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Crazy from the heat
Jul. 12th, 2007 07:05 amI was given a tea float the other day.
I ordered a combo meal (sandwich, fries, and a drink) and added a float on for dessert. I was asked what drink I wanted and I said, "Tea." thinking that it was the drink that came with the meal. Nope. I got my sandwich, the fries, and a tea with a half a glass of ice cream substitute in it. Things were so higgledy-piggledy, I thought they had just forgotten my drink and they didn't charge me for it, so I said what the heck, I'll do without tea. It didn't take long to realize something was wrong. At first I thought the root beer was just flat. Then I realized it wasn't root beer at all. Bleah.
It is sooo hot... The weatherman is using words like 'oppressive'. All laundry has stopped because the heat generated by the dryer is enough to drive our present family of seven clean out of the house. Livestock that usually roams and grazes is camped out in the shade in a swarm of flies...except for one red cow down the road which we think may be dead. Then again, it's the only one without its own little storm of flies, so maybe it's on to something.
And we have raccoons. Big, bickery, cat-terrorizing raccoons. They woke me up three times last night with all their squalling. At least I'm not on the side of the house with the motion-sensitive light. I'm told it was off and on like a strobe throughout the great catfood caper. Dad threw a shoe at the ringleader. It wasn't impressed.
And I may have to look into bird watching. Or at least identifying. We are crawling with birds we've never seen around here before. Bluebirds especially. They never used to be up here! We had cardinals and barn swallows, goldfinches, crows and chickadees, and the occasional mandatory robin. Now we have two different kinds of woodpeckers, bluebirds galore, some kind of beetle-glossy grackle, screech owls, wild turkeys, red-tailed hawks, and there seem to be a lot more cardinals than usual too. One thing we don't have that we used to are bobwhites. I kinda miss the sound they'd make. Haven't heard it in years.
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cloverbutt is gonna be here today. She's bringing her fella in. That puts our headcount to nine here at the Hotel Del Crabtree. Seven adults, two babies, two cats, three ceiling fans, one electric fan, no ac at all, and a mountain full of deranged raccoons. Oh, and a skunk that made its presence known just this morning. cloverbutt's boy is in for a treat!
P.S. The cow wasn't dead after all.
I ordered a combo meal (sandwich, fries, and a drink) and added a float on for dessert. I was asked what drink I wanted and I said, "Tea." thinking that it was the drink that came with the meal. Nope. I got my sandwich, the fries, and a tea with a half a glass of ice cream substitute in it. Things were so higgledy-piggledy, I thought they had just forgotten my drink and they didn't charge me for it, so I said what the heck, I'll do without tea. It didn't take long to realize something was wrong. At first I thought the root beer was just flat. Then I realized it wasn't root beer at all. Bleah.
It is sooo hot... The weatherman is using words like 'oppressive'. All laundry has stopped because the heat generated by the dryer is enough to drive our present family of seven clean out of the house. Livestock that usually roams and grazes is camped out in the shade in a swarm of flies...except for one red cow down the road which we think may be dead. Then again, it's the only one without its own little storm of flies, so maybe it's on to something.
And we have raccoons. Big, bickery, cat-terrorizing raccoons. They woke me up three times last night with all their squalling. At least I'm not on the side of the house with the motion-sensitive light. I'm told it was off and on like a strobe throughout the great catfood caper. Dad threw a shoe at the ringleader. It wasn't impressed.
And I may have to look into bird watching. Or at least identifying. We are crawling with birds we've never seen around here before. Bluebirds especially. They never used to be up here! We had cardinals and barn swallows, goldfinches, crows and chickadees, and the occasional mandatory robin. Now we have two different kinds of woodpeckers, bluebirds galore, some kind of beetle-glossy grackle, screech owls, wild turkeys, red-tailed hawks, and there seem to be a lot more cardinals than usual too. One thing we don't have that we used to are bobwhites. I kinda miss the sound they'd make. Haven't heard it in years.
Back to the good news,
cloverbutt is gonna be here today. She's bringing her fella in. That puts our headcount to nine here at the Hotel Del Crabtree. Seven adults, two babies, two cats, three ceiling fans, one electric fan, no ac at all, and a mountain full of deranged raccoons. Oh, and a skunk that made its presence known just this morning. cloverbutt's boy is in for a treat!P.S. The cow wasn't dead after all.
