Monday Meanderings - 8.29.2011

Y'all, it's too hot to blog! Here's proof:

And actually it reached 112 at Camp Mabry, one of the official measuring places. The same is expected for today. Come on, Thursday and Friday!!

Evidently Austin likes it hot - inside and out. Yesterday a few thousand gathered in Waterloo Park in record-setting heat for the 21st annual Hot Sauce Festival. Hot sauce vendors put out their hottest concoctions and everyone got to sample and judge. I'm told they disqualified the fan favorite - the vendor that was passing out ice cream.

Our pulpit minister took his oldest boy to Pepperdine this week - first child to leave for college. He said that he and his wife shed a lot of tears when it was time to go. No, the boy was fine, but it was 78 degrees in Malibu and 108 in Austin.

We are now only allowed to water one day a week, unless it is by a hand-held hose. Barb says having the hose pass over your lap while you are sitting on the patio does not count.

Went out to get the paper the other morning and found a large limb from the pecan tree broken completely off and hanging down perilously close to the garage doors. A bit more and the cars are not coming out. Now you may recall that something similar happened a couple of years ago. I solved that problem by climbing up on the roof with the chain saw and dispatching the errant limb. You may also recall the new problem that created of my not being able to get down off the roof  because the limb I used to get up there in the first place was now firewood on the driveway.

This time there was no advantage to my getting on the roof, but for some reason Barb was really adamant about my climbing into the tree with a chain saw. So adamant that I called a man and paid him a large sum of money to have his guy climb into the tree with a chainsaw. I do admit that it was nice that when they left they took all the limb parts with them - and swept the driveway to boot!

And you have seen this before, but it is so nice to think about. Right?