Today was an odd sort of day. Yes, we were threatened by rain most of today but none actually fell. So my hubby was able to complete the raised beds for our new additional veggie gardens, with the second one being 2.5’x 20’, allowing us nearly 100 square feet of planting room. Are we now considered farmers? Kidding, of course not; the crops aren’t even in yet. (LOL)
I know most people have been hearing how deluged with rain this state of Florida has been and in some areas even with flooding, but not here. The middle and northern parts of our state have had the flooding and nearly thirty inches of rain; I guess their drought is finally over. They had to declare a state of emergency. Hope their cleanup goes swiftly. Here, nearly 6 hours from there, we have had many days of light to on occasion heavier rain, but no flooding what-so-ever, thankfully! So when we heard all the noise and the skies even darkened we thought for sure today would be another wet one, but it was not to be.
A week from Monday is when our rainy/hurricane season begins, the night Conan takes over for Jay, you know on the Tonight Show, that’s June first.
At one point my husband fooled me by putting the outside thermometer in the sun; it’s the kind where we also have an interior one that gives us those readings, as well as humidity, etc. Well, it read, in the sun, 107 degrees Fahrenheit, would you believe?
My darling was trying to show me his martyr-ism by working out in that ungodly temperature. He has this weird ability to cope so well with the heat, much more than I anyway! (But MS does not allow extremes of either temp to feel comfortable.) Anyway, in the shade it was considerably lower, the temperature, in the low nineties but oddly enough the humidity was only 40%, a dry heat like they say in Arizona.
It was sleeping weather. And so I did nap.
But I also created today.
I saw a commercial for a spa, and it had a sign that said one word on the wall of the massage room, ‘RELAX’, and that sounded perfect for a sign in our guest room, and so I decided I would make one and I did.
My hubby had some piece of the cedar fence cut offs left so I request a 4”X10” piece that he would rough up for me to give it a weathered appearance. I had inch and half wooden letters left from my previous arts and crafts projects, and as long as I still had enough to spell out the word, relax, I was in business! And I did. I also have many acrylic paints in my crafty area out in a drawer in the garage. So I made a pale blue for the letters and painted the rough hewed wooden plaque in a gray to make it look like a piece of drift wood and high lighted it with white for a more realistic appeal, wood glued the letters on and it came out just as I had hoped and I imagined it to be!
Yesterday, I had called the library to get my name on a waiting list for one of my favorite author’s newest book that is out, and I also asked if they take magazines. They don’t but the adjacent used bookstore does and all profits go back to the library, and so I packed up my older magazines and they are now in the car to go there the next time we are going in that direction. It felt good to unclutter my magazine ladder rack.
On that noteworthy note, hah, I will bid you all a good night and to all count those blessings I will too!
Speaking My Mind is about: Tobi, who is a middle aged, no, oh all right a slightly over the hill woman with all the imperfections that go with that, and this concerns her daily life's perceptions and experiences.
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