Baymule’s Journal

[Baymule]

My washing machine started working again! I don't know why, but I'll take it. So I washed 2 loads and hung them out, nice and sunny. I went to the Ladies lunch yesterday and when I left, it started pouring rain. It rained on me all the way to Apple Springs, 9 miles from home. I got to the church, jumped in the mule and floored it for home. I took clothes in, it was starting to sprinkle and the bottom fell out. I caught a brief clear spot before the next deluge, so I ran out, fed dogs and sheep. I had on a CLEAN T-shirt, well that didn't last long. Patches thought I must have feed in an empty bucket and tried climbing up my back to get it. Muddy ewe prints on my shirt.

Today is the Blueberry Festival in Nacogdoches, normally this time of year it's scorching hot and dry. Today more storms and downpours are expected and tomorrow too. And it's scorching hot. I think I'll go. What the heck, I'm used to being rained on.

 

[farmerjan]

Use a capital L and lowercase a to avoid confusion! La.

LA is the official abbreviation for Louisiana... Like CT of Connecticut... TX for Texas... so I get their using LA... Just that LA has been associated with CA for so long...

 

[Finnie]

LA is the official abbreviation for Louisiana... Like CT of Connecticut... TX for Texas... so I get their using LA... Just that LA has been associated with CA for so long...

That’s what I was going to say! To avoid confusion, there should be periods in the Los Angeles abbreviation. (L.A.) But no one’s going to do that. Too hard to type.

 

[SageHill]

LA is the official abbreviation for Louisiana... Like CT of Connecticut... TX for Texas... so I get their using LA... Just that LA has been associated with CA for so long...

And for those of us who live close to Lost Angels (appropriate now) it's the first thing that comes to mind.

 

[Baymule]

The Blueberry festival was no big deal. Just lots of carnival and fair type food vendors. Lots of craft vendors, nothing i wanted or needed.
Sunday I brought my car home. To celebrate, it rained. I think it might have been a quarter inch, but gheesh! It seems like it will never stop. Of course when it does stop, it really will stop and then we'll be crying for rain.

 

[farmerjan]

True, you hate to complain about rain... BUT.... a little moderation would sure go a LOOOONNNGGG way to making things much more workable.
We are also getting WAY more rain than is typical... had an inch the first weekend of June, over 2 inches the last 2 days... raining/showers last night and more forecast for the next several days. I am afraid that when the spigot gets turned off it is going to really dry up... This after an extremely over wet and chillier May... and very dry and hotter than normal before that in April....
Can't change or control it so gotta work with/around it.

 

[Mini Horses]

Weather screwy here, too. Rains all week, really heavy last night -- thunder & all -- upper 80s to mid 90s all week coming & dry. Deworm kids after wrangling to catch them. Fast little rascals! Out early to be done by mid day. I don't enjoy "up early" anymore.

 

[Baymule]

Cant cut hay when it rains every day.
New want to move in neighbors can't get their modular home delivered until it dries up, road gets graded and their driveway gets repaired.
I look at the grass glistening with wet dew and wonder just how far up the grass blades worm larva can go in extreme wetness like this?

 

[Baymule]

The road got graded yesterday! This is good for new neighbors wanting to get their modular home delivered! Contractor is supposed to be out today to repair the deep ruts in their driveway. More sunshine today, more drying up, probably delivery on Friday.

DD’s dogs are driving me nuts, Carson is horrified and terrified of Sammy the half pug that belongs to oldest granddaughter. Right now the 3 goons are in the front yard, Carson is at large out the back door. I’m going to enjoy my coffee before feeding the 3. Sammy is cute, loves to play and gets into everything. He loves to play tug with his toys and figured out quickly that if he brought it to me, I’d play tug.

Carson got so upset that he crawled his humongous self up in my recliner and turned around. I thought the recliner was going to fall over backwards. In this picture, the back half of his body is piled upon the back of the recliner, next to my head. Pleading eyes are saying, “Please make it STOP.”

And where is Sammy? Trying to get in the recliner too! Little terrorist.

Looking so innocent.

 

[Baymule]

Those are Carson’s toys behind Sammy. I took them away and put them where Sammy can’t reach them. Carson’s life has been violated.