Heat

This constant heat takes something out of me, even though I spend most of my time inside in the air conditioning.  I feel absolutely uninspired to update my blog.  There's really nothing new to report; I spend a lot of time moving soaker hoses in the garden, and that's my main activity.  Exciting, right?  Cliff decided he didn't want to go to church today, so it's a day like any other.  I don't care for television evangelists, and it really isn't so much the preaching that I miss, it's the idea of seeing actual people from the community who are meeting for a common cause.  I need something once in a while to get me out of my natural hermit-like frame of mind.

Look, its eyes are open!  When I first opened the side door of the birdhouse, the babies were jammed against it and I thought a couple were going to fall out.  I may stop peeking in so often.  They will leave the nest at the age of sixteen to twenty-one days.  I sure hope Mama Kitty doesn't discover them while they are learning to fly.  You can find a bluebird timeline HERE.   
Our tomatoes are still few and far between; we have yet to eat a BLT sandwich, but we're enjoying a tomato a day in salads or just out-of-hand.  We have lots of cucumbers and zucchini, and the eggplants are coming on strong.  

  We have new neighbors in one of the foreclosed homes next door.  They are spending every weekend moment working on the house.  Yesterday they installed air conditioning; today they are re-roofing the house.  I haven't met them yet.  
The other vacant house will likely never be occupied, as it isn't fit for human habitation and really can't be fixed, even though it's an almost-new home.   
I can't come up with anything else, so I'll stop while I'm ahead.