just more stuff

A durantes long tail hanging out in the kitchen. I cupped it in my hands and released it outside.

A long tail, a sulfur, and a fritillary were flitting around the porter weed but none would stay still long enough for a picture.

Was that me just a mere month or so ago moaning about the heat, the long hot dry summer? Monday, as it turned out, I didn’t do a damn thing but sit on the couch under a blanket with the dog on one side and the cat on the other and a book, didn’t even go to yoga (I have several excuses lined up I told her). Well, I did go over and feed Lovey, Handsome, and Twin. So Monday. Remember I wrote that I had no complaints about the cold and wet? Tuesday was overcast, colder, wetter, rain off and on all day (and well into the night) with thunder and lightning and by nightfall I was over it! Wednesday was still overcast but no rain and warmer and still I accomplished nothing. Well, this time I did go to yoga class and glad I did. 

Walking around outside I noticed the fire ants wasted no time coming back up to the surface after two days of rain. They even climbed up the post and into the mailbox for Robin’s house though these are not fire ants, they’re too tiny for that.

I picked out the six largest bones from the owl bundle on Tuesday, took a picture, and did an image search. 

The All Knowing Oracle says they are the bones from a small bird. I did see a lot of ‘hairs’ that could have been strands of feathers off the shaft and small bits of black shiny things that could have been pieces of the shaft amongst the gray fluff. 

Today, Thursday (and Friday too!), the sun is shining, the sky is blue, the humidity is down, the birds are twittering, and all is right with my little world. I have some plants to dig up to share with a friend but it’s far too wet out there for that. It remains to be seen what I do with my day. I have a couple of errands. I need honey and I want to see if the book I ordered from the indy bookstore has come in. Well, I didn’t run my errands, will have to do that today, but I did cut all the dewberry vines out of the flower bed against the house on the south side.

Another interesting little tidbit from 1440…The National University of Singapore college of Design and Engineering has been developing Smart Clothes, a computer (for lack of a better term) touchscreen woven into your clothing that shows photos, answers phone calls, and plays videos among other things by engineering a flexible, wearable fiber, made up of 54 electronic fibers, that functions like a digital image pixel that can be woven into clothing to create a space on the user’s forearm that looks and functions like a smartphone screen. 

Democrats picked up another senate seat, this time Mississippi and we’re still waiting to hear about Alaska. Now begins the battle for Speaker of the House and Speaker of the Senate. Many of us feel that Jeffries and Schumer are too mired in the old guard, haven’t done enough the last two years to counter Trump (yes I know, didn’t have majorities), aren’t aggressive enough, and bought by AIPAC. We want leaders who are not beholden to Israel and who will take the fight directly to Trump instead of just ‘strongly worded’ letters.

Toad lilies.