WHEN PHEEBS AND I WERE DOING OUR MORNING WALKS HERE

Tuesday evening was still feeling muggy to me as I drove out to my walking spot.  Due to the heavy cloud cover, I knew there wouldn't be a sunset, but I needed a walk.  The sky was very dark to the west, and while walking, I heard the first low rumble of distant thunder.  I finished my walk under the ominous cloud cover and decided to head for home and close the shed doors, and put my gardening tools away.  It wasn't long before the first patters of rain belched out of the sky with the stern backing of thunder and lightning.  It was a good rain that continued into the night, and I knew that area farmers would be pleased to see their crops being watered after a long dry spell.  Back out to my walking road again this morning, the day's heat and humidity were already ramping up, but I was not deterred, and completed my walk under mainly cloudy skies with a few traveling sun splashes making their way across the green summer landscape.  A year ago at this time, when Pheebs and I were doing our morning walks here, we were accompanied each morning by scores of yellow Sulphur Butterflies.  And, so it is this year as well.  How nice it is walking along the road with butterflies swirling all about.  I wish Pheebs were here to see them again.

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 THESE TWO WERE FLITTERING AND TWIRLING ABOUT....THE YELLOW FELLOW IS A SULPHUR BUTTERFLY BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE WHITE ONE WAS

 DITCH FLOWERS ALONG MY WALKING ROAD

 CHICORY FLOWERS ALONG THE EDGE OF A BEANFIELD

 HAD THIS GRASSHOPPER NOT LANDED ON THE ROAD IN FRONT OF ME I WOULD NEVER HAVE SEEN IT

 LOOKING SOUTH ALONG MY WALKING ROAD WITH ROLLS OF BALED STRAW ON MY LEFT AND SUBIE DOWN THE ROAD

 LOOKING NORTH ALONG MY WALKING ROAD

 MOODY CLOUDS THIS MORNING

Home again, and despite the humidity, I hooked up my utility trailer and hauled a load of yard waste down to the Park's recycling area.  

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There are bare spots in my grass project near the carport, so this afternoon, under hot sunny skies, using peat moss and topsoil, I re-seeded all of those spots and watered everything again.  It would have been much simpler to have simply re-sodded this area.  Oh well.  After that, I was done for the day and had to head inside and toss myself into the shower to wash all the sweaty, sticky stuff off me.  What an awful thing it is to feel sweaty and sticky, but what a wondrous feeling to be all squeaky clean again. 

 FROM THIS PERSPECTIVE IT LOOKS LIKE MY GRASS IS THICK AND GREEN

 BUT FROM THIS OVERHEAD VIEW THAT IS NOT THE CASE

 HERE IS MY TOP SOIL AND PEAT MOSS, RE-SEEDING EFFORT

 I PLAN TO PLANT GRASS SEED HERE AS WELL

Al's Music Box:))  Annie's Song by John Denver.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A little boy walked up to home plate in an empty baseball field, with his bat and ball in hand. As he threw the ball up in the air, he proclaimed, "I am the greatest ball player ever!" He swung with all his might, but missed. He did the same thing and missed again. He picked up the ball, tossed it up one more time, said "I am the greatest ball player in the world!" Then he swung and missed again. "Wow!" he said. "What a great pitcher!"

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Man says to God: "God, why did you make woman so beautiful?" God says: "So you would love her." "But God," the man says, "why did you make her so dumb?" God says: "So she would love you."

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Whenever you feel sad, just remember that somewhere in this world, there's an idiot pulling a door that says “push”

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Harry and Esther are out shopping one morning when Esther says, "Darling, it's my mother's birthday tomorrow. What shall we buy for her? She said she would like something electric."
Harry replies, "How about a chair?"

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