Hodgepodging Hot Summer and Hot Dogs

Tuesday morning Bible study

from Zionlutheranwausau (fb)

on the screen porch.

It was raining like crazy.

Great for the corn and very pleasant to hear.

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1.  Do you think the pandemic has had any kind of positive impact on your mental health? Explain.

No, I'm pretty sure it hasn't. Maybe at the beginning I kinda enjoyed it, when staying home was a welcomed novelty for everyone except the most extrovert among us, but this has dragged on and on. I can't even take a loaf of banana bread to new neighbors!

View off the south end of the front porch

on a very rainy day

(Sorry I didn't straighten this photo. I know, it bugs me too)

2. A hot mess, hot under the collar, in hot water, hot button, hot diggity dog!, hot shot, hot seat....choose one and tell us how it applies to your life currently.

I'm sorry, Joyce, but none of the above applies to me. Hot and humid would apply to Wisconsin the past week, though, although I realize that Wisconsin's 'hot' isn't exactly what southerners experience when they deal with hot temps. Our suffering is in February and March.

Reflections in the garden pond.

Notice how the few water hyacinths and water lettuces

have multiplied!

The golden color in the water is just late afternoon light

on leaves that have fallen into the pond.

3. Speaking of the hot seat, do you work well under pressure or do you actively avoid high pressure situations?

Yes I DO work better under pressure. I can get a lot accomplished in a short amount of time. But I also do tend to avoid high pressure situations, but that's a different kind of thing. So for getting work accomplished, yes I do work better under pressure.

Mailbox at the farm and the old barn across the road

4. Hotdogs-yay or nay? If you said yay how do you like yours? Did you know July is National hotdog month?  I don't usually eat hot dogs but if I do [rarely] eat a natural hot dog, I like it with coarse mustard and jalapeno slices.

BUT, this is my favorite hotdog:

But because it was SO HOT,

she had sense enough to stay indoors and enjoy the AC

Bianca is a beautiful cow.

But for some reason, she thought she wanted my phone.

5. I read here a list of America's coolest Southern towns. They are Marfa Texas, Greenville South Carolina, Abindgon Virginia, Athens Georgia, Bentonville Arkansas, Florence Alabama, Oxford Mississippi, Abita Springs Louisiana, Wilmington North Carolina, Monroeville Alabama, McMinnville Tennessee, Natchez Mississippi.  How many on the list have you seen in person? Which town on the list would you most like to see?

I have been to Greenville and to Athens. I think of those on the list I would most like to see Natchez, MS.

Horsemint in the foreground

CORN in the background

On 5th Avenue, our favorite place to walk

6.  Insert your own random thought here.

Since we visited a large group of people in Minnesota over the weekend, we are quarantining ourselves on the farm for two weeks before returning to Wausau. No reason to suspect any virus, but I guess we're playing it safe. So here are a few more farm photos. The farm's not a bad place to be stuck for 2 weeks, believe me.

This is what it looks like at 5:15 AM

in the cornfield north of the house

The old milkhouse door

that I plan to take with me to Wausau

as soon as I can talk you-know-who

into moving that heavy beast.

A little blurry, but evening light

on the bean field south of the house

On our evening walk on 5th Avenue

Neighborhood farm on a very bright

Sunday afternoon

Seldom was heard a discouraging word,

And the skies were cloudy all day

I'm not a fan of church marquees,

but this is a pretty little church in Dallas, just down the road.

The stupidest church marquee I ever saw

(no, wait. actually there were even worse ones that I'll not repeat)

was on Mother's Day.

It read: 'God couldn't be everywhere at once, so he made mothers.'

I can't believe that pastor didn't flunk out of seminary.

I don't know who his god is, but it's not the One I worship.

Church marquees need to go. It's not a McDonald's, for Pete's sake.

Okay, I probably shouldn't have dredged up that bad memory.

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