it's summertime and the livin' is...

hot, humid, and sweaty. It’s brutally hot out there, heat index over 100 so beyond going out and checking for green beans and tomatoes or pulling up the obvious crabgrass in the daylily bed or taking some pictures, I’m staying indoors. So instead i got sweaty vacuuming the entire house Wednesday because apparently I’m in no hurry to work on the shadow box project because I haven’t done anything since I transferred the drawings to watercolor paper. I keep thinking I need to walk around to the other street and take close up pictures of the leaves on the cottonwood tree there but Minnie has not turned that way lately when we go for our walks. She gets to decide if we turn left or right at the end of the driveway since these walks are primarily for her. 

I did finish the book I was reading. Yoga class Wednesday night, SHARE and yoga class yesterday. SHARE was another busy day coupled with it being a food delivery day from the regional food bank along with the stuff that arrives from Walmart, HEB, and the Dollar Store. More tomatoes so I got enough at the end of the day to make another batch of tomato sauce. It did finally slow down a bit after the first couple of hours. I even got to sit down for a while. We had three Es though (7 and up) which has never happened in all the years I’ve volunteered there, rarely two but usually just one and most weeks not even one.

The rest of this post is just going to be miscellaneous pictures because I have nothing else of interest to report.

Here’s how the tomato sauce went: after roasting, after blending, after containing, about 4 1/2 cups in all.

Minnie laying next to me in bed the other night.

The red crinum lilies are blooming. These were in the yard of the city house when I bought it 50 years ago. When we sold the house I dug up every one and brought them out here.

More green beans. They bloomed and produced and my neighbor pulled up all his when he had picked all they produced. I meant to pull mine up but never got around to it and they started blooming and producing again. I'm getting a good handful about every other day.

Another day lily.

The bees were swarming this magnolia bloom. It looked like they were puling the stamens off one at a time.

I have more but this is long enough.