the cat, the heat, the despicable

My visiting blogs has been sort of hit and miss depending on what time I drag myself out of bed and how busy I am but I try to catch up when I can. I had to do the week's grocery shop Monday as we were out of bread and stuff for lunch. Not sure how the timing got off as we can usually make it through Monday.

Sunday I filled five more molds, the crab and the four coral feet, so that leaves the top, the inlay, and the body of the box. I ran out of one color that I need for the top which I ordered yesterday. I could go ahead and fill the mold for the box or the inlay but I think I'll try and do some much needed housework until the frit comes.

So, Sunday morning when I went out to feed Lily I put her food on the deck instead of by the house where she had been hanging out. Later in the afternoon she was laying in the barn and after I gave her some good petting I walked away heading to the garage and into the house and she followed me and when I held the door open, she sauntered right in. She explored the whole house, I put some food down for her and she ate, and about an hour or so later I held the door open for her and she sauntered out.

Monday morning I decided I would only feed her in the house and when I went out she was waiting for me on the deck, followed me around to the garage and into the house where she stayed for about an hour and then went out. When I got back from yoga I called her and she came running, back in the house to eat and then showed no interest in going back out until we went to bed. This morning she came running when she heard me open the garage door and she came in to eat and found a spot under my work table about 3' away from where I sit where she curled up and went to sleep, showing no interest in going back out as I went in and out moving the sprinkler around.

She finally went out about 2 PM and came back in about an hour later making herself comfortable in Minnie's dog bed. So now I have to see about getting her spayed. I don't think think the name Lily suits her but I haven't come up with anything else yet.

Well, it looks like just about the whole world is experiencing our horrible heat. The cotton in the field at the end of my street looks terrible with swathes starting to turn brown. But of course all the climate change naysayer politicians are still unmoved to do the hard things that must be done for any hope of mitigating the warming planet. They just don't get that it's not just hotter temps but extreme weather and fires and stronger storms and rising tides and failing crops. Failing crops! No, these idiots are blocking laws that rein in emissions and help move us away from fossil fuels.

Speaking of which, gas here has dropped more than a dollar in the last month. After blaming Biden for months for the high price of gas, republicans are, of course, silent. Instead they have switched to their other bogeyman, the non-existent democrat 'open border' policy while they continue to block any and all popular legislation so as not to give Biden a win like the one that would bring manufacturing jobs back from China and lower our costs by strengthening supply chains. One politician, I can't remember who, actually tweeted that border patrol had confiscated X large amount of drugs as proof that Biden didn't care about illegals and drugs crossing over. Cited a drug seizure as proof the border policy wasn't working. Meanwhile Biden brokered a deal with Mexico to provide $1.5B to help maintain the integrity of the border through 'smart' border technology.

And then there's this...the Uvalde video footage from inside the school has been released and shows many police officers just hanging around in the hallways doing nothing with an editor's note...the sound of children screaming has been removed. Let that sink in. We can't hear it but they could.

To put a better finish on it, the night blooming cereus has put on a third flush of buds. I counted 17 this time.