Happy Cat

Gene, Happy Cat arrived today. She sure is cute and my mind is already clicking away, thinking of what I will make from her. Thank you so much!

A temporary place of worship -- they plan to have their new church building in place
in two years. (see story below...)

6:pm -- 106 degrees F (41.4 degrees C)

We were over 100 degrees for 24 days before the high pressure area that had been directly overhead moved off to the north west just a little. That gave us a tiny bit of rain one night (with lots of high wind and lightening and a bit of cooler weather. Of course, that coolness is long gone.

People on the east coast are getting tons of rain and are expecting the hurricane to visit. I would take some of the rain off their hands if that were possible.

Sweetie returned last night -- he had been in Mississippi for a week with a group of men from our church (as well as from some surrounding towns) helping a small church make a place to worship out of two large storage buildings. Their church was totally destroyed by one of the April tornados. This particular church was featured on page 95 of the August issue of Southern Living.

Another of Victoria's pictures -- the photography class went to visit a nearby ranch. V liked the cows and horses. She's never gotten to be around farm/ranch animals very much -- she's a city girl.

Still having hot days -- had lunch with M and J today -- our annual lunch before J has to go back to school. It was fun catching up! Then M and I went to the new JoAnns and enjoyed looking around -- it is so much prettier than their last location -- and much cleaner. I hope they keep it that way! Some of the clerks didn't seem to be very knowledgeable about fabric but I guess they will learn.

Good morning, I hope everyone is doing well this morning.

I started out with a cloud picture taken by my granddaughter, Victoria. She participated in a Creative Arts and Crafts day camp sponsored by my church. She loves clouds so this was one of her favorite pictures.

Don't let the clouds fool you, however, there is no water in them! We still haven't had any rain at our house. It is terribly dry here -- a record breaking drought.

Mom went home and we are back to just the 3 of us -- that number includes Gracie, of course.

Gracie is grieving because her friend, Zoe, went home with my Mom. We figured that G spend about 9 or 10 weeks with Zoe this summer and she really misses her. We've considered getting another dog to be a companion to Gracie, but just don't think we can handle that. I'll have to arrange a play date so she has someone to play with!