Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Dead rat, black snake asleep, and too much darn rain, and now people are paying more to suntan artificially!

What do any of these things have in common?
Not a thing!
But we, here, in our little world have been brushed by the fact that we have had these things in our life or at least they have metaphorically touched us in some way.

How would you like to go out onto your patio and find a dead rat?
Yikes I hear you all saying and a BIG FAT YUCK!
Well, when you live near the water this little creature happens to be a big fact in your life.
After waiting for nature to take its course with encouraging black snakes to remain with our fine snake like habitat, even our snake crossing sign, our yard is snake friendly, and we were thrilled to see those snake eggs on our western courtyard cement floor…the abundance of rats was far from curtailing in spite of our snake population increasing and so by logic alone we had to do something… and so rat poison/bait was utilized nightly and by morning daily had been going for the last few weeks! No rats had been seen alive or dead any longer but the bait was always gone, and so it stands to reason that sooner or later this dead rat on the patio would eventually be there, here or somewhere, huh?

The lazy sleeping snake in the shed was a happy sign for Hubby and me too and it did disappear into the rear of the shed when Hubby went in to get the shovel to dispose of the rat and then bleach the patio floor and the shovel both!
Disinfecting is very important since they are disgusting vermin, which do carry disease and that is why you also must not allow your dog or any household pets near them.
I know I know everyone is saying that’s what cats are for!
No, not really if those loving cats come in contact with your children and your child sleeps with that cat or kisses that little Kitty!
Think about that for a second?

Now the rain situation, we have been overly fortunate with the quantity of moisture that has befallen on us this month of July; we are only six days into the month and have received more than half of our usual allotment for this month.
Odd how now that we have too much, but actually logically they are saying that we no longer can water only one day a week… with all this rain we are now able to water twice a week!
But why would anyone want or need to; didn’t we just learn we have had too much of that wet stuff fall already?
Talk about logic?
Listen folks it’s when we have no rain that we need and want to water, right?
But then we have no reserves and so we can’t, got that folks? Make sense to me, huh?

On to the suntan issue we here in the Sunshine State have people who feel our normal sunshiny days are not quite enough for them, and even on the most sunniest you will find many in those artificial sun tanning salons that have popped up all over the country and even here in suniland country!
Not even the skin cancer warnings have deterred these people who feel the need to burnish their epidermis to a bronze beyond nature’s possibilities!
Consequently one of our new laws that went into effect on July first was a ten percent tax on tanning!
I think it falls under another sin tax.
Oddly enough they removed the law of needing a license to fish off of the land or a dock in fresh or salt water…actually, one doesn’t have anything do with the other but I did find both rather interesting, didn’t you?

Far as my day went personally… I think this weather created a sleeping sickness in me for all day long I have been napping and Hubby would come and wake me with fear of me not being able to sleep through tonight.
I suppose he has a point but I tell you I am pooped and nothing is making any sense to me why I am so very, very tired, although every time I look any of these things up it all seems to come back to the MS, just when I think I got it, understanding why all these weird symptoms are happening to me… another one comes up.
Although to be honest I do know that being tired this tired was one of the many. I just don’t get this exhausted that often, I think it’s because I have not been in the pool now for over a week due to that skin thing on my back from too much sun. Well, now would be a good time to go in the pool, no sun now, just lots of clouds and a cold rain, but nah, its sort of stems back to that being able to water now, it’s not logical, right?

On that confused note of nonsense I will bid you all a very good night and ask you to count those blessings and we will too!

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