Cell Phone Pics

It’s been so crazy, I ran out of pictures.  I am pretty much working, doing chores, and doing things for the soap room.  That’s my whole life.  Add horrible weather on Saturday afternoon, and I have nothing for pictures, so I went for the only ones left–my cell phone pictures from the last week or so.  I take an occasional picture on my way to and from work.

Sunrise one morning.

Turkeys on my way home

They were just south of my property.

Sunrise the next morning.

I have to take pictures of my evening knitting and finished projects to share with my mom.

I always have some cat supervising me. This evening it was Tiger.

the finished headband

Because I’m in the soap room, I have a lot of pictures I take to share on Facebook; although, I don’t get around to sharing most of them.

toddler hat

My calendar arrived, and I got my note cards restocked (new ones will be here soon!), and my dad’s shelves are now out there.

I haven’t even hardly had time to cook a meal, let alone be creative and try new things.  The only new recipe I’ve tried in ages is chick pea nuggets.  I might have to make a few adjustments and try again, but it wasn’t too bad.

I am really excited with my pomegranate seed experiment.  I’m up to five little tree seedlings in an aquarium in my kitchen.

five of them!

I have no idea what I’m going to do if they all live or if more come up also.

Finally, there’s animal pictures on my phone too–lots of cats.

Some Miss Thing has reached her teenage behaviors (Rocky isn’t amused)

She keeps dumping toys in the water bucket.

Salem napping on the clothes I wore out to milk and was going to put back on after work.

Salem loves Sky!

I finally saw 2TC come into heat; since I had my phone I took the picture in case I forgot to write the date in my records.

Hopefully, today was better for getting outside to take pictures.  If not, tomorrow will be a post of nothing but words.

Heat

Well, we made progress!  This is the drought monitor that was released last Thursday before our rains.  We were still in a moderate drought.

You might remember that I shared I was lucky enough to be in a small band of heavy rain.

Well, this week’s drought monitor shows a small area that is pretty much where that massive rain fell is back to just being abnormally dry.  Of course, there’s just a tiny band of moderate drought separating me from the northwest half of the county that is still in severe drought.  But I am so grateful that we are currently just dry.

I don’t know if it will last or not.  Because today we’re starting a several day streak of crazy high temperatures for this time of year.  The next couple of days are supposed to be even hotter. (By the way, this is my new indoor/outdoor thermometer since the siding crew broke my old one.)

Everyone is hot.  The only good part about it is that we are not as humid as we would be in real summer.

Luckily, Cutie isn’t swelling up.

Maybeline eating in the evening.

And the sun sets sooner.

I hope the beans will be harvested soon.

But I really am ready for fall to come and stay.

Done With Summer

I am so over this summer.  It just needs to end.

Trace and one of her boys (I can’t tell them apart anymore)

Sunday was hot, but everyone seemed to handle it well.

Antigone in the shade

I was impressed with Odie.  It makes me wonder if she wasn’t somewhat struggling with the air quality issues also.

Maybeline and Odie

I did give Pretzel a dose of Banamine because her lungs sounded a bit rough, but she was better when it cooled down.

Pretzel in pasture

Monday, she didn’t.  She was panting again, so I moved her into the garage.

enjoying the fan

Same with Athena.  She was panting, and it took her a long time for her breathing to settle down when I put her in the garage.

easier to eat when it’s not so hot

Since Tuesday was also supposed to be really hot, I decided to open the door to the soap room, cool it down and just leave them in there.

Dolly in the milk room eating; Pretzel and Athena in the garage

That made me feel better when I had to go back to work.

Pretzel and Athena

My birds are still doing well despite the heat.  They like to hang out under the giant button weeds.

the two brown leghorns

I also gave them a treat of old zucchini.

Dominique hen

Seriously ready for this heat to be gone until next year.