Day Two Hundred Twenty Two 2013

This and That

Neil mowed the grass for the first time in I don’t know when today. He had to mow it high, then mowed it a second time to get it as short as possible before the next monsoon. It was slow going and took him forever. We have a mulching mower, but he gave up on that and finally just let it fly. Looks like a hay field right now. That robin probably thinks so, too.

We enjoyed another clear day. Hot and humid. Feels like August.

The blooms on my hydrangea bushes go from full color to faded, depending on how much sun we’ve had. These beautiful blooms are on one stalk~the only full color flowers on one of my bushes. So I cut it and brought it inside to enjoy.

It’s amazing what a dramatic effect lighting has in a photograph. Same flowers, different lighting.

Daughter Holly brought these to me a couple of weeks ago from her yard, and I’ve enjoyed them so much. But they’ve seen better days. I think they’re still kind of pretty even dried up. Neil wants to plant the seeds and see if we can grow some in our yard. I wouldn’t mind that at all.

Day Two Hundred Twenty One 2013

I almost burned holes in my retinas taking this picture. Thank God for glorious sunshine! A sight for sore [and waterlogged] eyes. Happy TGIF, y’all!

Day Two Hundred Twenty 2013

W E T

So I just did me some talkin' to the sun
And I said I didn't like the way he got things done
Sleepin' on the job
Those raindrops are falling on my head, they keep falling
~from the song ‘Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' by Burt Bacharach, Hal David

I was officially tired of rain about a month ago. Sometimes it seems like it’s never going to stop ~ like the sun is never going to shine again, especially on days like today. This picture looks kind of like something I ran through Photoshop, but it’s just a snapshot of the water rushing around in my yard today. The raindrops made some bubbles which was kind of cool. Otherwise, it can stop now. Please. Stop.

Day Two Hundred Nineteen 2013

Lesson for the day: Never park your car beside a road that floods in a heavy downpour. That little red car is mine. I went to climb in after Neil and I had finished our subs and had waited out the heavy rain, never thinking that the car coming toward me on that street was going to drive through that flood and send a giant wave of water into me. If I hadn’t had my umbrella over me, I would have been drenched from head to toe.  I still got soaked from chest to Crocs. And was about to get soaked again, but the next car in line took pity on me and slowed down enough so that the wave wasn’t a tsunami. It's funny because we were sitting in a window booth, watching this road start to flood when I took this random picture, and I was thinking that anybody standing out there on the sidewalk would get drowned by the wave from a passing car. Well, duh! [Where's a surf board when you need one?]

Day Two Hundred Eighteen 2013

Randomness

Lunch with the lions in Dogwood Park today. [This cool bench would look great in my yard.]

On this date in 1945, the U.S.  B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped the “Little Boy” atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. This is not the Enola Gay as you may well have suspected. Neil flew his plane this afternoon. It started to rain on his way home, so he had to dump it on the front porch to get it quickly out of the wet.

Obesity continues to be one of the nation's leading public health problems - health officials call it a longstanding epidemic. A third of U.S. children and teens and more than two-thirds of adults are obese or overweight. But a recent study shows that in 18 states, there were at least slight drops in obesity for low-income preschoolers, health officials said Tuesday.  Three states - Colorado, Pennsylvania and Tennessee - increased. Really? I can’t imagine why. [BTW, Neil and I enjoyed our supreme personal pans at Pizza Hut/Taco Bell for supper this evening. Maybe I’ll do some extra sit-ups. No. Wait. I haven’t done sit-ups since I quit my exercise class three years ago.] Stick a fork in me; I’m done.