Lou Ferrigno Is Right
It’s funny, this old weather. How in two days it can go from cold and rainy to supersunny and so hot that I can barely do anything but lounge in the sun like a penguin on the run.
If only I had something cold to drink. But we all know that it is against my religious beliefs to store drinkable liquids in my apartment. I will just have to go thirsty.
I did get something to drink at my parents’ house, though. Went for dinner. A nice ham. Good times. The second CD of the Highwaymen present is not working. I will have to make a new one. Repairman Plume. I am much like Jack from Lost. I will fix you. At this point I would like to abandon consequent thoughts and shut down the writing process for today. Amen.
July 26th, 2008 at 2:36
It has been hot, hot, hot here. We’ve been working outside in the sun again. No shade for the wicked, I guess.
We got a lot of work done today on Ye Olde House (in same town as Ye Olde Church). It was supposed to rain today, but didn’t. Very hot and humid though. Hot enough to melt a goat or a penguin!
I didn’t see the hummingbirds today either. Maybe too hot for them, too! I’ve named them “Zip” and “Squeak” (for obvious reasons). They sure get around to all the flowering plants in the area.
We do get to hear birds all day, which is nice. Cardinals, cuckoos, chickadees, robins, wrens, purple martins, and many more.
There is an eastern phoebe nesting on the front porch at Ye Olde House. She is up on one of the posts, high up under the porch roof. Sometimes I can walk up on the porch and go in the house and she doesn’t fly away.
She has built a beautiful nest of grasses and moss on the outside. She’s very quiet. Not at all like a robin mama who would just a soon dive bomb you as move off the nest when you get near her.
The man next door got in a weed-whacking mode yesterday, and I swear, he whacked weeds for hours. Nasty little buzzing motor on the thing. I finally put in ear plugs before I started screaming.
Painting is usually such a quiet job (until the weed-whackers or leaf blowers start).
July 27th, 2008 at 23:46
Debster – Hot, hot, hot here too. Although probably not as hot as where you are. Still I’m glad I don’t have to work outside in the sunshine too much. Shade and cool drinks for me please!
Do hummingbirds hum? And if they hum out of tune do you correct them?
You hear more birds than i have seen (or heard) all my life I think.
July 28th, 2008 at 23:27
Hummingbirds make a high-pitched squeaking noise when they get excited (over food or another hummingbird).
Maybe it’s their wings that make a small humming noise when they fly.