More of This and More of That…

• Y’all keep the Navaho Indian rain dances coming, or if your Christian then pray.  We’ve had a literal deluge of rain and thunderstorms lately and the grass is really growing fast which means much more business for me.  I’ve had two large lawns to mow these past few days – fifty more dollars for the coffers.  I don’t think I could stand another hot, dusty and rainless summer like we had last year. 
• Maggie's job as chief of backyard  security ended yesterday evening as she resigned effectively at midnight. She got the barkies one last time too many at such a late hour.  The dog door is getting locked until 7am every morning these days overnight.  “We’re closing down the kitchen for business for the night,” as my grandmother used to say. That always worried my brother when we were kids as there was no door to my grandmother’s kitchen
• As I was driving over to get my sodas this morning, I was listening to Edie Brickell's album Ghost of a Dog.  I hadn’t heard that album for years and it was like listening to it for the first time.  The CD has held up nicely over the years.
• I showed Helen she was on the internet using my iPad.  “Am I really on the internet??” she asked with a childlike innocence and exuberance. “I wish you would have taken a picture of me in my Sunday best!” Helen forlornly chimed in. “That makes me look fat!”