I have a horrendous hangover.
Life looks a helluva lot better when I'm in the custody of inebriation.
I'm wholeheartedly indebted to the spirit of Dionysus which inspired me to learn how to make homemade wine.
I finally (finally) have a new computer keyboard, which will enable me to blog again.
I just heard two people applaud - -
or was it one? (there's an echo in the room)
Actually, I plan to discontinue my blog at the end of this year (Dec, 2020).
For me, blogging has become much more burdensome than pleasurable. It's no longer fun like it used to be.
The most popular blogs are those filled with infinite sunshine, overt optimism, unicorns, rainbows, cotton candy, saccharine fluff, and gorgeous photos taken with expensive cell phones.
Lately I'm most often in my Heathcliff Mode - brooding, deeply melancholic - teetering on the far edge of impending doom and inevitable extinction.
That doesn't play well with generic audiences.
August?
Gone already??
It was, for me, a miserable month:
A lightning strike on my property.
Relentlessly disabling health problems
(I'll spare you the details).
Endless endless rain.
Did I ever mention that Tennessee has more rain than the Vietnam monsoon season? It's been raining here for the past six months.
August is gnat season. This year worse than ever. Thousands and thousands of extremely aggressive gnats - breeding everywhere in the house. Getting in my food...and the cat's food. I have to cover my meals when I try to eat.....I keep an electric fan on the kitchen table, but even that doesn't dissuade them.
They crawl on me and buzz in my ears when I try to sleep.
I keep old bowls filled with vinegar in every room.
Disgusting - - but effective.
A mouse infestation. Mice are everywhere. My cats can't keep up with them. They eat my cat's food.
They nest in all my dresser drawers.
As fast as I clean the mouse crap out of one drawer - they move to the next.
In desperation, I've poured black pepper in the drawers.
Discovered a mouse in the bathroom. He ate half a bar of soap (no lie)!
Snakes, anyone? I won't mention the snakes outside that slither through the brush and mud.....
Hoards of coyotes - they've been coming around here frequently the past few nights. Screeching with diabolical glee at 2:00 a.m.
These are only a few unpleasant diversions around here.
I haven't mentioned any of my serious problems......
Front yard yesterday morning
Back yard
