Fowl Mouth: I Done Stuff

I have events!!!!

Last Friday, two of my aunties and I took a trip to New Bern (pronounced NUburn, one word, accent on the NU) to look at an original land grant for some of our family land. The document was housed on the grounds of the Tryon Palace complex. It was old and somewhat water-stained, so you couldn't make out the exact location, but it was given to an Alexander Colvin (200 acres) and the document was signed by governor Martin in 1773. I'm not sure when the land and the document came into our family. The visit actually created more questions than it answered. But it was good to get out. New Bern is like a little Williamsburg and I want to go back to spend the day sometime. Maybe when my sister comes to visit.

It was very hot last weekend, we reached 105 in the shade for a couple of days. My cockers are really suffering with all of those feathers. I keep them in water, but mostly they hang out under the porch where the AC discharge is, cause the water there is cool all the time. I am fighting a battle with one of the girls the last couple of days. She keeps getting on the front porch and keeps digging in one of my big flower pots. Today I found out why.

I've heard of dirty eggs, but this?

Our pond is now a big puddle.

even the frogs are leaving

We had a little drizzle yesterday and today, enough to keep it from being too hot, but not much more. It didn't register on the rain gauge. We keep praying.

Yesterday, one of my Mom's sisters visited with two of her girls. It was her birthday and we had a nice lunch and a good 5 hour visit. Mom can't make it to the reunions anymore so this was a substitute, kinda. They put me in charge of the theme and the invite for next year's Wagoner reunion. So I am trying to find a simple photoshop app for my apple computer. Photoshopping seems so complicated.

I made some pesto from my liquorish basil and froze it and made some from my lemon basil for yesterday and the both turned out yummy. I ate all the left over lemon basil today. BAD ME. My goal is to do all of the flavors and freeze it, but it is so time consuming piking off all the leaves. I'm still getting okra and cucumbers out of the garden and some of the volunteer tomatoes are producing, but the rest is mostly weeds.

Well, not quite, I took a break to get cukes and also got more green beans, yellow beans, cow peas and a few bell peppers and pablanos. I guess I shouldn't write things off just yet. Looks like more freezing for the winter, said the ant in me. Grab a beer said the grasshopper in ditto. (I like beer more than wine in hot hot weather).

The new baybays are now firmly in the skekesis stage.