9:12 am June 26, 2024 ---- Wednesday in These titles mean nothing.

First time this year I brought the computer - the new one - the old one suddenly said it was out of battery like it did the first time - meaning with no warning and while it was plugged into the wall. That sentence got away from me. Computer and I are on the deck. It’s a perfectly exquisite day except for the gnats and mosquitoes. Birds are singing… there is a little smoke coming from the trash pile… my plants are doing as well as can be expected. My at least twenty year old geranium - I bought it with my husband from a country greenhouse I never went back to. It’s kind of a viny plant with delicate orange flowers that the humming birds like. I have several pots of it buried in a very leaky blue enamel dishpan. There are also the purple leaved oxalis in the dishpan blooming little lavender blooms. The oxalis is younger than the geranium but it’s got to be ten years old. My other plants are just ok - well some are ok +.

As the news has been saying we had a good bit of rain in the last week or so. It washed fields but we had no flooding - not even from the big creek that comes from the town that seems to have more runoff every year due to house and business construction. They are trying to put in holding ponds but they are only partly effective. Though maybe they are effective because the water stayed in the creek and didn’t flood the fields. Either way it’s good to have rain - last year was so dry. I was not prepared to listen to how dry it is again this year.

I took some pictures at sunrise today. The sun comes up almost at its northern most place in the eastern sky. I love watching it move back and forth as the seasons push it along. Back when Joana and I were taking early morning walks there were times when I would be a mile and a half away from home when the sun came up. Jim and I and the dog have been doing some walking - we do it after we feed the calves - but nowhere near as far as Joana and I and yellow dog Gracie went. Time goes by. We live. We die.

I bought two more jars of grape jelly for the orioles. I have red headed woodpeckers scouting the yard. I should find out what they’d like to eat.

The mosquitoes are making my hands itchy. Guess I’ll go inside.

It’s a lovely perfect day here. I wish you all well - good weather and happiness and luck in all endeavors.