Okay, Sunday and Monday we got a few thunderstorms. And they dropped some serious rain here! Our rain gauge recorded for the Sunday thunderstorm a total of 3 inches. Well, the great governmental agency that runs the weather service as usual blew it and gave us just 1.59 inches. Not too far off the mark really compared to Monday. Monday morning early a thunderstorm came by that dropped 5 inches of rain! But more during the morning hours brought us another 2 inches. For a total rainfall of 7 inches for monday. But the government as usual, really blew it and said we only got .55 inches of rain! See, not only do they take our money in huge amounts and dole it back to us in small amounts, but they do the same to rain. Oh well, such is life.

Now all that rain has not helped our gardens at all. They were and still are so water soaked that just about all the plants are varying shades of yellow. Hopefully soon we will get several days of good sun and warm weather to dry out the gardens and perk those plants back up. But the forecast so far is more rain tonight, tomorrow, tomorrow night, the next day and night. In other words, we are going to get even more rain to make sure the plants don’t dry out, but continue gasping for air for all the water in the ground. Sure that Saturday is start of a trend of sunny days and warm weather.

Jalapeno plants are doing good! Had one the other day and it was delicious on the nachos (yes, and hot). Today some dropped on the ground because of the rain so wife brought them inside (just 4 decent sized peppers). And tomorrow or next day, I will pick about 12-15 good sized peppers that are ready. Think we will have a nice huge crop of jalapenos this year. We intend to slice them and pickle them as freezing them we discovered is not the best way to preserve them.

Tomato plants are coming along. Except for 2 plants, all have blooms and little to golf sized fruit on them. In a couple weeks at most we should be harvesting a few tomatoes each day. We will get enough of a crop for my wife to make quite a few quarts of salsa. Half her mild way and the other half my hot way (lots of fresh jalapenos in my half).

Yesterday we went up to Des Moines. Visited Aunt Louise. Yes, brought her some food so she won’t starve. That is what she says, if not for us and her daughter she would starve there as the food is not to her liking. Plus the weekly thing where my wife styled her hair and got her looking gorgeous for being 98. Aunt Louise again was in a talkative mood. Talking (this is where I just sit there as I do not know half the people she talks about) about the early days, the families (hers and my wife’s, as Aunt Louise is the sister of my wife’s mother) and who died, married, had a baby, and so forth. Eventually she let us leave so she could proceed to her meal. We stopped by Aldi and loaded up on food items my wife said we need if we want to survive. Then back to home.

Where wife had a phone call almost as we walked in the door from a niece of hers on her first husband’s side. Her mother, sister of wife’s first husband (he is dead) was put under hospice care and they are giving her some morphine mixture every 4 hours to keep her pain down. And they do not give her much more time. She has gone over the 6 months the doctors gave her to live last year. Her birthday is this Sunday and she wants to celebrate it so she can say she lived longer than her mother. So she is going downhill fast! And this morning we drove up to Adel to visit with her. Tell you, she barely looks like the woman I know! Her face is all puffy, just a few straggly strands of hair on her head, her legs are way swollen and look terrible. So I just said hello to her and hugged her. Then let my wife take over as it is her sister-in-law. They both talked and laughed for a couple of hours about everything and everybody. We left about 1230pm and came on home. Got a bit of rain then, from just south of Des Moines to our exit. Thus a little bit more rain for the gardens!

This Saturday wife and her daughter will go back to Adel and visit with Linda (yes, that is her name, forgot to mention in previous paragraph) for a bit before they go to a baby shower. Baby shower is for the proud mother of Aunt Louise’s first and guess only great-granddaughter. From what I have gathered over the many years, baby showers are not for men so of course I will stay home.

Okay, have to add this one, as I read it all earlier this afternoon.

Let Them Eat Dog
A modest proposal for tossing Fido in the oven.

Despite the fact that it’s perfectly legal in 44 states, eating “man’s best friend” is as taboo as a man eating his best friend. Even the most enthusiastic carnivores won’t eat dogs. TV guy and sometimes cooker Gordon Ramsay can get pretty macho with lambs and piglets when doing publicity for something he’s selling, but you’ll never see a puppy peeking out of one of his pots. And though he once said he’d electrocute his children if they became vegetarian, one can’t help but wonder what his response would be if they poached the family pooch.

Now go read the entire article here: Modest Proposal

And just a bit of conservative news to offset MSM and all their liberal drivel that few I would hope actually believe. I mean, surely you do not believe what CBS, NBC, MSNBC, etc puts out for news?

Note to White House: Stop Obsessing With Fox News

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