Our Drought

It has been so dry here. The grass is crispy, the trees are losing their leaves and I am praying that no one gets stupid with matches. I am watering the trees but it has not seemed to help. I was using the sprinkler but now I am just using water directly from the hose at the roots of the trees. I hope they are just going into emergency distress and defoliating not dying.

I hobbled back to the back yard to have a look at a cross rail to the fence that needed to be put back into the post. We have the plastic fencing and I think since Dewey is still a stud colt, I need to make sure he has no escape routes. So anyway I grab the cross rail and see something move inside. A bright green tree frog has decided that this is a good cool place to hang. I decide to let him have his home and I will put the cross rail back later.

Soon Dewey was at the fence wanting attention. Daisy came out to herd him and Gatsby was hanging around being a golden retriever, not bred for intelligence. Daisy and Dewey played a bit and I looked over to see Gatsby eating cherry tomatoes off the plant. Just a little snack before dinner.

The main vegetable garden is dead but the plants that I put in the regular flower beds get watered by our sprinkler system. So the peppers and tomatoes are thriving. I just need to pick them once in awhile.

I am going to give the lawn a good "rip" tomorrow. The blades on the rider mower are not quite sharp enough to actually cut. We need to take the deck off and take it in the have the blades sharpened. We could just take the deck off but that may cause WWIII trying t get it back on.

Some planet must be in retrograde

This has been a tough summer for most of my friends. Injuries to humans and pets, money troubles, not getting "sure-thing" jobs, break-ups and fights. Something powerful be in retrograde. I thought perhaps Saturn but on further inspection, I saw that is is actually Neptune and Pluto. But Saturn is the big nasty planet according to astrological sources. I do wish I had an idea.

Who knows? I am an Aries with a Cancer moon. That give me my domestic edge. Rising sign is Leo which I would think would give me strength and self confidence. My other match-ups are Venus/Aries, Mercury/Aries, Mars/Virgo, Jupiter/Taurus, Saturn/Pisces, Uranus/Virgo, Neptune/Scorpio and Pluto/Virgo. Now really, I have no idea what any of that means. If anyone has a clue, I would love enlightenment.

View from the couch...squash bug is finally off the screen on the porch. No grasshoppers either. I think our fat lizards are getting some good eats. The lemon trees are thriving on the porch since I remember to water them there and the grasshoppers cannot eat the leaves. I had to wipe all the scale off the lime tree. That seems to have revived it a little bit. Someday I would like to plant them outside but for now I htink the pots are best.

I did see one of our roadrunners with a snake in his mouth yesterday morning. I hope it was a copperhead baby not a simple garden snake. I have not seen any deer lately. Wonder if the neighborhood cougar has been eating them or if they simply at staying closer to the river.

The grass is crunchy. I am having my sister move the sprinkler around the trees so they can have a drink. I am worried that the foundation of the house is going to crack with how dry it has been, especially the new addition. Even the sprinklers don't seem to be putting out as much water as I thought would keep the lawn green. I wish I could check them all but that is a bit too much mobility for me at this point, our garage where the controls are is like an obstacle course. More on the garage later....I shudder thinking about it.