Welcome to June and to summer. Summer Solstice is, I think, June 21 though is the astronomical summer start. We have already had some hot days but may have a bit cooler stretch for the rest of the week. We were promised rain last night but the dry patio when we woke says we didn't get it. The clouds spit on us a bit this morning as we did our shopping but didn't amount to anything much. We filled up the car and were surprised that the price of gas had jumped by $0.40 per gallon overnight. I checked last night and it was $5 but all the stations in town posted $5.39. Our favorite station has a "loyalty" program which takes ten cents a gallon off, which we do appreciate. We have already limited our shopping to once every two weeks and are thinking of going to once every three weeks with trips to a much closer store for any everyday items we might run out of. We certainly won't be doing any traveling this year.
The gardens are doing well and it is a joy to see the colors beginning to pop. I still have the two largest pots and six 5 gallon buckets to get planted. I hope to find interesting plants at the city seasonal market when it opens.
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We have had a couple of busy days. After we finished our grocery shopping and putting most of the haul away yesterday neither of us felt like doing much. We went out for lunch/dinner and then vegetated for the rest of the day. Today we did some cleaning and rearranging in the kitchen, laundry, and then had to make a couple of trips to Best Buy because Mom's mouse died and I needed a new power cord.
Gizmodo posted this today. I just checked out the Drought Monitor and almost the entire western half of the country is in "extreme" or "exceptional" drought. I saw article about barrels with bodies, cars, boats are being uncovered as the water levels in Lake Meade have fallen.
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Another busy day with not much reading done. Once or twice a year we get into a rearranging/cleaning/whatever mood and do extensive housework. Our favorite saying is we "do housework when the spirit moves and, thankfully, it doesn't move often and moves off quickly." I still need to get the dehydrator set up in its summer position in the kitchen. The herbs will soon be ready to harvest. I will get out in the patio gardens today. I have to get the last of the containers cleared of weeds and add the fertilizer and fresh potting mix so they will be ready for transplants or seeds.
The current "outrage" over the latest shootings have, predictively, passed from the empty "thoughts and prayers" phase to the do nothing phase. "Thoughts and prayers" is as meaningless a phrase as "Thank you for your service." They don't demand anything of the people mouthing the phrases. So much of our political activism demands no action other than expressing the virtue-signaling empty words. This post from John Beckett says much of my own ideas. I saw a post on Facebook a few days ago that quoted a protestant minister who highlighted the problem. To paraphrase: the unborn don't demand anything--they don't demand health care, they don't demand food, they don't demand housing, they don't demand education, they don't demand jobs with living wages. The born do demand those things and our political culture doesn't want to do anything to address those needs. "Thoughts and prayers" doesn't provide safety or mental health services. By the way, notice how Mitch McConnell shifted the focus away from the guns to "school safety and mental health" and that Greg Abbott took funds from mental health services to fund his grandstanding on the border when he insisted on the extra (totally needless) inspection of trucks bring cargo into the U.S.
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