To keep or not to keep, that is the question?

Well, about the dog, I still have her. She just now peed in the floor and I had taken her out of her crate first thing this morning so she could go outside plus I went out with her and milled around in my gown tail until she peed. We came in and I fed her, played and petted her. Chick took her out again for a poo break while he carried out the trash. She did it twice. Lo and behold, we came in and she ate her food, had a drink of her water and a teaspoon lick of peanut butter while I was making Chick an English Muffin.

Chick called the groomers and asked what time to bring the dog we are perhaps keeping and perhaps not. The dog came slinking to my computer chair where I am when Chick started calling her to put her on the leash. She wanted no part of it. He bent down, she squatted as he was putting the leash on and a puddle of pee was on the carpet. How do dogs know they are going somewhere when they've never been, etc. ? I'm still debating on this dog - - to keep or not to keep, that is the question.

July 27, 2011

The air was sweltering already and the time was 7:00 a.m. I thought about the many summers gone by.

A time caught for a moment like the beautiful Monarch who fleetingly comes and sits on the rose and then lifts off never to be seen again. A thing of beauty. A glimpse of life, like a movie playing with mom, dad, my sister and then our baby brother. The Monarch,a creature of beauty. Like our family once was. I long to pick up the phone and talk to my parents. I long for holidays to be what they once were. Those longings lead me to another road. I must go on in a different direction as nothing is the same. Nothing!

I listen to the July flies knowing they will be gone in another month. Silence! No, something else will take their place.

July 25, 2011 on the porch

It has been unusually hot this summer in Texas. My grandson, Logan, was outside riding his bike while I was puttering in the yard with our new dog, Marlee on Friday. I was remarking on the cracks in the ground; how deep and wide they are. I whispered quietly while standing over a crack, "Logan, listen!". I bent down with my hand behind my ear to listen. He said, "What is it Memaw?" I said, "I hear something!" I bent further down towards the crack with a serious expression. He bent down to listen. I said,"Do you hear it? Someone is speaking Chinese. You know the Chinese people live on the other side of the earth from us?" He bent down and said "Really?" I told him I heard them this morning and got so hungry for Chinese food; I drove to Golden China in McKinney and got me and Pawpaw some Cashew Chicken." I really had him for a minute.

No kidding, it has been an extreme summer along with the extreme winter in Texas; when will we be able to be comfortable to go outside again? The grass is gone and what is left is brown. We conserve water; therefore the lawn--over an acre of land would require lots of water. We have been watering the pecan trees closest to the house as the pecans seem to be cooking on the limbs in front of our eyes. When will this heat break? It is only July and August is usually the hottest month in Texas. I pray for some rain Dear Father of the Universe, please give us some rain soon.

This is my pondering today.