just stuff

My apologies for the unsettling image of the snapping turtle. It didn't occur to me that some people might find it unpleasant. It didn't bother me and I got to thinking about it. I certainly wouldn't have posted an image of a dead cat or dog or any mammal with it guts hanging out. So why didn't the turtle hit that note with me? It probably came up out of the East Bernard river via Peach Creek or Baughman Slough, both of which are drainage tributaries to the river and there's a drainage slough that cuts diagonally through the neighborhood, cuts through the property behind the shop to the big culverts under road that our streets dead end into and then cuts across the corn/cotton field and into Baughman Slough. I've heard that this is part of Peach Creek, or was, before the Army Corp of Engineers redirected it. I could be wrong about this. My neighbor Gary tells me that another neighbor found the turtle in his yard and they moved it to the ditch at my end of the street where it climbed back out and was purposely run over. Had to be on purpose because it was in the grass on the side of the street. People suck. Fucking fuckers.

Well, the sun finally came out and we've had three days in a row with no rain and temps soaring into the high 80s. The ground is so saturated that there is still water in some ditches and the mosquitoes are still just as bad and I finally broke down and bought one of those home yard foggers you hook up to your hose but I haven't used it yet. Maybe today.

My arm/shoulder is almost completely pain free. I have no idea why. Monday at yoga we did a pose that put pressure on the shoulder and Tuesday morning it felt a lot better and even popped a little bit so I added that to my daily routine and Wednesday we did it again and during the night the shoulder gave a big pop at one point when I was shifting my sleeping position. Thursday morning and today it feels pretty damn good so I guess whatever was getting pinched or compressed has been relieved. Just a little residual soreness. I hope.

I don't really have much to report, was out of pocket and mind for two days.

I picked the big butternut squash yesterday and noticed another vine was putting on a third one. This has grown with absolutely no help from me from seeds I tossed in the compost pile.

And last night Minnie had me laughing so hard. There's a pillow on the couch and she burrowed into the pillowcase and then she had the pillow jumping around while she tried to get out. She finally wormed her way out and was sitting there looking at me with just her head looking over the pillow and when I tried to take a picture she turned her head refusing to look at me no matter how much I coaxed.

She was not amused.