Thursday, May 24, 2012

Various musings and thoughts...

May 23, 20012

I woke this morning to warm winds blowing outside.  It is going to be a very hot day.  Already 75 degrees out.  I brewed my green tea, and immediately went outside and watered my pots of flowers in front, as well as my two tomato plants in back.  All of them were very thirsty.  I have one cherry tomato beginning to ripen.  How exciting.

Fat little lizards (or geckos) if you will, were happily running up and down the walls.  I stood at the sink and watched one who looked like it was doing push-ups for about thirty seconds, and darted down the other side of the wall.  I don't know if they are fat from eating flies that are in abundance as the berries on the ground spurt out their juices, or if I am looking at only female pregnant ones!

Because the temperature around here is supposed to reach one hundred, I have closed the windows, and the curtains on the eastern side of the house.  Thankfully the heat is dry not humid.  And the winds are gentle and steady.  

For the most part today I am staying inside.  There is one large fan that I can use if I need it.  When I wander up to Lowe's tomorrow or Friday, I am not only going to pick up a gallon of yellow paint, but I am also going to get the first of four ceiling fans.  The first will be for the kitchen. 

The winds have now picked up.  I can hear them as they come around the corners of the house. At 4PM, it is 91 degrees out.  And the two forest fires in Gila Mountain areas in New Mexico, south west of here, have now merged into one. All the helicopters and planes used to bring in water have been grounded.

While I was in Socorro a couple of days ago at a hardware store, when I walked out, it was  snowing - and it was - only the snow was from the cottonwood trees which are prevalent around here.

May 24, 2012 - 4PM

The smoke from the fires is now visible all around here, especially south and east.  But it is beginning to flow into Lemitar.  The winds are blowing and seem to be picking up.  It is currently 85 degrees outside.  My house is pretty cool, thankfully.

I ate my first cherry tomato from my plant.  It actually ripened overnight.  It was delicious.  There are many more on the plant, but my other tomato plant has only about three tomatoes on it, and I haven't seen any flowers coming along.  

All the eggs that I had put up on my last logs were gone on Tuesday.  There was no evidence of them having been eaten.  So perhaps some animal just popped them in his mouth whole, and gulped.  A real treat!

I have no pictures this time around as I haven't taken any new ones.  

I am reading the second Steve Havill book that I just took out of the library.  I only have a few more to read, and I will have read his entire POSADAS COUNTRY MYSTERY SERIES.  I am also reading Caleb Carr's second book, ANGEL OF DARKNESS, but put it on hold until I finish Havill's book. 


Life is good!


I love you all,
Sally

  



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