So, didn’t go kayaking. My mind just wasn’t there for it today.
BUT,
I didn’t waste the day away: trimmed back my half acre of weeds (read. mowed grass) did quite a bit of straightening up around the house, and cleaned the litter box seeing how its getting to the cold months: The kids don’t really use it much in the summer months, unless they are trapped indoors by Thunderboomers and hydraulic pressure becomes too much. I used to clean it weekly, until I realized I panning an empty box during the summer months. Yup, even penned inside the house, they will hold on until the last second as they much prefer the out of doors to do that business. A settlement I have no issues with,,,
As for that mowing the weeds thing; gah!!! Lets see how many allergens we can stir up and cause Dio’s nose to make like a faucet,,, On top of the mold spore issues,,,
Its been pretty dry this week: had a little rain yesterday morn, but not enough to get the ground wet. No gaping cracks in the dirt areas, but there are signs of them coming along, (certainly not those leg breakers we would get in Texas. You could lose a cow in one of those canyons that open up in the summer.), and that made for quite a dusty endeavor; especially since my ‘yard’ is still untamed, grows rocks better than grass (or even weeds for that matter) and where I had no issues last week, suddenly, I am hitting a dirt mound. Nope, not mole hills, just where one section of ground has settled lower than its surrounding area and the remainder sits proud enough to get clipped by mower blades. Totally untamed yard. It will take another twenty years for this ground to settle down. Old tree roots rotting under ground is the big one, then those pesky rocks that seemingly rise to the surface like breaching whales. Rock: denser than earth, but rises to the top like a cork in water. At least that’s how I figure it. Or, they are semi-intelligent and want a suntan or something: and maybe thats the case, they just operate at a MUCH slower frequency than we do. Dunno, but might make a good point in a some storyline in the future. (been done, Star Trek I believe, but copying an idea for a story is NOT plagiarism: if it were, we wouldn’t have anything to read beyond the bible,,,,)(and another book that comes to mind. Which art in HOPE. If you’ve never read it, give Francis some love and do so. Good read with some serious thinking about what a TRUE free enterprise world could look like AND how it could be torn apart by its own people in later books. No more teasers though: go read.)
Damn! Mama and Grizz figured out I had the laptop open,,, They INSIST that this time is THEIRS,,, Can go hours without a peep from them, but the minute the Mac starts to purr, they demand my attentions. More laters when I can get them to leave me be,,,
