I Have a Lot of Thoughts, and Unfortunately for My Keyboard, I Typed Them All Out

It made it up to 95° today, but I'm hopeful tomorrow won't be as hot.
We had a good storm come through tonight with a lot of rain.
Hopefully that'll finally cool things down.

I Didn’t Order July, I Ordered September

I'm glad to see the reading list's back to working.
I've got a sneaky suspicion that Blogger was testing the waters to see if people still blogged.
I wonder how many of us bloggers sent a report in to tell them it was down.
Hopefully enough that they will realize that we are still an important and valuable community.

The Only One Who Remembers the Start

My heart isn't really with blogging.

The news about my cousin has hit so hard, I really don't know why it has.

I've not seen her since, oh, I guess 2022 or so.
Before that, it had been years and years and years since we'd seen each other.

When Life Delivers a Gut Punch

I'm going to switch things up and not do a normal post.
My heart's broken and I'm just not in the mood to write a “this is what I did today” type post.

My body feels like a house I no longer know how to live in

Badger had her medicine follow-up today.
We were early, but despite being a Monday, which is usually their busiest day, we were taken right in.
This was a talking visit, not a check-up visit, so we were pretty much in and out.

Bed and I have become one today.

I don't know what time Cowboy came to bed, well after midnight though.
We'd lost Carl as usual.
That cat is the best hider ever.

Dinosaurs, coffee, gems, and retail therapy. Celebrating another year of her.

We pulled out of the driveway at 10:30 a.m. and didn't get back home until 3:35 p.m.
That’s a very long day.

Tourist traffic wasn't terrible this weekend.
I guess most of the tourists with kids have gone back to their home states now that school has started.
Actually, crowds weren’t a problem anywhere today.

Holding space for remembrance today while celebrating 24 years of you. Happy Birthday!

I'm in HTML hades, and of course the poor blog is back private.
I asked Blogger why I'm not seeing a current blog post in my reading list.
They give you this and that and the other solution.
Ok, I tried it all, still not updating.
So the last thing was to check your HTML code.
You may have extra HTML clogging up or blocking your feed.
Uh huh.
Alright then.

"Patriot Day: Remembering the Lives Lost, Honoring the Heroes of 9/11"

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“All the noise in my brain. I clamp it to the page so it will be still.” — Barbara Kingsolver

Blogs aren't being updated in my reading list.
I have to actually go to the blogs I read to see if they're posting or not.
When I comment, I have to go to Firefox because Edge insists on only using my Google name, not my Blogger name.
The comment box is distorted and very hard to use.
It just seems to me that Blogger is making things harder, making it more difficult to blog.

Nobody tells you how quiet and perfect 5 AM really is

I was up and in the living room at 5:30 this morning.
That's too early even for me.

Carl Cat likes to hide at night, knowing that we can never find him, and he won't have to go to the laundry room.
Then he'll sneak out and try to snuggle all night.
I could tolerate snuggling, but then he tries to groom you.
Oh yeah, he'll scratch at your head and chew on your hair, and that's weird.

Labor Day brings a bittersweet goodbye to summer days

Labor Day has come and gone.
We'll be heading into those cold, dark, depressing days soon.

I have nothing to write.
I don't think I've seen anything but the house since Saturday.
I get so bored, I go outside and walk around the yard a time or two.

With respect and honor for those whose daily labor shapes the life of our communities