I’m currently house sitting for a friend who is in California. The location is a few miles east of Austin, a stone’s throw away from the Colorado river. It’s three and a half acres of river bottom, full of flowering plants, with a sizeable greenhouse (currently empty because it reaches 130°F in there during the day).
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The last four days have topped 100°F, though today just barely. The three previous days I watered for 14 hours each day, both lawn and plants. It is a remarkable landscaping, several bushes are blooming at any given time. And watering encourages the blooms.
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The watering also attracts birds and butterflies. Today I too off during the heat of the day. I got enough water down to where I could afford to coast a day. Laundry, cooking, caring for the eight quadrapeds (3 dogs, 4 cats, 1 tortoise), and generally gathering wind for the next round. I also took the new dog, transplanted from another friend’s place to the east, to a park by the river and let her seen running water for the first time. I’m the transitional trainer, since I’ve known the dog for years.
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One way of keeping the cats occupied is to turn on the sprinkler in the back yard for the birds, essentially making a nice cool bird bath. It’s drawing quite a crowd, sparrows, cardinals, finches, dove, mocking birds, and others, and the indoor cats are sitting at the window, utterly enthralled.
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I managed to take a nap as well. Not deep into graphics at the moment. I haven’t gathered enough wind for that. But I did manage to figurre out the words for the Rock Me Mama jam by Bob Dylan (Pat Garret and Billy the Kid sound track sessions). This is the tune that lent its chorus to Wagon Wheel by Old Crow Medicine Show, that I picked up back in the spring. This is an alternative for the sake of perspective.
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Otherwise, I’m drained.