Wasting time

5:21pm & here I am posting a blog instead of doing what I should be doing. You know...HOUSEWORK. Lara & the children will be here in the morning & I am so excited to see them but my house is not ready. Things that she says don't worry about, I still worry about. Obviously not enough to get to taking care of them. A lot of that is because I have things that need to be put away somewhere but I don't have anywhere to put them. No, I can't throw them in the trash. They are very important, don't ya know, so important that I keep breaking that only touch something once rule and move them from this spot to that spot & usually end up dumping as much as I can into a storage container to get to after they leave. Let's see, some of the stuff has probably been dumped so many times it would like to scream for me to throw it in the trash so it can get some rest. *shrug* Okay, I am publishing this post & then I am going to act like I have some energy & accomplish something ...really, I am. Bye now.

The 3rd of June

Hey, speaking of the 3rd of June.... Wasn't it the 3rd of June, another sleepy,dusty, delta day that Billy Joe McAlister jumped off the Tallahatchie bridge? I have been sort of confused by the words in that song. Accordingly, she was out chopping cotton?? Does that mean she was chopping the old cotton stalks from the previous year...early June would be too early for cotton to be coming in. Wouldn't it? And isn't hay usually baled in the fall?
I know the question we are to ponder is WHY Billy Joe jumped off the bridge not why the others were doing what they were doing, when they were doing it. But it just seems the timing is off or is it me that is off??? Ummmm, or maybe both???

Too Hot Already!!!

The 3rd of June & it is already in the 80's headed for the 90's. I don't know why I am surprised because we had some hot, hot days back in what is officially called winter.
Global warming?? Definitely. Last Monday driving from Missouri to Tennessee, using the handy, dandy on-board therometer, I watched the temp. go from the 80's in the developed areas down to the low to mid 70's in the rural areas. As soon as we got close to Nashville where the trees, grass, & other vegetation have been replaced with cement & blacktop right back into the 80's we went. With in a few miles.
Come on, why do we have to have hundreds of buildings and parking lots being built while we have plenty of empty buildings & unused parking lots right next to the new construction??? If you don't like the layout why not tear those down & rebuild on that site instead of destroying the green that remains?