LAZY WITH A CAPITAL L

Blogging has been on my mind. I want to post more often because the innards of my roasted brain contain ideas. My attitude has been poor, to say the least, and I can’t even bring myself to comment on blogs I love to read. For the past six weeks, I’ve been lazy about everything I do at work and home. I have been yearning to walk and get out.

Reason: 32 days of record heat with the average temperature at about 96 - (no, I think 99) with five days just under 104. It’s been the hottest and driest August here since 1867, when record-keeping began. I should not let the weather affect me but it does. It has become an ugly obsession.

Now there is good news to report.

We had three brief rain showers this week! Mandatory water restrictions are being enforced because we are ten inches below normal rainfall for the year. I can use my garden hose on Thursdays and Sundays only, and the rule will last for quite a while.

More good news! The weekend has been cool! 80’s!

Summertime

and the livin’ is easy.

Fish are jumpin’…

I fed them today. They made it through August and look just fine.

I went outside this morning and enjoyed watching Chloe & Bella charge the pigeons.

Here’s a pigeon bottom. There were twenty up there giving me the one-eyed stare through the skylight.

Every day I see Mourning Doves, Cardinals, Nuthatches, Wrens, Chickadees, Titmice, Brown Thrashers, House Finches, Mockingbirds, Hummingbirds, and Goldfinches. I’ve seen them through the window.

I had ten minutes to spare before the nail salon opened on Saturday morning and it was cool, dark, cloudy, and refreshing. A pond is nearby so I parked near it. I had less than twenty seconds to get a shot of two birds who were a half of a city block away and that one shot was all I could get before they fled. I guess this is a Great White Egret and I don’t have a clue as to the bird in the tree. Can anyone help? (click to enlarge the photos)

I leafed through a field guide on the way to the optical store with Michael. It was useless to me due to the bad photo above. We bought new prescription eyeglasses and prescription sunglasses. I was in stitches watching him try on glasses fit for the Nutty Professor! We are wearing our sunglasses already and I love mine. My new eyeglasses will be ready in two weeks and they are not the usual oval frames I wear. They are very sexy… and rectangular.

I enjoyed finding a small yellow weed living under the Canna.

My bargain butterfly bush was near death when I brought it home and needed constant attention during the last two weeks. It’s doing well!

Two dozen dragonflies pose for me. I’ve ignored them for so long...

Low maintenance. I love them. I’m showing life here – not the August death and ruin all around.

This photo was taken last night at the little fall. I didn’t see the spider on the lower right. I could have zoomed in. Oh, well.

Today we felt a glorious 82 degrees at noon. This is the pond where I saw the two mystery birds who got away. North Carolina is wonderful. The foliage is abundant and this pond is located next to a grocery store and shopping strip mall. That's typical here. I hadn’t stopped by in two long months.

Made my day. Awwww… a-haw-haw-haw… I counted ten at the turtle party.

Mary is happy, enjoying outdoors, and smiling again.

She drove away from the pond in her sexy black car. She wore her sexy black sunglasses, sexy pink lipstick, and opened the windows and sunroof with air conditioning on. Her hair was flying. She sang to songs of the eighties loud on the radio - Paula Abdul, Barry White, and Donna Summer, while on her way to her friends at Wild Birds Unlimited. What a day.

Sexy? Not really - but a girl can dream, can't she?