Muggy

There's not a lot to report on this week.

My visit with the doc was fine.  He decided to stop having me go every two weeks for blood draws, so that was nice.  I will now just go on the day before my monthly appointments.

We caught a break with the weather this week.  There were these odd pop up storms every night/early morning that pushed cooler air ahead of them, and kept that "heat dome" in Texas, so that we never saw those predicted highs of 103-107.

The humidity was brutal, of course, so the afternoon heat index was 105 and above, but it would have been 115 if the temps had gone as high as previously predicted.

Dave and I successfully got out and walked in the early morning on three days last week. The other two, it was raining.

It was 80 degrees every time, and extremely muggy, but it was so nice to get out and get our steps taken!  We then walked on my morning breaks at 9:30 as well.... even though it was starting to get hot by then.

Muggy.

What does "muggy" come from??  I never thought about it before.  It's a very odd word...

My little container garden is suddenly THRIVING.... the plants obviously prefer rain water to city water...that's the only thing I can think of that's been different!  

My two cucumbers, and the little watermelons, are getting bigger, and we ate three of the cherry tomatoes!

There were some unwanted insect eggs on one of the last of the squash plant's leaves, so I finally pulled those plants out and discarded them.  SO far, no sign of bugs on the cukes, and now the cukes can have their entire containers for root expansion.

I added some fresh soil to all of the pots yesterday, and am hoping that will continue this happy plant trend.

We had to hire our crew to mow the back yard yesterday.  He charged us $60 this time just to mow the back!  It used to be $40 for the front AND back... yikes... so we really don't want to have to do that again.  

The grass just grew so fast and thick with the rain, and we didn't get it mowed last weekend because it never dried out.

We plan to mow again on about Wednesday this week, and then again on the weekend, to stay ahead of it.

Dave mowed out front yesterday, and I got all of my indoor chores and laundry done.  

Then, last night, a friend (who recently lost her mother) came over.  

She walked up the driveway, though the back gate, and into the back yard.  We sat on our patio at a safe distance, and we had a beer and conversation until after dark.   She needed some friend time, and SO DID I!

It was weird to not have her in the house, but she has been around her daughters, who have been around others...so she has potentially been exposed to the virus.  

We DID let her pass through the house...all of us wearing masks... to get to her car, so she could see how big Frankie is getting.   On the day we brought him home, she met us at the house when we arrived with him, she was so excited, so she remembers how tiny he was.

There is nothing on the agenda for today, so I really hope to get a guitar tuned up and try to get back into practicing that on the daily.  I'm coming out of my funk, and am accepting that this virus is only going to get worse, and we are going to be in isolation indefinitely.

I need to do stuff that feeds my soul.  Playing my guitars helps with that.

We are also going to see if we can figure out somewhere to go at dusk tonight so we can see our first glimpse of the comet!

OH, and sitting in the hot tub last night, I saw a HUGE, bright meteor.  It made me remember watching the Perseids every summer with my dad, as the katy  dids sang...