June 13 – “The Ugly Side …”

Yardwork day was upon us once again.  I guess that means it is finally summer, and we have to trudge through it once a week.  As is our custom, I did the mowing and edging.  Chris followed up with the sweeping and dumping into the trash can.  She also spent some time clearing out interlopers from the flower beds she has been staying on top of through the Spring.  From the perspective of this cratchity old homeowner, I would say she has this place looking pretty decent.  There are flowers of every color, from yellow to blue to purple to red to pink to a brilliant white.  They don’t all bloom at the same time, but when they do, it is quite the array of beauty.  Add to that the chatter of all the birds passing through and the cheeping from the nests of the birds that stick around, and we are getting close to our home in the forest we once had before we had to cut down all the trees that died after Hurricane Ike.  It’s enough to make you want to stick around for a while longer.

We did something in the afternoon we haven’t done in a while.  We watched not one but two full length movies.  Not at the theater, of course.  They are closed for renovations.  They are becoming one of those recliner and full meal attractions while you watch the movie places.  Weird.  Especially since I can do that here at home.  Not that I wouldn’t be interested to experience such an attraction.  But there is something to be said for the ability to pause the action when you have to go to the bathroom.  Just saying …

Oh, I almost forgot.  The movies we watched?  Mission Impossible II.  We saw the first MI the other day.  And Number III is on the docket for our next viewing pleasure.  We also watched an unknown titled Hallmark movie.  No idea what it was called.  No need.  It was the same cheesy plot we have come to know and love.  Except it wasn’t dressed up in a Christmas theme with snow and all.  Chris made the comment that it bothered her that the same lady sure was kissing a lot of different guys.  I reminded her that the last guy she kissed was while she was living in Rome as a travel guide.  They obviously broke up and she came home.  That’s the ugly side of fairy tale romances, I suppose.

Psalms 27:14 says, “Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.”

Father, thank you for a sense of accomplishment in looking at our yard.  And thanks for the relaxing afternoon at the movies.  Amen.