The Latest #7

*sigh*  What a week!  Let's get started...

1. The Latest Ending:  If you've been reading this blog for at least a week, you should know that my school year is done.  The kids' last day was yesterday, and today was the teacher work day.  I am technically on break until August 20th, though I will be teaching two weeks of summer school in early August.  But believe me, there are plenty of little projects around this house that need done this summer.  Guess whose job it is to take care of them?
2. The Latest "Mood Swing":  Mother Nature's immediate switch from late-winter/early-spring to [fucking hot] summer weather.  In like... one day.  I kid you not.  This past Monday, we were still wearing those "transition" sweaters (meant for the in-between winter and spring temps) with long pants and paired up with socks and shoes that tie, and by Wednesday, we were needing shorts and tank tops with flip-flops.  By Thursday and Friday, we were going around nekkid because it was so unbelievably fucking hot.  H-to-the-O-to-the-T hot.
3. The Latest Body Function:  Sweating.  A lot.  See #2.
4. The Latest Garden Shop Purchase:  Another double shepherd's hook, a bowl of purple and lavender petunias (in memory of Jon's mom), and an established tomato plant in a pot that should be giving me tomatoes before my garden will.  MMMmmm... can't wait!!!
5. The Latest To-Do List:  Is starting to get very, very long...
6. The Latest Knowing Spam:  It was from a gentleman I've never met, but in Gmail, it shows you [from left to right] the sender's name, the subject in bold if it's unread mail, and the first bit of the body of the email, in gray.  It read: Jose SomethingOrOther.... Congratulations... You are naked.  [Actually, I wasn't, but it would have been even funnier if I was.]  I am still laughing about that one.
7. The Latest Stupid Thing To Do When It's 90+ Degrees Outside:  Put Sweet Peet organic mulch in your front flower bed.  At 2 PM with the sun blazing down.  Thank the sweet bebby jeebus that there was a fantastic breeze wind blowing.  I was still sweating buckets and guzzling down water.  BUT, the bed looks fantastic... and I only need another bag or two to finish the job.  BTW, I had to do it today...  I needed to wait until the soil got a little warmer before I put it down (or else I'd be 'insulating' cold soil with the mulch, which would stunt the growth of my plants.  And, if I waited much longer, then why bother???!??
   
8. The Latest Saga of Forgetful Jones:  Forgetful Jones was a Sesame Street character, performed by Richard Hunt.  Forgetful Jones was a cowboy with a memory problem.  He "rode in the saddle" with his girlfriend, Clementine.  He often used the wrong vowel in the skit he was in on Sesame Street, or couldn't remember where he left stuff.  I sometimes can be the female version of Forgetful Jones.  Lemme 'splain...  See, Friday was H.O.T. and it was my last day of school in a HOT building.  My brain was fried by the time I got to Jazzercise, as I seemed to have to work with two left feet and two left arms.  [My apologies to my Left-Handed Readers.]  At home, I unloaded my stuff from Gale's Garden Center, and left my doors wide open on the car for at least half an hour.  Jon finally asked why my car looked like it was flying.  Later, I watered the front flower bed, the garden in the back, grilled steak for dinner, and did other stuff that I've since forgotten.  We woke up to realize that I didn't close the garage door when I came in from watering (I came in the sliding door in the back of the house), and I didn't close the grill lid and cover it.  It was all because the heat had fried my brain.  Honest.