Ok, it can rain anytime now! Like today would be great! 34° right now in the shade, the grackles are panting outside, I put a pan of water down for them in front, and back:)
It’s not just the grackles, it’s watching the leaves wilt and fall off the trees that is heartbreaking:( We are a long way from Fall but the trees in some areas look like October! Then there is the fire risk…This is a bit disturbing…let’s hope we actually get some thunderstorms Wednesday as predicted. Forecast is for another week of hot temperatures.
…and humans…don’t get me started on the abject stupidity out there…We had morons here at the Lake setting off fireworks last week…are they idiots? Everything is tinder dry…what is wrong with people?? Jesus f’ing Christ. Some idiots set some trees on fire at Otty Lake. Is it such a a tall order getting people to actually think…??? Yes, I yelled at them and called them f’ing morons… sorry, not sorry…after all those years in Baja, a tinder dry spot, now we have them here…0_0…I guess they’ve always been here but it’s the lack of acuity…the inability to look around and go wow…dry…no giant bonfire would be smart, but when they are drunk, well, we all know the great decisions we make when that happens said NO ONE! I posted this awhile back, not many folks liked it, that’s fine…
If Earth’s history were condensed into 24 hours, life would have appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm…it’s past our bedtime no? Ha! OK, enough ranting about stupidity and how humans find themselves and their religions so important;)
I wandered down to the dock a few mornings ago before sunrise, I’ve been dodging the smoke, hard on me but finally it looked like we had a clearer morning! Those pinks were so lovely…
I was wondering when I got to the top of stairs on my way back why I was huffing. Checked the humidity when I came back in…96%…ugh! It was worth it;)
Do I like the heat? the humidity? Let me think about that-No…after spending my youth in the tropical belt surrounding this round planet ( yes it’s round;)..! Ha! I really have no desire to return to that kind of climate! Hours spent sweating in the forepeak, can’t sleep, no wind, only a 12 volt fan for air movement ( well, while the battery bank lasted anyway). No AC, just water, swimming, sweating…sitting in the shade, doing everything you have to do…sweating. My mother never got it, she didn’t sweat. I swear I only saw a bead of perspiration, remember ladies don’t sweat, they perspire, on her forehead once…She kept buying me antiperspirants as a teenager…they didn’t help…what was wrong with her child? Apparently inherited my father genes in that department:) Thanks Dad….Ha! So, while I was driving the other day I pulled in behind this beautifully restored 60’s Ford truck, I do love Chrome. It was his license plate…had me grinning and laughing. Maybe I know him? Maybe his name is Dun Sailn! Maybe he sailed in the tropics as a child as well? Ha!…why do I live inland, because…I’m dunsailn;) Why is the heat following me now??? Wait…there is AC now as well!
Ok, the heat has me a bit cranky;) That and humans:) I had Mike stop on the Narrows Lock Road where there is a patch in the ditches, full of wildflowers, all kinds of different varieties and species. Some native, some invasive. I knew they would be wilted pretty soon with the heat and I was pondering why in this spot are they still left?
Mike and I were married on his family farm 31 years ago, last day of July. We decided to spend the money my mother gifted us for the wedding on the food, tent and bar! (OK, I did sell a horse as well to get power up to the tent on the hilltop!) So early in the morning we went and picked wildflowers along the road to decorate an arch. The entire road, on both sides was blooming, up and down as far as you could see. It’s 1.2 km walk from our house down to the farm. (solar panels sadly now, green, but it destroyed so much forest and green to be that that it’s a joke, a bad joke and don’t get me started on what the current house owners just did massacring the yard..)Like I said I’m cranky;) Ha! So what happened to all those wildflowers? Why only a few patches? Is spraying to blame? When will we learn that the herbicides and pesticides our townships and governments tote as so safe are killing us as quickly as the kilometers and kilometers of wildflowers now mostly gone…and the insects that feed on them as well:( Yes, there is wild turnip…then stay out of the f’ing ditch! Why do we destroy an ecosystem because a few people are allergic? Will we be getting rid of bees next? It has been a cranky week!
On a positive note…yup, we need a few of those. I have a calla lily blooming! Yes, just one. I’m happy to report it is being guarded by a very cranky, like me, molting male Ruby-throated Hummingbird. I did initially promise not to take his picture because he looked like he’d been on a week long bender but still, I told him he was beautiful! We all need a bit of love!
I’ll work harder next Spring on flowers I told him! Today he had a juvenile guarding it! Pretty sure it’s a juvenile boy as the females don’t normally claim a spot like this guy, chasing even the bees away! Ha! BBOC..big bird on campus;)
Ok, enough cranky! I’ll catch up later with the Traveling Mewberries latest escapade, code name-EATGrasshopper- a reconnaissance mission…and the latest birds and bugs that have stopped by. Maybe I’ll go down to the dock and do a wild naked rain dance, cottage renters might all disappear! “Inside kids! Quickly, there’s a lunatic on the dock!” I can dance…sort of! Ha! …manaña amigos! I’m really not cranky now;) I’ve stopped swearing like the sailor I am;)
