Hot, hot and hot

My Weather Underground program recorded 99º for La Feria at 3:00 pm.  Photo at right was taken at 2:30 pm and it had been at 98.2 just prior to that.   TV Weather Guy said Harlingen - maybe 6 miles east - recorded a record high of 103º today.   It is much better inside at the 77º.

 Watched our home-town church services over the internet this Easter Morning.  Afterwards, watched much of the Service from Morrison United Methodist Church - Leesburg, FL and got to watch/listen to nephew Jonathon Miles sing and play trumpet as part of the service.

Third flat tire on my recumbent trike in the last week.  Each wheel had a chance to get in on it.  I have been trimming Bougainvillea bushes and a lot of other trimmings has been going on in the park and some of the little twigs with thorns on them are n the streets.  Avoid them as I see them, but not all of them.  One of the flats was on the inside (rim side) of the tube - no protruding spoke, so not sure what caused that one.

Not a lot of plant left of these two tomato plants, but have been getting a few grape tomatoes off them.  Still using grow lights and leaving them inside the Texas room to keep the black birds away from them.

Planted some more of the Juliet tomato seeds today, if we ever go north to Iowa, will take them with me --- or just let them grow here if we don't go north (waiting out the movement restrictions account the Covid-19 Virus.

Advice from An Old Farmer

Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.

Keep skunks at a distance.

Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

Words that soak into your ears are whispered… not yelled.

Meanness don’t jes’ happen overnight.

Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads.

Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.

It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.

You cannot unsay a cruel word.

Every path has a few puddles.

When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

The best sermons are lived, not preached.

Most of the stuff people worry about ain’t never gonna happen anyway.

Don’t judge folks by their relatives.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

Live a good, honorable life… Then when you get older and think back, you’ll enjoy it a second time.

Don ‘t interfere with somethin’ that ain’t bothering you none.

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a Rain dance.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin’.

Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

The biggest troublemaker you’ll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin’.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

Lettin’ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin’ it back in.

If you get to thinkin’ you’re a person of some influence, try orderin’ somebody else’s dog around..

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.

Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.

Most times, it just gets down to common sense.

More later, Lynn