Here we are in the last week of July. Wow. The days fly by when you’re too busy with annoying drudgery. So that’s a strange way of looking at it. While engaged in the drudgery it’s crawling along. But when I finally escape, the day is already wasted away. And what’s left flies down the gravity drain into the past in the blink of an eye. So, I’m just annoyed at the present situation. And it’s only gonna get worse in August and so I’m terribly disgruntled. But until I figure a way out of the trap I’m in, it’s gonna be status quo. Enough. Well, at least I have the weekend off so I’m going to enjoy the next two days as much as is humanly possible. So, stop complaining!
We’re five episodes into the first season of “Landman” and it’s a very odd experience. The main story of Billy Bob Thornton’s character trying to manage a chaotic mix of oil field accidental mayhem, narcotraficante related mayhem and roughneck related mayhem is interesting but the subplot involving his terminally self-absorbed ex-wife is extremely annoying. The other themes associated with his son and daughter are pretty good and his son’s story is expanding into a larger role. Camera Girl and I are enjoying the experience of having a show that we can both watch with at least some degree of interest. There was one scene that I found particularly funny. Tommy Norris’s ex-wife is trying to stage a “family” dinner with herself, Tommy, their two kids and the two oil company guys who are staying at the company “house.” She insists that they all join hands around the table for a prayer and after it’s over the two outsiders are talking about it and one guy says, “Well, that was the first dinner prayer I can remember that was explicitly blasphemous.”
Friday, Saturday and Sunday’s weather is supposed to be beautiful. The kids came over to use the pool today and they said the temperature was perfect. And the butterfly bush is finally in full flower and monarchs and swallowtails (tiger and pipevine) are increasingly present as photographic subjects. And the raspberry canes are starting to produce a bumper crop of berries. So, this is peak mid-summer experience and if I wasn’t committed to an annoying task I would be in seventh heaven. Well, I guess it’s not that bad if I can take the time to complain this much about it.
One of our neighbors put out a bit of video from her bird feeder. It was of a black bear’s nose stuck up against the camera. The bear’s claws were fairly impressive and a good reminder that even a black bear is not a Disney character that you can approach with impunity. We have a bunch of blueberry bushes that are just about ripe so we may be getting a visit from Yogi and company at any time. I have a game camera mounted but I didn’t return the memory stick last time I downloaded the files. I probably should.
Well, that’s enough for now. Just regular stuff going on. Enjoy July.
