Today was our fifth day of weather in the mid-90's. The Beast made a short effort to try mowing the front lawn but was driven inside by the heat. He doesn't do heat well. He also hit the front gate with the mower (it's a riding mower, remember) and bent one of the hinges. That required a trip to Lowes and the purchase of a new hinge. The Beast was able to prop the gate so that he could remove the broken hinge and replace it with almost not trouble. It's a heavy gate so it wasn't as simple as you might think. That wood is HEAVY.
But he fixed the gate and then had to come into the house and take a nap. Between the effort of propping the gate up and replacing the bent hinge along with the heat, it took a great deal out of him. After that, he had the energy to run to Publix to get us some Chicago Italian bread, some crispy buns and a crispy Hoagie roll. We then had French dip for our lunch. I made up the au jus for us and put it in two custard cups.
That was the end of the Beast's activities for the day and I picked up the slack with cleaning up the kitchen and the dining room table. He pretty much spent the rest of the afternoon just reading from his Bible, preparing for going to church later. He took his shower, got dressed and went to church. When he got home, we ate some chicken noodle soup along with the Chicago Italian bread for our late dinner. I made it when we both agreed that we weren't very hungry (heat does that to us at times). I put all the remaining dishes, pots and silverware into the dishwasher and got it ready to go. I told the Beast to make sure to put his coffee cup in it when he was done and turn on the dishwasher. I then retired to my computer room to play my Jewel Quest game for a while.
I had spent a couple hours on Vegas World, working on collecting gems and hoping my friend, Carol, might be well enough to join me. But she never showed up. I talked with a couple of my friends on that site (ones that I have known almost two years) and caught up with some of the gossip that always seems to be going around on every site I have ever been on. At least the ones where they have chat available that isn't limited to game chats. Like a lobby area where you don't have to be playing a game and can chat with all your *friends* online.
I spoke briefly (on the phone) with my son, Mustachio, who was just heading for lunch at the time. At least he is well but busy as hell. He works hard physically and often comes home exhausted. Poor baby falls asleep for an hour or so and then gets up to make himself some dinner before he even decides if he has the energy to get online. I often don't get on my YIM either because I have fallen asleep after dinner or because I am playing my Jewel Quest game. If I have my YIM up, someone trying to chat with me will knock me out of my game and that can be a disaster at times if they do it while I am in the midst of the scoring sections. It's a timed game and I can lose a turn that way.
The Princess finally put up pictures of Gunner enjoying his birthday cake (not from the party but from his REAL birthday that they celebrated). I just love how enthusiastic babies always are when they can just grab the cake and shovel it in the mouths (or at least, they get MOST of it IN their mouths). Their faces and hands sure are a mess, aren't they? ROFLMAO! Gunner was no exception even at the party! It was just so adorable. I loved it.
We are expecting thunderstorms here tomorrow along with another day of heat. I hate those kind of days because that's what drives tornadoes and we DO get those here. I will be on edge most of the time once the storm clouds roll in. I watch a lot of the *Tornado Alley* episodes on the Weather Channel and the storm chasers to know more about tornado formation than I really want to know. Having once gone through a tornado that tore the roof off over us, I am not in a mood to have a return event. I will be in Dennis and Di's safe room lickety split if the sirens go off. Trust me!
Time to get this posted and select the *Hint for the day*. Love you all. I hope your have a fantastic Hump Day. Be good. Be safe. Drive carefully. ***Hugs***
HINT: Forget expensive plant food for your house plants. Just feed them flat club soda periodically and they should thrive. The minerals in club soda are beneficial to plants.
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