sort of humidity you can see in the air. The sun disappeared then reappeared, only to disappear again where we are now. The heat and the thick humidity stay behind. The forecast is for clouds and maybe even a thunder shower. I’ll be just fine staying nice and cool inside the house. Even the dogs are out and back quickly.
The wind is picking up now and blowing the top branches and leaves of the trees in the backyard, even the biggest trees. The sky is cloudy, a milky white cloud. All of a sudden, the darkness is a bit ominous.
I finished some of my chores yesterday; however, the kitchen floor is still filled with paw prints. I vacuumed all of downstairs, and I cleaned the kitchen counters and the appliances yesterday. Neither chore was on my list. Why I keep a list is at issue, moot.
My main chore today is the kitchen floor. It is in such dire of attention I don’t even look down when I walk through. Besides, I figured I’d run out of excuses but, today’s prediction, the possibility of rain, gives me pause (paws?, sorry).
Nala continues her thieving ways and is getting even more brazen. When I was reading the newspaper, she checked out the paper recycle bag and stole a flat box, totally missing the irony. That I was watching her made no never-mind. She took off down the hall to the back door. She trotted with that boxer pride in her steps, her head held high, ill-gotten gains in her mouth as she went outside. I waited and checked on her. She was tearing the box apart, and I also noticed a hole, a freshly dug hole. Nala is a busy girl.
When I was a kid, Duke, our boxer, drove my father crazy. Duke would take off in the morning and follow kids to school. My dad would yell. Duke would hear his name, turn around and look then turn back around and take off. My dad would jump into the car and give chase. By then, my father was apoplectic and screaming Duke’s name as Duke trotted away. Sometimes Duke got caught. Other times my father had to stop the hunt and leave for work. Later, once the kids were in school, Duke would arrive home, none the worse for the chase. He was, after all, triumphant.
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August 14, 2021 at 1:31 pm
Hi Kat,
Sometimes it’s difficult to tell who owns whom when it comes to dogs. 🙂
We’ve also had a lot of humidity the last couple of days, but a cold front is approaching from Oklahoma and we’re getting a small thunderstorm right now. With my luck the main part of the storm will pass by and we will get very little rain. 😦
We were headed out on another driving adventure to somewhere when the rain stops. We remain in the car on these trips because of the Delta variant. This variant of the virus is filling up hospital ICU beds while our idiot governor won’t modify his order. He’s preventing any local government body from mandating masks or social distancing. Several school districts and counties have sued him over this issue. He’s now appealed any restraining orders in the courts. His position is that it’s up to individuals to determine if they want to wear masks.
There’s a percentage of anti-maskers and anti-vaxers and in his right wing and nut job brain, getting re-elected is more important than public health. The virus is mutating into the Lambda variant which no one knows what its destructive effects will be. I’m amazed at how many of our instructors don’t trust the CDC when we are in the physical science business. Oh, I forgot, those folks don’t trust biological science because it’s full of those evil, atheist, evolutionists like Dr. Anthony Fauci. What else should I expect from Texans because we are the buckle of the Bible Belt. Hallelujah and don’t forget to fill the collection plate.
August 14, 2021 at 4:54 pm
Just returned from a trip to Trader Joe’s grocery store which is located in Southlake. We passed a group of anti-vaxers and ant-mask nut jobs with signs and flags on the side of the highway. Their signs read, “Don’t take away our freedom”, and “No mandate vaccinations”. Southlake is the wealthiest and whitest community in the area and the most prejudiced.
August 14, 2021 at 7:40 pm
Unbelievable! I’d let them have their freedom to choose death but other people around them would suffer. Maybe we need an island similar to the one where they sent Typhoid Mary.
August 14, 2021 at 7:31 pm
Hi Bob,
It rained for maybe three minutes today. Just my luck, I happened to be outside cleaning up the trash from Nala’s fun. Right now, at 7:30, it is 84˚, the high of the day.
Some southern states are getting so hammered by the virus. Florida has the most cases it has ever had. It is no coincidence that the highest cases are in Republican controlled state governments. I feel so bad for the kids who are filling ICU’s, many of not most are there due to their parents’ refusal to get vaccinated or wear masks.
I have always been happy that I was born and bred in Massachusetts. It is considered as liberal as any state. We did, after all, vote for McGovern. People here were hammering Governor Baker to get him to do more, and he did.
This will not go away.