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Okay…. Looks like the computer just let me quit Firefox and then log back in. Let’s see if this little mini-post survives “Save Draft” and “Publish”….

Is FaM working?

Will this post go online?

Testing!

What was that I was mumbling yesterday, about the Hubs of Hades?  HOLEEE doggerel! It’s not even 10 a.m. this morning, and it’s so hot out there you can hardly breathe.

Ruby and I: just back from circumambulating the park. For a change, not many fellow morons were out there, so most of the time we had the place to ourself.

Now…would you WANT it to yourself?

Questionable! 😀

Seriously: it’s hotter than a by-gawd out there: has been since we turned out of the sack around 7:00 a.m. Just short of 10:00 a.m. now…waaayyyy too long to lurk in the Arizona heat.

Ohhh well! Heat and humidity notwithstanding, it is SUCH a beautiful neighborhood. That park: it defies belief. Green green, green green grass. Lovely shade trees. Young parents rolling their infants around in strollers. Dogs frolicking about, chasing after balls and Frisbees. Wild birds visiting. Kids playing.

And right there: THAT is why I do not…do not…DO NOT want to be hauled off to the old-folks’ prison that is the Beatitudes. It’s such a joy to stroll over and watch the locals take in the pleasure of the park. How, in the name of God, am I going to avoid being dragged away from here?

Well, my house is a bit of a joy, too. If I weren’t too lazy to stumble into the backyard, I could plunge into the pool right now. Mounds of frilly cat’s-claw vines climb the cinderblock walls, blocking passers-by from peering in…and making it possible and safe for me to skinny-dip in my backyard. The neighbor’s wonderful kids play in their backyard, laughing and hollering and carrying on.

If my act were even faintly together this morning, I’d walk over to the Sprouts or down to the Albertson’s, there to pick up a few groceries.

But in the absence of a together act…I think not. Nothing on that list is an emergency. Ruby and I will continue loafing this morning — practice makes perfect, after all. Tomorrow I’ll skip the doggy-frolics and raid the nearest grocery store…BEFORE the heat comes up!

Or…hmmm… Maybe not. We now have an Uber driver living right across the street. In theory, I could put him up to driving me to a store. Or not: that sounds like work.

Let us think about that…for the next few hours…. 😀

…and it IS gorgeous! My goodness, what a beautiful morning…high, lacy clouds, lovely sunrise, balmy temperature…gosh!

Ruby the Corgi and I have already circumnavigated the ‘Hood. And my, what a beautiful day in a beautiful space.

We are getting Olde, alas, and so many of the Regulars whom we visited and loved are long gone. The Ole Guy, as SDXB used to call him: he got brain cancer and was carted off. Fran, my lively old neighbor who was one of the ‘Hood’s original residents: vanished. Mrs. Wilson, wife of Phoenix’s original city manager: gone. The big, roiling Catholic family full of wonderful kids: gone. And much missed.

Soon enough, I’ll be long gone, too. My cute little dog no doubt will be missed. Me? Not so much: I’m not the noticeable type. 😀

My goodness! Here’s a whitewing dove who is SO BOLD he marches right up to the human, pecking at the ground in search of seeds & such. What a beautiful little bird!

And…ain’t THIS nice! /s/  Some idiot BUSTED my beautiful Mexican plant pot here on the side deck. Did they condescend to let me know?  No, just left it here for me to discover.

Dayum! I’ve had that for so long, I don’t even recall where I bought it. Noplace around here, that’s for sure. Probably in Nogales.

Thanks, Jerkowitz!

Doubt if I can find one like it around here.

Wait wait! Let us not forget the ever-effervescent Amazon!

Here’s one sorta, kinda, faintly like it. SEVENTY-FIVE BUCKS! Migawd.

Welp. I guess that’s one fewer plant we’ll have on the side porch.

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Y’know, I would like NEVER TO HEAR another jet airplane roaring over my house. For unknown reasons, the Air Force has changed its flight pattern, and now every time I sit down to take the morning air, I get to take the morning racket.

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A-n-n-d…to make everything perfect, it looks like one or maybe even both of my computers just went down.

Outta here!

As we last contemplated in the most recent post: Best to just keep chuggin’away and hope Funny — or my computer — will stay online.

For…oh, my!  It is SO ungodly hot outside And without a car, getting this contraption to the repair shop is…well…quite the little challenge.

Right now the laptop is running. Seems to be running OK. So…let’s just hope it stays that way.

Horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE weather. Thermometer on the back porch now reads 100 degrees, with thick, heavy white clouds mounding up in the north. Wunderground predicts a stunning 2% chance of rain today.

Yep.  That’s all of two percent! Hot. Humid. Horrible!!!!

Hmmmm…..  Y’know…

OHHHH HELLE’S BELLES!!!!

Bing Bong!

Front doorbell.

Ohhhhhhhh sheee-ut!

CLEANING LADY!

Goddammit! I had no idea today was a Cleaning Lady Day. Now I’ve gotta get off my duff, run around, and pick up the mess.

Later!

Hmmmm….  So the last effort went online smoothly…I think. At least, it seems to have done so.

If anything has crashed, I’m not sure WHAT has crashed: Whether it’s my website, whether it’s my computer, whether it’s my online connection, or…what????

Need to find a tech who can figure this stuff out…and without a car…hevvin help us!!  That is going to entail a walk through 100-dgree heat…with no assurance that whoever is at the other end of the walk can do anything about the problem.

Okay….

In the absence of any sure knowledge of what has crashed…or whether ANYTHING has crashed…I suspect the best thing to do is nothing. I do have another computer that probably will connect with my websites and operate OK (assuming it’s not the FaM site itself that has gone down).

So: nothing.

Kindly hope for the best!