I am blogging about 23 hours and 1.6 inches of rain after yesterday!!! The rain started early evening and went well into the night. I opened our bedroom window when I went to bed so that I could hear the rain. WAY WAY back on the farm I could lie in bed and hear the rain on the roof as the bedroom ceiling consisted of rafters and nails underneath the shingles! No finished ceiling! Of course the down side of that was in the winter the cold air seemed to creep into the bedroom like a silent thief and would surround you and chill you to the bone as you watched your breath float into the still air. In the summer the relentless heat would charge through the thinly covered roof and turn the room into a low level summer water less hot tub! The bedroom was comfortable for about a week in the spring and a week in the fall!!!
No work and no bike yesterday as we spent the day at tennis and then a bit of shopping. It was a strange feeling when we were at tennis. Watching Phil and sitting with tennis friends from the winter I was transferred to Florida and into tennis almost as if I was sitting on a magic carpet. Then we arrived home to Niles Ave and as I entered the house, projects stared at me with menacing eyes and I was once again in real life.
I am guessing that as the rain heads east and the warm air visits from the west in the days ahead I might have to just mow the lawn 24/7! And the garden may take on an even more jungle like look. Terry peeled and froze some tomatoes yesterday. Those darn cucumbers grow along the fence and into some grass that is difficult to cut so every once in a while I spie one that has managed to hide for too long. Yesterday I found FOUR that if I froze them I could use them as missiles of destruction. I may engage brother Dave in making a device to propel them into space! Well to be truthful we may find a way to eat them and I would say each one would be a meal for two.
With all the distractions over the last while my "to do list" has been neglected terribly and today I get to neglect it again😎.
I had a realization today about myself. I have never been able to spell very well. Spell check is a god send but lately things have been so bad that when I click on spell check my word is so far from accurate that spell check comes up with nothing close. That may mean I am the worst of the worst in the spelling challenge.
Sometimes I just sit down and wonder what in the world God was thinking about for me. I think about sister Helen who looked like a movie star in her wedding picture. You have brother Dave who can take any old piece of wood and shape and make it into a work of art. You have sister Joan who has a successful marriage of 56 years, is on top of everything family that you can think of and has led a very exciting fruitful life. Then there is me whose claim to fame is I can fool spell check! I may have to change my life around. I just had a thought. My claim to fame is I have more grand children than anyone in the family AND nobody can say they are advancing the "Lee" name on to the next generation except ME😇. I might also say that my life makes me closer to being an angel than any of my siblings!!! They may dispute that! Really as I grow into old age and have conversations with my siblings they have experienced things I didn't even know existed. I had better stop before I get myself in trouble or maybe it is too late. Maybe, just maybe, I can get away with words as they know I love them very much. They also know that I not only respect them but am so proud of each of them and what they have done with their lives.
No this is getting too long and my FP is short so will stop.
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