The last few days have slipped by with nothing notable to write about. The weather has continued to be summer like with hot days and sultry nights. We’ve had a few raindrops but the earth is still dry.
The other day we took the long way home from an outing to a nearby little town so that we could see how the crops are doing… dismal. I wonder what sorts of yields there will be. I’ve never seen the corn looking so short and sparse.
I finished the reorg of the dresser in the bathroom and am pleased with the result - no more chaos :-) (well, only a bit). If the zeal continues I may take a few steps into my closet.
The dogs have been slightly lethargic for the most part - a trip outside leaves us all feeling drained as it’s been so hot out. Adia did go crazy yesterday afternoon - racing and zooming - I had to cover her with a damp towel when she got inside as she was panting so hard. The next few days look like they’ll be a bit cooler.
We’ve suspected for a while that Spike is losing his vision - doing some online doctoring it looks like we could be right. His eyes have a silver sheen to the pupil that suggests Progressive retinal atrophy. The end result will be blindness. He sometimes seems like he’s getting some dementia too - yesterday he jumped up to grab a cheezie out of my hand - this is 100% out of character for him. He’s shown some other behavior oddities as well - I’m hoping that I’m wrong and that he’s just being naughty. He’s not too out of it to know it’s getting close to bedtime and that if he could just get Carm to take him outside he’d get a bedtime snack of raw chicken hearts when he came back inside!
We just put up a rain gauge - we’ll be able to see how much it actually rains. There were a few types to choose from: a simple tube with markings on it; or! the full monty electronic remote version that even dumped the water automagically. We got the simple tube - we think we can walk out to the deck to read the level and dump the water ourselves. For a gagetteer like myself the temptation to go big was strong! And if I could have automated the entries to load into my database, well that would have been awesome ;-)
Headline tonight: 3,961,203 cases with 143,826 deaths in the US. There are a total of 111,124 (109,669 yesterday) cases of Covid-19 in Canada today, with 8,858 (8,839 yesterday) deaths today.
“There's no radar image for a water crisis. No storm surges, no debris fields - the Tap-Out is as silent as cancer. There's nothing to see, and so the news is treating it like a sidebar.”
~Jarrod Shusterman
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