”There’s no ego when you’re a ukulele player.”
Posted August 2, 2024 by katryCategories: Just Because
Good morning! Today I have an early uke concert which doesn’t give me time to post my usual musings. It is a concert of Beach Boys’ music so I’ve got my Hawaiian shirt all ready and my uke tuned.
Today will be hot, the high being forecasted to be 85°. My air conditioning, blasting since yesterday has wonderfully cooled the house. The dogs are comfortable and having their morning naps. Henry is on my bed while Nala is on the couch. I should live their lives. My father always said he wanted to come back as a pet in any of our houses.
Yesterday I added flowers to the deck boxes which had been decimated by the spawns. I also watered all the plants. Later, when it is cooler, I need to fill a couple of bird feeders, getting close to empty because the deck has been abuzz with bird activity.
Well, I need to get ready. I’ll be back tomorrow.
”I am cruel thirsty this hot weather… nothing makes me so excessively peevish as hot weather.”
Posted August 1, 2024 by katryCategories: Musings
The morning is already hot at 81°. Nala was panting. Now, she is having her morning nap. I am in the back of the house in the den. It doesn’t get sun until the afternoon so it is coolish. I haven’t turned on the AC yet but it’s coming. I like the cold the AC brings but with windows and doors closed I miss the sounds of the birds, the bang of the acorns hitting the deck and the swoosh of the leaves in the breeze.
When I was a kid, we didn’t even have a fan. All the windows and doors were open, but the house was hot. The living room was always dark. My mother kept the sun out by covering the windows. My sisters used to run through the sprinkler to get cool in the hot afternoon. I don’t remember being bothered by the heat. I always wore shorts and a sleeveless blouse and sneakers. They were dirty white sneakers with pointed toes. An axiom I figured out as I grew older is the dirtier the white sneakers the younger you are. It’s sort of the same with ice cream. The drippier the cone the younger you are.
I remember a small pond in the woods a bit of a distance from the house. One summer my brother and I built a raft though built is probably an exaggeration. We used vines to connect the branches and pieces of trunks we found in the woods. We launched our raft. Our raft sank, and we got wet. We thought it was funny. We did dry quickly.
In the middle of the field at the bottom of my street was a bubbler. The water was always cold. We taught the dog how to drink from the bubbler. Of course, we had to hold the button. I remember when we walked the tracks, there was a spot where water gurgled from a pipe. The water below the pipe formed a bit of a stream and was clear. We could see the dirt. We used to drink from the pipe. We used to eat any berries we found except for the small round red berries. My brother ate some once and had to have his stomach pumped.
This is my uke free day. I have a concert tomorrow so today is my errand day. The weekend is my housecleaning day. I have to wash the kitchen floor. I can’t stand it anymore.
Runnin’ Down a Dream: Tom Perry and the Heartbreakers
Posted July 30, 2024 by katryCategories: Video
