Mid-August
Sunday, 16 August 2015 17:48![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_phil_physics31 days of August.
That makes August 15½th, a few hours ago, the halfway point.
In just a little over three weeks we will have Labor Day. And the next day classes begin again at Western Michigan University. The grind begins anew.
It is a beautiful August day here in West Michigan. The sky is blue. The temperature is 89°F, once again Not Ninety. At least so far.
Under other circumstances I would be out with my cameras and long lenses, maybe over at the crowded lakeshore. Or chasing trains, except it's Sunday.
At home, though, it is August bug noise season. The last few nights when I have gone to bed after 4am, the bugs have still be going -- and loud enough that I think the bedroom window needs to be closed. But it is closed.
Every morning I check my temperature. But the new Walgreen's thermometer I got a few weeks ago beeps so quietly, I had to do a repeat to try to hear its DONE tone, because the bugs outside were so loud.
Right now I have headphones on and Mrs. Dr. Phil has Bluetoothed her Kindle Fire HDX to Echo and is playing podcasts while she cooks. And I can still hear the bugs.
Mmm...
There are reasons why we haven't mowed the yard in over ten years...
And we have peaches. Flaming Furies and Red Havens. And big local tomatoes.
Mmm...
It's lovely.
It's August.
It's summer.
Limited availability, your mileage will vary, check your newspaper for current listings, offer not valid in all fifty states...
Dr. Phil
That makes August 15½th, a few hours ago, the halfway point.
In just a little over three weeks we will have Labor Day. And the next day classes begin again at Western Michigan University. The grind begins anew.
It is a beautiful August day here in West Michigan. The sky is blue. The temperature is 89°F, once again Not Ninety. At least so far.
Under other circumstances I would be out with my cameras and long lenses, maybe over at the crowded lakeshore. Or chasing trains, except it's Sunday.
At home, though, it is August bug noise season. The last few nights when I have gone to bed after 4am, the bugs have still be going -- and loud enough that I think the bedroom window needs to be closed. But it is closed.
Every morning I check my temperature. But the new Walgreen's thermometer I got a few weeks ago beeps so quietly, I had to do a repeat to try to hear its DONE tone, because the bugs outside were so loud.
Right now I have headphones on and Mrs. Dr. Phil has Bluetoothed her Kindle Fire HDX to Echo and is playing podcasts while she cooks. And I can still hear the bugs.
Mmm...
There are reasons why we haven't mowed the yard in over ten years...
And we have peaches. Flaming Furies and Red Havens. And big local tomatoes.
Mmm...
It's lovely.
It's August.
It's summer.
Limited availability, your mileage will vary, check your newspaper for current listings, offer not valid in all fifty states...
Dr. Phil
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