Tuesday, June 29, 2021

HOT


It's the last day of June and it's hotter than the hottest part of hell. What is it going to do in August? This horrible heat is worse than the pandemic. Just find a cool place and hibernate until the snow falls. I think they predicted 115 degrees for today.
My neighbor across the street put an air cooler, air conditioner, or whatever it is in a window. I hope it works. Now, I hear that the businesses that sell them are sold out.  Mine is still working full time. I guess it'll shoot the electric bill up a few notches. I have my electricity set up to average it out and take out automatically. 

How could I have anything to write about, I just sit here and talk to the four walls. They talk back to me too. They tell me it isn't their fault. 
I play my Ukulele. Ha-Ha, that's a joke. I can play something that sounds like Red River Valley. I get on a roll at times and it actually sounds good, but I have to hold my mouth a certain way to get it right. Hey, it's something to do.
Chris and I have lost all interest in going anywhere, Their car doesn't have AC. Kenny said the temperature was 166 degrees in it. We just have to learn to be tough. Easier said than done. 







Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Summer Time


Sometimes people with pets put clothes on them and the animal doesn't seem to mind at all. I have a cat and she has a mind of her own. You're not going to put a sweater or hat on her or even a collar. She wears a beautiful fur coat which she keeps as clean as possible. Just a few days ago she coughed up enough hairballs to make another coat. Her hair is floating around me all the time, but so far I haven't coughed up any hairballs. 

The heat is terrible, but I have a very good air conditioner and it is working non stop. In the Fall I will have some maintenance done. There are a lot of cottonwood trees and they are very bad for the A/C.  I have it cleaned in the Fall. So far it's doing a fine job. 

I've been hungry for Cottage Cheese. It has to be 4% and small curd. Lite Cottage cheese is much better for you, but at my age the sky is the limit. I've been here long enough so I tend to throw all caution to the wind, I eat what I enjoy. 
I wish I had a car  so when I want something I could go get it. I don't cook much anymore because I always do something to screw it up. I give up. Someone bought me some Black Angus hamburger patties. They make the most delicious hamburger I ever had. I guess they are pre seasoned because I didn't add salt or anything. I didn't even have any lettuce but I have Walla  Walla sweet onions and a slice of tomato and mayo. Anyway, I didn't screw up the hamburger.

This is probably the most boring post of all time. My cat is so bored and keeps getting in my face and meowing. She thinks a few treats will solve the problem. 

This is Aniyah, my great-great granddaughter
and her mother, Wendy.

Well, goodbye and I will be back if anything exciting happens.

Saturday, June 19, 2021

Happy Pappy Day

Everything seems to move along at a snails pace. I guess I'm in no hurry. I'm so far over the hill now and I'm still not there yet. 
The Yakima Valley is having a heat wave and it'll be a happy day when it leaves. I don't go out very often and I have A/C and I do love the longer days, but it could cool off a little.
I have lost interest in crocheting and knitting so here I sit. I also don't care about reading anymore. So I twiddle my thumbs. Maybe I could enter a thumb twiddling contest, I'm getting good at it. 
I don't even have a neighbor to visit with. I'm probably the oldest one on the block. At least I have that Honor. But no one knows about it but me. 
I see a neighbor across the street that goes outside to smoke. § Well, more puffs to him, been there done that.
Happy Fathers day to all the fathers out there. 
This is a picture of my Daddy ready for church. He was born in 1900. He also did some preaching in his day. He just enjoyed it.





Sunday, June 13, 2021

Mind Boring

Today is exactly the same as yesterday and the day before that and the day before that. I am so bored I may take up smoking again and I am not going outside to smoke. It's my house and it's my smoke. Well, of course I'm kidding. If I inhaled a puff of smoke I would probably die. Suicide by Smoking the Obituary would read.
Everyone would gasp and say 'How could she afford those cigarettes' .
I turned the oven on and totally forgot about it. I finally remembered and put a tiny Pizza in it, this time I set the timer. I eat when I get hungry. 
One thing about living alone, you can do as you please. 
Chris, my best friend, is in Florida visiting family and I miss her because we do lunch once a week and that is a big deal for me and my dull life. She is returning Wednesday I think. She has been gone for two weeks. 
I had a leak in an irrigation pipe and thankfully I have a son that worked in the field and knows about everything there is to know about such things, He fixed it and put sealer on that had to dry for 24 hours before the water could be turned back on so since he lives in Moxee, my other son turned the water back on. You have to 
climb down in a window well and reach under the house to turn it on. It has nothing to do with my drinking water. I was able to do it myself until I was about eighty I had a little trouble getting out of the hole so I decided no more of that.

Well. I have turned into the born loser. The Pizza I mentioned was done beyond recognition so I fed it to the garbage can. The timer no longer works so I also fed it to the garbage can. I found a Chicken Pot Pie in the freezer so since the oven was already hot I put it in the oven and used another timer.   This timer is setting here by me and I can hear it ticking so I know it's working. Now, I have to wait  and hour before it's done. It'll be dinner hour before it gets done.

Since I live this boring, dull life I have nothing more to say. 





Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Celebrate the Years


My great grand son has his first birthday today, June 9th. My mother was born June 9th 1905. If she were living she would be happy to know he was born on her birthday. He lives in Tacoma and I live in Yakima so I won't be able to see him. They were over here a couple weeks ago so I saw him then. He was a little shy of me. I was a total stranger to him. 
I thought July the 4th was when we hear fireworks, but the past two nights they have Firework displays nearby. The first night when the first few bangs went off I thought someone was banging on my back door. Scared the bejeebers out of me. I soon realized what it was. Even Sassy cat was curious. Last night the same thing begin again. I live within yelling distance of a couple schools and that seemed to be the source of the noise. This is only the 9th of June. I'm not sure what the rush was about. If it happens again I'll know they aren't coming after me.