After a long hot summer...

Today the temperature started out in the mid 50's and rose to the heat of the day to 83 degrees farenheit. The leaves have not started to change colors yet and are almost all green...but the summer was hot and dry and the leaves turned yellow and brown then in mid August it rained and the green came back. I planted a garden last March. Sonny did the tilling for me and I put in six tomato plants...and they made hundreds of tomatoes. Mike was making Salsa and Pico d' Gallo and putting it on everything he ate in addition to a slice or two of tomato...but then with the heat, the tomatoes, though still making, got smaller and smaller and finally in August turned red about the time that they were about a half inch in diameter. Since the rain, though, the plants seem to have come back, flowered and again I have lots and lots of tomatoes on the vines! I can't wait to see if they come back to the way they were in the spring before the winter weather comes.

Right now outside, it's a cool 78. We left our windows open all night last night, chilly though it was and open again most of the day. The breeze through the back door makes everything smell wonderful. I think the cool weather fresh air bug bit Sonny because he got up early (and I do mean EARLY. My clock said it was before six a.m.) and cooked Mexican breakfast burritos with chili meat, scrambled eggs and cheese for the 3 of us. Delicious. A wonderful way to start this day!! It went perfectly with a cup of coffee.

I talked IM to my dad today. He was gone for a good part of this past summer, traveling across this country with my oldest brother Gary and his wife Judy. Dad flew to Delaware the first week in July. The 3 Maggards together drove to Canada and to Minnesota and to Salina, Kansas in August and back to Trophy Club Texas then down to the Houston area and back up to be at the wedding of Gary's youngest Son in California. Justin and his new wife Valerie said their vows on September 10th and Dad got back home about the fifteenth and Gary and Judy stopped here at our house on the way home last week. Mike and I got to see all the pictures. Justin and Val made a beautiful couple and it was great to see recent pictures of their four other children with their families, especially my new nephews and nieces. What a wonderful trip it must have been. I have loved seeing the pictures!

Justin and Val said their vows on September 10


Later I talked on the phone to my daughter. Eva left me an IM asking me to give her a call because she'd lost her cell phone and needed it to ring so she could find it. When I talked to her she told me that she plans to go to Trophy Club to visit my Dad, maybe leaving for there early tomorrow morning.

Because the temperature was in the hundreds most days this past summer I seem to have stayed inside the house and I have not had much to write about in my blogging. Mostly I when I have been on my computer I have played games or chatted IM with my family, my father, my daughter, my cousin. I love being retired but sometimes for me to write my perspective down for someone else to read becomes boring and tedious. That's not what my blogging is all about. Better to not write down anything at all.

The Cat took over the computer chair.


There were some things going on. I renewed my driver's license and I voted at my local precinct. We paid our personal property taxes. We refinanced our house and changed our homeowners and auto insurance to a new company. I have a friend who is getting a divorce and I testified for her as a character witness. On Saturdays Mike and I have been driving around going to garage sales, looking at the scenery, getting lost then finding our way home again. Always it seems like there is something to get done.

Mike (if you remember he had surgery on his knee last March) has improved and his walking is almost back to normal. It IS back to normal if he is fresh, but when he gets a little tired or he stays on his leg too long he has a slight limp but I don't very often hear him complain about any pain.

The gentleman farmer, Mike is able to drive his tractor and to mow the lawn once again.

I heard from my adopted grandson today. Jason sent me a note to say he is living in Virginia going to an Army school there. And the good news is that his wife Kaili is pregnant. I am not sure about her due date, but he bragged to me that in two weeks he will go with her to find out the sex of the baby. It was really good to hear from him. I wrote to him regularly while he was working in the Army in Iraq but as soon as it was time for him to return to the US my writing lagged until today when I was surprised to see his name on the return address in my email.

And now that it is suppertime I am off to fix hamburgers for the three of us. The burgers we make here at home are so good that we seldom pick up any at the McDonalds or Burger King anymore. Even the burgers from our local cafes are not as good as the ones we make here at home. And since we bought a case of hamburger early last month and have it packaged in our freezer, we are able to eat plenty of burgers. Good thing we love them. Good thing we three think burgers are the perfect food to serve to company when someone comes to visit. Come over. You'll see.