August 8, 2022
Daily Diary, Day 707: I am such a wimp about walking in hot weather! But I have been trying to get out of the house by 7:30, if not earlier, so I have been getting the full hour walk in. Currently working my way through the Shedunnit podcasts I mentioned last week, and over half-way through a Stephanie Plum audiobook, which I got discounted on Chirp. It’s the eleventh one (and I think I stopped reading them at about book nine) but really doesn’t matter since it isn’t about the plot, but about the hi-jinks of Stephanie and her family. Enjoying. Not something I would make a steady diet, but very good at distracting me when my feet are dragging on the walk.
I was going to brag about not finding any ants yesterday doing my weekly thorough cleaning of downstairs which consists of washing all the various dog blankets and couch covers, scrubing counters, wet moping floors, etc on top of my usual daily cleaning.
Then this morning as I finished dust mopping downstairs and was contemplating whether or not I could skip the upstairs becaue I was so HOT, I saw a bit of fluff on the upstairs hallway. I bent over to pick it up and it was moving. Blech…. Must have been 50 ants swarming over whatever that fluff had once been.
After cleaning it up, all I could tell was the trail seemed to come from under the hallway baseboard. Needless to say, I did a very thorough dust mop of the upstairs before my shower. No more ants were found. Such events lend drama to my days!
I can’t complain about my weekend in terms of writing. I averaged 1314 words over the two days. Of course, this morning I’ve already deleted 39 of them. I’m going to have to be disciplined and stop tinkering and just move on when I finish doing this post.
Meanwhile, I just loved this brave little flower that had somehow found a way to penetrate a hedge!