Although it seems as if the long hot summer will never end, a couple of days ago I noticed a few leaves on the oak tree down by the mailbox fall, and waft to the ground and realized autumn is coming--the tree felt it, knew it, that the earth rotates and spins on its axis, and cooler weather is coming. How comforting; to know that the seasons will come and go no matter how we humans bollix up the earth the basic things don't change.

I had sat down in my swing on the carport, and it had loose slats, so called on a handyman I met in the post office. He and his wife came and he nailed and inserted screws, and tightened it up and it's sturdy again.
Now I can sit out there and pamper my habanero plant--it has blooms on it and I think teeny little peppers--how satisfying!


Well, today is August 29, the sixth anniversary of Katrina, and like any horrible experience, with time, the acute pain of it gradually blurs at the edges, so even though it will be with me always the sharpness of this encounter with a monster is tolerable.

The anniversary of 9/11 is approaching too, and I am watching George Bush tell of his experience of that day on a program airing on NGC.. Thank goodness that smirky face of his isn't so smirky as it used to be. His handling of the situation isn't nearly as heartfelt as Rudy Guiliani's (sp?) story.

My grand-daughter, my only grandchild will be 20 y/o in a few days. As an only child, only grand child, she has been spoiled and coddled to death, and still lives at home with her parents who are reluctant to cut the apron strings--she is so precious to us.
I think, as a cynic and a realist, of how many hard lessons she has yet to learn, that the cold cruel world can be unfair and mean, but she has to be cut loose soon. She wants to be a speech therapist, and get her BS, then PHd and Doctorate; I wish she'd get out and be in the world a couple of years first, and I'm baffled by her career choice--with all those years of schooling, she could be an M.D. But what can I do? She has to make her own way.

I sent her a birthday card with money--she can always use that!

Signing off to watch more of the 9/11 retrospective,
susil