Summer Day Five: Saving a Hive

I don't want to talk about my morning, but this afternoon, I went into crazy person mode and scrubbed the bathrooms, did all the laundry, swept, mopped and mowed.  Then I showered and after that changed out all the bedding and got going on on getting that washed.

We mapped out the yard and left a big swath of clover in bloom for the bees, we will mow that next week and leave another section to grow and so on.  When I came in with my haul of blackberries, I had to step carefully to avoid stepping on bees!  yay! 

The butterfly bush is full on blooming and my roses are putting on their third show of the year.  I am happy to be able to provide so much foraging for the wild bees.

Puppy Fort! 

Surprise 4 o'clocks.  There are only 6 in bloom this afternoon.

Rose of Sharon, one of the 2 most useless plants.  The other being a crepe Myrtle. 
Sorry if your name is Sharon or Myrtle, your mom should have tried harder. 
Not that I have any room to talk, my name is awful and was last popular back in 1942.
I thought it came to pass in the days of Ahasarus.  Which is my favorite joke, but no one ever gets it.

Soon my very favorite flower will be in bloom and will keep me company until the frosts!

Cloverfield!
Seriously, who thought that made a good monster movie title?

Summer Day Four: Waiting Some More

  Went to get my new hose put on and it did not work.  She's having to order the more expensive option and it will be in in a few days.  *sigh*

Hung out with my father all day, we had lunch-the man had NEVER been to Chick-Fil-A before.  HOW?  I got him set back up with his Kindle to download books, but I am planning to buy him a Nook ASAP.  Kindle is CRAP.  It's too difficult by a margin of about 90%, you have to log on to the library site, select your book, click to check it out, then it reroute through another site that sends you to Amazon where you have to log in to actually download it and then it MAY go to the Kindle, it may download onto your computer and you have to plug in the Kindle and transfer the file manually.  Daddy is 74, that's too many steps-not because he's not intelligent, but because he's flat out unfamiliar with computers and it's not something he's ever done before.  He can't remember the steps.  With the Nook, I tap on the library app, tap on the book I want, tap download and it's on there.  His Kindle, you have to use an arrow button to navigate and then click when you get where you are going.  It takes me 10 minutes to remember how to work it.  It's not intuitive in the least.

He gave Jake his Harley jacket:

Jake loves it and is mad that it is summer and he can't wear it everywhere.

Found out my brother's wife's daughter from a previous marriage, so technically my niece, is in hospice and has been given a short time to live.  She has lived her whole life with a genetic abnormality (I know there is a better way to word that...), it's not unexpected, but it still is unfair.  No one should have to go through losing a child and no person should have to shoulder dying so young.

We got our 'Cops on Top' banner and will be leading the team to the highest point in the state to honor fallen police officers, it's going on across the country.  The team so far is us, as no actual police officers ever stepped forward to participate and none of our friends have opted to join us. 

Matt's camera is indeed dead, so he has been going NON STOP about camera options.  I mean NON STOP.  NON STOP.  He can go on for 3-4 hours at a time, with websites and stats and I honestly have never seen him research anything like he has been his next camera purchase.  I am nuts already.  OH: Update, he used the Vitality points to buy a new one.  It's red.  Now he's obsessed that he's going to find some feature he hates and keeps saying, "I bought a RED camera."  I will be glad when this whole "I took ALL my electronics in a canoe" thing is behind us.  He finally admitted it was a dumb idea, so there's that...

All By

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Matt's off this week, flying around increasing his carbon footprint and trying to undo caloric business luncheons and ice cream dinners by sitting in a sauna.
I have been home eating mango licorice and watching movies like 2-Headed Shark Attack.

Today, I had 2 baths and spent the bulk of the afternoon in footed pajamas.
Yesterday, I hung out at the local video store and chatted with the owner for an hour, mainly about protein-based carpet stains.  Then I bought corn pads at the Dollar General because I gouged holes in the bottom of my foot trying to dislodge a splinter.  And the hole in the corn pads fits over the holes in my feet.  It looks like tiny toddler toilet seats are covering my foot.

I have taken 12 pictures.  One of my steering wheel.

I will share three.  They are all of Small Dog wanting to know where her Daddy is.

He's north of the Mason-Dixon Line, Zeppie.  In A Place with Yankees.

Yankees are delicious

 I spent a while yesterday trying to get Ben to promise he would never move out, but he dodged me until I finally gave up.  I have no idea what I will do with a whole day in front of me and no one to make noise nearby until Matt gets home.

I may have to get...a job.  Or else all of my blog posts will have various shots of various pets and my mad ramblings about the amount of time needed to soak dried beans

Michelle has decided to hike the Appalachian Trail with me.  This can only have interesting results, it will end one of two ways.  A bestselling book or a murder.  Possibly both, they do have paper in prison.

I measured Ben today and he is exactly as tall as me.  I remember when Jake was exactly as tall as me, but not Chan.  She shot up so fast, it was probably only a 10 minute window.  I am thinking Ben will hit 6 feet before he's done growing.

In the meantime, Matt will be home tomorrow and I will be able to get more seaweed at the Asian market while I am out in town.  A happy ending.