That I can accomplish absolutely nothing on a daily basis.

Yet, I don’t sit more than a few minutes at a time.

I am constantly on the move.

I only get about 4 or 5 hours of sleep a night.

Exhaustion is my constant companion.

Today, the laundry basket made it to the top of the basement steps…never did get it down to the washer.

Nope, because as I headed for the basement door, Gavin decided he needed to go out. When I brought him in, Lucy had to go.

Then, The Curmudgeon needed this and wanted that, and by the time I thought about taking the laundry down to the basement to wash it, it was time to get started on dinner.

Most days are another version of this.

Sigh… A beach, some peace and quiet, all alone even if only for a few days…

Weather is improving.

Cooler temperatures are creeping in and soon we can turn off the AC at night.

Wish we could open the house in the daytime but we have one of those neighbors who thinks everyone wants to hear his bass booming, window rattling loud music all the time. I like rock and roll, I am not, in the least, fond of his style of music.

Poor Lucy got into some mischief and ate a strap off a small flashlight.

Rather than wait and see if it passed and risking the possibility of her having some real trouble with it later, we gave her some peroxide to get her to throw it up.

She was not happy about it for two reasons.

1. She’d just had her dinner and it meant no food until breakfast then.
2. Like old Malcolm–she does NOT like to vomit. She clamps her jaws shut to try to stop it and will fight it for as long as she can almost passing out in the process (just like Malcolm).

Unhappily for her, we had success. Happily for us, the strap came up and we won’t have to worry about an emergency vet trip later.

Dogs….we love them fiercely.

Isn’t it morning yet? I’m starbin!!!

*Flops into chair.*

I wonder why that song keeps running through my head, no, not really. It is so steamy hot outside, I’d swear I was in the swamp lands of Florida or Louisiana.

The real feel temperature today was 105 degrees add to that 85% humidity and you have a recipe for disaster.

The Curmudgeon is, at this time, forbidden to go outside even with his ice vest on.

The dogs don’t want to be outside any longer than necessary.

I feel like I can’t breathe out there.

I’d be happier next to water.

Oh, never download the Zen Koi game on your phone if you don’t want a total time suck in your life.

Yeah, I did.

http://zenkoigame.com/

However, it’s that or listen to the constant boom, boom, rattle of my nasty neighbor’s music.

The Curmudgeon calls the police, they do nothing. The worst thing is hearing The Curmudgeon whine about it all the time.

Not only do I have the stress of unwanted noise but I have to listen to him too.

I can’t concentrate on anything. I’m tired of being stressed out and unhappy all the time.

Today’s Tee shirt

Please don’t.

Yeah, I know you think they are so cute and all but…

You don’t live here, you just come here and feed them.

It’s not your tomatoes or your eggplants they ruin.

They don’t chew through your garbage can lids and scatter your garbage everywhere.

They don’t drop garbage they scavenge (chicken and pork bones) in your yard for your dogs to get hold of, nope, but we have to watch our dogs every second because you feed the squirrels.

Yes, it is your fault.

You see because you feed them all winter and summer they breed like crazy and neither they nor their young move on to greener pastures. No, they hang around here and cause mass destruction.

They’ve chewed all the wiring on our outdoor lights and the neighbors’ lighting. After about the fourth ruined set of lights here, I quit buying more.

We no longer sit outside because they’ve ruined our yard furniture. And because of all the holes they dug in the yard, The Curmudgeon doesn’t get to enjoy his mobility cart much.

So the next time you plan to feed the squirrels…please make other plans and leave them be, they don’t need your help.

They are more like this

Than this

More like this

Than this

Yeah, mostly it’s been shut off. LOL!

To say that I am not a phone person, is saying it mildly.

I made sure I had it fully charged.

Had the alarm set for 10 a.m. to try it out. (Unfortunately I was up long before it went off, compliments of Lucy.) It did surprise The Curmudgeon when it went off and I was outside with Gavin. Hehehe. He had no idea how to turn it off and being a smart man did not touch the phone.

Yeah, he knew better than to touch my phone after the great computer screw up.