I’ve mentioned recently that I haven’t been doing much blogworthy (a word that drives spell-check crazy) lately, mainly yard work. Well, one result of that work now sits out in the front yard; 36 lawn bags full of leaves. Part of that came from the accumulation on the shed roof. I had to clear that before something started growing up there. I’m cleaning up the yard in advance of hurricane season.
Yesterday I drove Penny to the dentist for her temporary crown. After Penny went back to have the work done another couple about our age came in to the waiting room. The wife was wearing a pain patch over one of her thumbs. She made a comment to the receptionist about falling apart. I asked her what she had done and it got a little scary because as she listed her problems I matched her item for item. She has the same issue with both thumbs. She has torn both rotator cuffs, has had one fixed and getting ready for the other. She then said that’s what happens when you get older, you look about my age. I said I was 62 and she said she was too. Then I said “don’t tell me that you were born in November” but she was! She was born in New York not Connecticut so we finally found a difference. I was beginning to think I found my twin separated at birth.
I had to mount our swifter duster on a long pole today and wipe the spider webs from my outside security cameras. It seems their IR night vision lights are the correct frequency to attract some insects and the camera structure with the weather hood makes perfect attachment points for webs. The webs are too close to the lens to be in focus but the web reflects the light back and makes it so about half of the view is blocked. It is interesting when the spider builds its web. It is out of focus but it can be recognized as web building by the motion the blurry spider makes. So far tonight no new webs are being built.
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