Day 140
I was feeling great empathy for my friends in CO today as the mercury topped 103 degrees. Too hot by any standards. Just when I was thanking my lucky stars that we were supposed to be cooler this next week, the weather came on and forecast 105 for the Chicago area this Thursday. I shouldn’t count my chickens before they are hatched … or whatever that saying is. In this case they will be hard-boiled in no time.
Why is it that 3 children in the light of day shouting to each other and playing sound gleeful and when the same children, doing the same things, at 11pm sound like a bunch of wild banshees?
I only buy caramel apples and those Drumstick ice cream cones for the NUTS. Why don’t I just buy nuts?
I talked “someone” down off a ledge yesterday. Well, that someone was a baby squirrel and it was more like a limb than a ledge, but I still felt good doing it. It was in distress (where was that mother?!) and I got him back to the main trunk and his nest by making my famous squirrel noises. I thought Gertie was going to go through the fence she was so excited!
The Domino Effect is in full swing every time I turn around. Tonight’s discovery was that the old shelves in the closet were loose and falling down. I took them out and found massive holes in the walls. Need to repair them before I put up new shelves … and need to paint them something but have no matching paint so do I just repaint the whole damn closet? or just say the patched holes will have to be WHITE when everything else is off white cuz it’s only a closet? Either way is not great – I don’t want to paint the closet and yet I know if I don’t it will bug me!
The food in food magazines looks 100x better than the food I make from the same recipe that is photographed. Hmmm.
Tonight when unscrewing bolts and anchors and long screws from the old shelves my mind wandered to, of all places, Denmark. I find it interesting, when you are doing something mindless, where your mind takes you. Tonight mine took me to the Little Mermaid statue and the most gorgeous food shop along the water. WHY would my mind go THERE of all places and all things to think about? I find it fascinating.
How can the blind and deaf dog know where I am almost all the time and bark at airplanes? She is amazing. Sense of smell? Does she feel the vibrations? What and how?
Nat King Cole and Michael Bublé can easily reduce me to tears if I let them.
I heard tonight that the fireflies are early this year and that they usually last a month. Best news of the day!