Heat index values up to 113º, no breeze to speak of… it’s like a seafood boiler out. I mean, you wouldn’t need the pot. JK, no crabs were abused or experimented on. I suppose this is just fake global heating that Biden or Obama came up with to torture repugs. The hell on earth they created and deserve. In the near future, we’ll look back on this as a normal summer day.
It did conveniently t-storm early this morning, so I don’t have to water. Thoughtful of it. My brain is already a fried egg from walking outside for a minute. That leaves finding more indoor ways to earn my keep. Not that hard, since the rooms magically revert to disaster mode five minutes after I straighten them. But school starts August 25. And S will be spending more time at Mom’s, after she gets here for good tomorrow, which will relieve several situations.
I had a pretty good conversation with K/S today. We talked about some of the things stressing her out lately, which I could understand. Sometimes it’s hard to get an opportunity to talk with just one kid, without someone else’s melodrama or chaos going on around you. K/S and E are just verging on young adult, when you can have an intelligent conversation and get a glimpse of what they’re contending with. Y has not reached a stage where I can have any meaningful exchange at all, but I notice he’s like that to almost everyone, except his friends. They just stay in his room shrieking.
I’ve saved up a few photos, including one of what I thought was some red shrub, and now realize is a crepe myrtle, not a native, but pretty. I mostly like it for its botanical name, Lagerstroemia, which sounds like a beer.
My afternoon consisted of being useful running a prescription errand. On the way home I found the St. Louis library branch I’m supposed to go to, technically living not in WG. So now I have two library memberships.
Tomorrow I have another assignment, this time to take Y to and from his HS orientation, a momentous occasion. I wonder how he will adjust to HS. I think it will be good for him, like shocking a pool.
Can you find the dog lurking?
