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OMG!!! Back from the dead. It's amazing how good you feel when you don't feel lousy. I was actually going to mow the lawn, today. I got my mowing clothes on, and grabbed my mowing cap. I got to the shed, and the 94 degree heat hit me. Ain't doing that today. The shed door latch was boilingly hot.
Granted it doesn't take much for me to not mow my lawn, but frying on a lawn tractor ain't doing it. My lawn will be just as overgrown tomorrow, as it is now.
Right now, I have to pay homage to the A.C. god.
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Wait ‘til it cools off a little. 😉🤭😂

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I spoke a little too soon. Got up and felt crummy. I'm all stuffed up. I have to jack up the TV to hear it. When I opened the front door the heat hit me- nope. My grass can grow higher today.
I got an email from my car, since I haven't been using it, the battery was wearing down. That's kind of cool. There's this hunk of metal sitting in my drive way and emailing me. I must have been a con artist in a previous life. I thought about emailing it back telling it I'm a Nigerian Prince.
 
TA Da, I finally mowed the lawn. I don' know why I dread mowing it. Probably, because I'll be sore as hell in a couple of days. The deaf guy across the street must be on vacation. My lawn is, now, shorter than his. That hasn't happened in 35 years.
I heard " MY Girl", by the Temptations on the radio. That song broth me back to 1968, when I worked at a hamburger joint. 3 o'clock was a dead time, so the 4 people on the registers would put on a "concert". "MY Girl" was our favorite song, and , of course, we aped the Temptations' moves. Mentally I was back at Kemp's Burgers. I could see the stainless steel counters and the dark orange floor bricks.
BTW, this is the 4th time I type this, I'm not sure where the other sections went.
 

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I got a pic of Frank, the young buck deer that hangs around my yard. I got a pic but I don't know how to get from my phone to here. There's a problem. Well, anyway Frank, the deer, likes sleeping in my back yard.
Mowing the lawn, yesterday, I got bit by a tree. I was pushing a pine tree branch out of the way, so I could get the mower closer to the trunk. The branch slipped out of my hand and whacked into my other arm, ripping the flesh. It's not deep, but a got a line of missing skin. It was kind of fun, being a nurse again. And bandaging my arm, one handed.
It's been kind of bazaar weather, lately. It was in the 90s, then dropped down into the 50s last night. I had to turn the heat on.
BTW, I got an email from MY car insurance company telling me how much I could save if I switched to them???????????
 
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I have to turn in my "Wildlife Observer Badge". I wake up and there's Frank, the deer, laying down in my back yard. Or there will be an oval in my front lawn where Frank spent the night. Yesterday I tried to get a pic of Frank, but for some blankety-blank reason the pic wouldn't get posted. Then I happened to glance out the window and there were 3 Franks in the yard. THAT'S why I've been seeing Frank all over the place. DUH!!!!!! I got a pic of two of them.

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Got a major case of the wifties, today. I must have asked myself at least 100 times, "What was I supposed to be doing?" There are times I really shouldn't be let off the leash. When you walk into the bathroom and NOT have any idea why you are there :unsure:
BTW I'm so proud of myself. Last night I went to Lowe's and bought three different items, and I did it in less than 30 minutes- that's in and out of the store time. That's not an easy thing to do in a Lowe's. They do give your item's aisle# and bay# online. Somehow you think "aisle 22" would be next to "aisle 23", but apparently you have not shopped at Lowe's. One time my unique item was in "aisle 58" and the staff didn't know they had one. It took me a half hour to find it.
 
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It' raining, AGAIN. I still have some mowing my lawn yet, and I need to use my grass trimmer. I can't say that I'm devastated that I can't get out there and work, because it's raining, but it would be nice to see the sun again. Everybody gripes about the weather. So, I checked and in May I had 5 inches of rain, and there's 6 inches for June. That's an all time high, or close to it, if you take away the rain from hurricanes.
BTW, Frank, the deer, or one of the 3 Franks, since i found out there are 3 of them, was sitting in the back yard, in the rain. He didn't seem to be bothered by the rain. I guess there's not a whole lot he can do about it. In winter, the deer don't seem to be bothered by the cold. I'd be outside shivering and turning blue, the deer just kind of mosey on looking for something to chew on. I ramble along about the deer, because there so many up here. It's not unusual to see a deer, it's unusual to NOT see a deer.
 
Elsie said:
A cousin of mine told me that many people think of deer as Bambi-like. But their hides are rough and they can be very ornery. :unsure:
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Years ago, during the rutting season, there was a big buck with a bunch of does in my yard, There's always deer somewhere around. I went outside and this buck starts to paw the ground and swing those huge antlers around. He's all hot and bothered that I'm going to steal his women folk. Besides antlers, deer have sharp hooves that can kill. He's making these sounds- I never knew deer could make noise. He's really waving those antlers, making sounds, and pawing the ground hard. He's getting ready to charge me, so I ran back into the house. Yup, they all aren't Bambi.
 
It's raining. Again. I think the last time I saw the sun God was a kid.
Today is July 2. Somehow, it doesn't feel like July. It feels like the beginning of April.
In a couple of days, it'll be the 4th. That's the day we celebrate the birth of our nation by waiting in massive traffic jams on the interstate. So, for the next few days, Interstate 80 will be a parking lot. That does put a cramp in things for us locals, who use the highway to get to stores, movies , etc. I've been stuck on 80, just a few hundred feet from my exit for 3-4 hours.
 
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It's bright and early on a sunny July day. I still have some mowing to do on my lawn, and get out the weed whacker. Mr. Great Lawn, the deaf guy across the street, probably mowed his lawn twice before breakfast. I have to finish mowing my lawn twice this year. Right, now I have every intention of getting out there and start mowing. The thing is I'll have a good 12 hours to come up with an explanation of why I didn't.
Every year I have a list of stuff I need to do around the place. When there's snow on the ground, I figure out how I can get everything done little by little each day. And every summer, I don't do it.
I got this procrastination thing down pat.
 
Darn!!!! We had a "Severe Weather" storm yesterday, JUST as I was about to mow the lawn. Yup, that crushed my dreams of weed whacking the weeds.
But I did get some things done.
I'm up to my neck in frisky deer. This the first time the does came out in a group with their fawns. Usually, it's just a doe and her fawn.

My old pharmacy, Right Aid closed, so now I have CVS. And those people are swamped. The staff looks totally frazzled. Everybody has this" Oh, God, please make this day end" look on their faces.
 
Woke up this morning, and it was freezing. It was 59 degrees. It's supposed to be in the mid 80s today. I had to switch off my A.C. and turn on the furnace. It irked me that I'm paying to heat my place only to turn on the A.C. in a few hours.
And just why is the temp in the 50s in July?
The deaf guy across the street hasn't mowed his lawn in a while. That's not like him. I'll have to ask my other neighbor about it. There's always one neighbor, who knows everybody, and everything that going on. Any time I have some gossip, he knows the full story. I don't know my neighbors last names, and more probably I don't know any of their names. Yet, he could rattle off their kids' names.
 
On Friday night, Independence Day, my neighbor's fireworks were rather puny. But last night, they put on a great show. There are 3 or 4 people shooting off fireworks. They are spread out over the development, so it looks cool. Every year, it's an impressive show. Fireworks are not cheap, and what they shot off must have cost $ thousands. There's another development over the hill, so we get to see their fireworks, too.
Of course, the fireworks are illegal. Well, we only have a couple of cops and lots of people shooting off fireworks. It's kind of like chickens are not allowed, but at dawn, there's a rooster crowing. Humans are not known for being totally honest, and law abiding.
 
I have a 2 PM appointment for a haircut with Eddy- the Master Stylist. (Eddy has a sign saying he's a Master Stylist.) This is kind of messing up my day. I want to go grocery shopping, I go late in the day. Then the other 'crips' have gone home, and I can get an electric cart. But then there are programs on TV I want to watch. Plus I have some more mowing to do (fat chance). Somehow there just wasn't a lot of time to do all that I wanted to do. I kept trying to figure out time schedules. It used to take 30 minutes to get to Eddy's, but they are working on the road and it's closed. So. it takes about an hour to go the long way.
So, I pull up at Eddy's. When I walk in, the clerk, looked at me and said, "What are you doing here? Your appt. is for next Sunday".
AAAHHh!
I'm just so traumatized, I won't be able to mow, today.
 
It's 10 AM, and it's time to get off my butt and do some lawn work. We'll see @ 8 PM, if I did. It's not that I dislike lawn work, it's that it saps me of energy for about a week. Tomorrow, I'll be wiped out and sore as hell. Instead of making breakfast, I'll open a can of spaghetti.
I won't feel like singing and doing a big dance scene, like in those TV medicine ads. I just love how sick people take some med, and then they're happily singing, dancing, skiing, surfing, climbing mountains, etc. Everybody in those ads have great big grins on their faces.
When I crawl out of bed in the morning, nobody would say I'm smiling. I'm much more closer to Frankenstein waking up.
BTW. When I break out in a good laugh, my phone acts up. It's says "I'm sorry I didn't get that". :unsure:
 
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TA DA !!!!
Got the mowing done. Yeah!!!!!!!
I have an acre and a third. When I was a young buck, I used to mow the entire area with a push gas mower. Today, nobody with eyes would call me a "young buck", and I have a riding mower. And I dread mowing my lawn. Way back when I bought my place, I wanted my own 'empire', where I was Emperor. Today, I don't need all that land. It's more of a drag on me than an asset. It's nice and it's my home, but kind of impractical.
Now, I have to figure out how to get rid of my ground hog.
 
This has been a year of furry forest "friends" moseying on by. I had this solar light thing attached to my deck. It's a cylinder with a light on top. They were getting rid of them, and I got it for $2. It hasn't worked in months.
The base was screwed into the railing, so I picked up the cylinder part. And there were 30-40 wasps in a hive. Years ago, I ran over a nest with my lawn mower, and they chased me all over the yard till I was able to run inside. Yesterday, I was inside in about 3 seconds. All morning long, they were buzzing around, darting all over the place. In the afternoon, they were gone. They took the kids and left. All the cells in the nest were empty. Every year I find a nest someplace.
Now, all I have to do is keep the lawn from growing till next year.
 
@fuzzybuddy Best watch out for those wasps. Buy a can of wasp and hornet spray as the spray goes a long distance to kill them.

I had hornets coming into my enclosed porch. I guess they get in with the small openings on the screen doors where they are attached to the sides. We spray at them and kill them, but 3 weeks ago, I got stung by one of them and it really hurt for awhile and it took 2 weeks for the itching and redness to go away.
 
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@fuzzybuddy Best watch out for those wasps. Buy a can of wasp and hornet spray as the spray goes a long distance to kill them.

I had hornets coming into my enclosed porch. I guess they get in with the small openings on the screen doors where they are attached to the sides. We spray at them and kill them, but 3 weeks ago, I got stung by one of them and it really hurt for awhile and it took 2 weeks for the itching and redness to go away.
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Yup, sprayed nest with Raid. I always get them building a nest between the back door and the back screen door. They can squeeze into any opening.
 
It's amazing how small things can trigger memories. I was at the grocery store. I bought a few cans of "fruit cocktail". As I was going through the checkout, the guy behind me said, " I haven't seen fruit cocktail since my mother put it in Jello". Instantly, I saw my mom's Jello fruit salad. I saw her big bowl; it was clear glass with yellow dime size dots on it. For some reason, a Jello fruit salad seemed a very "in" thing back in the '60s.
And, yeah there were drugs, wars and riots in the '60s, but one thing is a fact. Without the '60s, there wouldn't be any reruns on TV, today.
 
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It's amazing how small things can trigger memories. I was at the grocery store. I bought a few cans of "fruit cocktail". As I was going through the checkout, the guy behind me said, " I haven't seen fruit cocktail since my mother put it in Jello". Instantly, I saw my mom's Jello fruit salad. I saw her big bowl; it was clear glass with yellow dime size dots on it. For some reason, a Jello fruit salad seemed a very "in" thing back in the '60s.
And, yeah there were drugs, wars and riots in the '60s, but one thing is a fact. Without the '60s, there wouldn't be any reruns on TV, today.
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Then there was the strawberry chiffon pie, no strawberries were harmed in the making of this pie. 😉🤭😂

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I like being retired. "Man~ana"- Spanish for "tomorrow" is my motto. I have to bang some siding back into place and that's it for the day. I'm wiped out from food shopping and mowing.
There was a movie on last night about Alvin Straight, who rode a lawn mower for six weeks to see his dying brother. It's a true story. I guess I'm not the romantic type. I kept thinking the money he spent on gas/food, etc along the way, he could have bought a bus ticket and been there in a few hours.
BTW, I'm not sure how the owners of the short term rental home across the street are doing. They put a lot of money into the place. They have an above ground pool with lots of toys in it, nets and game things, tiki torches, swings, etc. It's like a mini Disney World. But I haven't seen anyone using it.
BTW #2. There's a rabbit that comes out about 6 each evening, and eats my grass. It used to run away when I came out. Now, it just keeps munching away, almost saying, " Oh, gawd, it's you, again."
 
I got to clean out my shed. I have a large, clunky old air conditioner that almost worked when I put in the shed-10 years ago. The thing weighs a ton and a 1/2. But I tell myself it would hold my shed down if a tornado happened by, so I keep it. I have three or four weed whackers, but only one has all its parts. Of course, everyone has a 6 x 4 foot topographical map of Panama. It looks like there's one of those electric oven things, back there. Archeologists have told me that way in the back of the shed, they've uncovered evidence of a Stone Age dwelling.
 
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