Tuesday, July 6, 2010 . . .

Another hot, kinda humid, but enough wind to survive 90+ degree day.  Another day of not comin up with anything interesting to do that was gonna hold my attention.  I really miss that mowin job, but my back still bothers me when I drive my car or truck on roads, soooooo . . . . 

Took a set of cookie cutters to the post office this AM.  They are goin to Great Britain.  Another set went out to someplace in Illinois.  I have a box of dinner plates goin somewhere in the states as soon as they pay for them.  

After the post office trip I drove out to the country . . . I live in a city of about 9-10,000 and I'm sayin something like that . . . Anyway, about all the wheat seems to be cut and they are in the process of balin straw.  The other day I saw a self-propelled baler workin a hay field.  I can only remember seein a self-propelled baler once before and that was a few yrs. ago.  Corn that was planted back in April before all the rains, is way taller than knee high by the Fourth of July.  Some fields are beginning to tassel.

Is it just me or are they doin it to you too . . . Seems that lately whenever I turn on the TV, all the channels go into 10-15 minutes of mind numbin commercials.  I find myself sittin there flippin through the channels tryin to find a few seconds of anything but a commercial for 10 minutes or so.  By the time the commercials are through, the programs are over and they go into another round of commercials.  

The weekend's Harper's Findings had some interesting findings.  They claim that Canadian men, unlike most of the world's men grow fatter as they get richer . . . They also say that a third of the United States' honeybee colonies died this past winter.  I think that the honeybee problem is a lot more serious and urgent problem than global warming or climate change or  whatever they are callin it this week.  Bees do a very large share of plant pollinating.  Fruits and vegetables are plants that need pollinating . . . We, at least I do, eat a lot of fruits and vegetables . . . getting the idea ? ? ? ?