Insomnia strikes again

Ahhhh...relief. The heat wave we had been under...the 90+ days with high humidity are gone. It is 57 as I write this, with quite a bit of fog outside, still it feels wonderful as I sit here in front of the computer. Now if only I could get eight hours of sleep consistently...back in the old rut of waking up three hours after going asleep and then lying there. Hence why I am typing this so early in the morning.

The real change occurred Wednesday afternoon when it started to rain, previous it was in the mid-70's and humid. I had harvested beans - yellow, green and flat italian from the garden and I was soaked with sweat etc. Of course I was wearing a t-shirt and long sleeve shirt as well as jeans. I have discovered that something in the garden...zucchini...beans...tomatos? Is giving me a rash when my bare skin touches it. Most apt to appear on my arms or legs...thus the need to cover up...never happened before to my recall. Anyway I now have a ton of beans and the zucchini have started in earnst...the tomatos look just about ready to burst as well.

Back to the temps...the rain came, a soaking steady downpour, not too heavy, but slow and steady the right kind of rain. The kind that you like to lie in bed and just listen too. I'm sure it will revitialize the grass etc which after the weeks of heat had stopped growing - only the weeds seemed to thrive. By evening we were down to 66. So we have shutoff the central air and opened all of the windows.

Checked out the parents garden while they are in Atlanta. Picked some zucchini and cucumbers and stuck them in the frig up there. Looks like the heat has done a number on the lower garden at least on the zucchini plants as they appear to be dead now...the butternut squash on the other hand are thriving.

Got my haircut too yesterday - $5 for the cut (hair & beard), $2 tip - a bargain considering what I used to pay which was between $15 - 18 at the barbershop, then I found this place a hair salon that does a basic men's haircut for $5 - walkins welcomed - not bad sort of fills in the blanks between the normal hair appointment customers.

Now I must get serious about some paperwork around here and my Tomb Stories. Once again I have been neglecting them for too long. I need to figure out what projects I want to do - those that can wait till winter - inside and those that can't - outside. Plus for two years I have been talking about having a Garage Sale and I really, really need to do that....or try Ebay, but that will probably become too much of a hassle.

Let's see off the top of my head :

- learn and create a webpage (at least I've started this Blog - but have alwayts wanted a web page)

- do a preliminary estimate on my Income Taxes - need to calculate Capital gains so far from the sale of the S&S Fund. Hopefully the Gain won't be too much - at least this year I've budgeted for estimate taxes - both State and Federal.

- scan the old pictures, label and create a photo scrap book. A lot of the pictures are my mother's and father's some are identified, some are not and then there are all the pictures I have taken over the years - oh boy!

- work on genealogy, both mine and Thelma's. Hers is on the Apple IIGS and I did get that out of storage and setup and it works!, now to see if the printer does and if the ribbons are not dried up yet. I need to print off her stuff, then key the information into the Family Tree program on the Windows PC....as for mine I have a Family Reunion coming up in August and I need to get to my Aunt Gen's to scan her pictures etc.

- then there is the Living Trust and to decide who should be my trustees and who should get stuff when I am gone etc etc etc.

- and I really should devote some time to reading...set aside a couple of hours to just sit and read.

The list could go on and on...but I will stop here for now.

Later...