Just in passing…

• The prettiest hollyhock this year:

• The weather is giving me a headache again today.
• Still doing the 10,000 steps thing — but not really doing it. The closest I have come to it was 9000 something. That’s a lotta steps…
• Had a pretty good 4th of July. Saw family. Took a couple walks. Ate good food — did I tell you that my mom makes the best baked beans on the planet and several other solar systems?
• Had a blowout on the highway going home. (There’s always drama — now a little action, eh?) Don’t know what I hit, but it took a slice out of the rear passenger side tire. I read the instruction book; DH and H did all the heavy labor. Half hour later we were back on the road, our doughnut tire “good for 3000 miles at 60 mph”
• Went to R-town and bought new tires the next day.
• The Japanese beetles have arrived for their annual visit.
• Puppy pick up day is August 9…whee! Sophie and her sister are such cuties.
• Southern Cousin and I have more in common than is to be believed. Except comedies.
• Of all the muzak I get inflicted with at work, I had no idea that the stuff I liked was by Coldplay and Duran Duran. Yeah…that rock right there is where I have been living.
• Our zucchini look pathetic. I am sensing crop failure.
• The tomatoes looks extremely promising. Bumper crop.
• …so I just might go to the theatre to watch the X-files movie. Five-buck club.
• I am reading Martin Dugard’s Training Ground. You should too.
• Might be a while before our porch gets done. Got the permit though.