More Bits and Pieces

• The weather is better today. The temperature is back in the 80s and the humidity is a bit lower. Mowing was a more unpleasant task than usual this week. The humidity does me in quickly. I took three days to mow the front yard this week instead of my usual two. I finished the front and did a bit of the back this morning. Just the side and the rest of the back to go. But that will hold until Monday.


• The water is running on the flower beds. We are having very hit-or-miss thunderstorms. They have missed the hollow every time this week. However, this is only the second time I have watered this summer.


• Early Sunday morning is my time to deadhead the flowers and pull weeds. I love that time outside because it is so quiet. I can listen to the birds and the creeks. The neighbors are not leaving for work, so it is rare that even a car comes by to disturb the quiet. For me, this is better than a church anytime. Several years ago I wrote about this after spending a spring Sunday outside. I used the form of a church bulletin. It was a coding exercise for an XHTML/CSS class.


• I decided to junk the digital scrapbooking materials subdomain of my website. I hadn't added anything to it in a couple of years because uploading on my pokey dialup was such a pain. I considered revamping it and adding new stuff with my faster connection, but I just wasn't inspired to create kits. When I scrap, I start with the pictures and design papers and elements to fit them. To heck with designing for someone else who can't even be bothered to say thank you. I had a couple dozen comments after thousands of downloads.


• I finished Miss Julia Hits the Road last night. This is a book in the series by Ann B. Ross that I wrote about a few weeks ago. It is laugh-out-loud funny. Image a group of "women of quality", aka straight-laced and of a certain age (sixtyish), putting on pants and riding motorcycles. The mystery in this book is even thinner than usual, and not a dead body in sight. All the same, it was a fun read.