”I wish I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering that question.”
Today will be hot, 76° being the expected high. The air is thick, but there is a wind strong enough to toss the tall branches of the oak trees and to cool the house. Rain is likely tonight.
Yesterday the traffic was heavy and lined up at the lights. Even the hardware store had no parking spaces. I got what I needed there and then moved on to groceries. I skipped flowers and went home.
Last night I saw my first fireflies. I was delighted. I saw one in the front yard and three or four in the back. I picked one and followed its light as it flitted around the yard. They are my favorite summer visitors.
I could be busy today but I am choosing to be a sloth. The dust balls can get bigger and fly into the air. The winter clothes will stay in the closet one more day, and the paw prints on the kitchen floor will still mark the way. As Scarlett said, “After all, tomorrow is another day.”
I used to be strong, but I also used to be young. I remember hauling 50 pounds of cat litter upstairs. Now I drag dog food bags into the house from the car and move heavy cartons end over end to get them inside. Jars take forever to open, a couple sit unopened in the cabinet. I hate pulling those tabs off of milk and cream. The squeeze and twist off caps of aspirin bottles were made for younger fingers. I’ve used church keys and old bottle openers to hack at bottles and cans. They have become important tools in my arsenal.
I have questions. Who decided bread should be toasted in the morning? Why does Tarzan not have a beard? He didn’t ever shave. Why are the green oranges in Ghana still called oranges? Greenies? Why are some days partly sunny and other days partly cloudy? Cinderella’s shoe fell off. Was it a bad fit or a plan? When I was a kid, I used to wonder if God could make something so heavy even he could not pick it up.
The world is full of conundrums.
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July 6, 2024 at 1:12 pm
Hi Kat,
Today the high temperature will be a chilly 94° under partly sunny skies. I will probably get into the pool again today since my daughter has been here since Wednesday night.
Unfortunately, if you live long enough your strength will dissipate with age. Besides not having the strength I once had, I no longer have the stamina either. I get winded quickly. Years of smoking has reduced my lung capacity. My doctor said I can call it either COPD or, Emphysema whichever I like better.
I think toast was invented because it seems lighter than the bread it’s made from. Tarzan didn’t have a beard for the same reason no one in the movies ever goes to the bathroom. You’re the Ghana expert, maybe it’s the same reason Shakespeare wrote, “A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet”. The sky description depends on the amount of coverage of the clouds. In aviation weather reports the National Weather Service uses the terms, scattered, broken, and overcast. Cinderella is fiction and anything is possible. If god is omnipotent, then he or she could do anything or be anything. If there’s a god, I don’t think he, she, or it can be described nor depicted.
July 6, 2024 at 2:15 pm
Hi Bob,
It rained for a while earlier. Now it is lighter out but still cloudy. Thank God we still have the wind.
Some of the stuff I have trouble doing have little to do with strength and far more to do with dexterity. My fingers just don’t work as well.
I don’t get how bread seems lighter when it is toasted. In other movies we get to see men shave. Maybe, like the Indians, he pulls each hair out one at a time though they used shells. Maybe it is the Shakespeare thing, but they were called oranges long before I got there. Maybe we should blame the British. The local weatherman does use scattered clouds. Overcast is the whole sky, not partially clouded. Sunny is just plain sunny or partially sunny, no other specifics. I don’t see how God can be omnipotent if he concocts something he can’t do, seems contradictory.
July 6, 2024 at 6:49 pm
When you toast the bread much of the moisture is removed which probably makes it seem lighter.
I do like blaming the British. After WWII they refused to give up their colonies and the effects of their colonial policies are still screwing up the Middle East to this day. Brexit was another stupid British move promulgated by prejudice against Eastern Europeans. It’s a perfect example of cutting off your nose to spite your face. When I was in the U.K. A pound sterling was about $2.40. Today it’s $1.28.
July 7, 2024 at 12:21 am
I’ll have to check the bread before and after I toast again.
Ghana became independent in 1957. They were the first sub-Saharan country to be freed. The sun never set on the British Empire. I think they shot themselves in the feet when they voted in Brexit. I remember one trip to England when the pound was dropping. The longer I stayed the better the rate.
July 7, 2024 at 9:04 am
You don’t have to work with them. They all think that they are better and know more than everyone else.
July 7, 2024 at 12:29 pm
They held off the Germans by themselves and survived the blitz. They do have some reasons to be haughty, only some!