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8/14/2007My personal Odyssey into the realm of the asthma monster continues. (Wow, sounds exciting!) So far destruction of the beast has proven imposssible. Controlling the brute is the best that...

8/12/2007103 degrees? you've gotta be kidding me! Someone stick a fork in us please...we're done. It's so hot that I think I saw a family of gila monsters moving in out back...they said Arizona was a...

8/10/2007Hurray, the streak is broken. It wasn't 100 degrees out today. It topped off at a chilly 96. But don't break out the jackets just yet. We are supposed to creep back up to three digits on...

8/9/2007It remains very hot. Living on a stovetop is not all it's cracked up to be.I think my area has reached a boiling point. It's time to reduce the heat to simmer. No such luck today though. It's...

8/6/2007the heat is maintaining a strangle hold on these parts and on much of the nation as far as I can tell. We are supposed to top the century mark, temperature wise, for the rest of the work...

8/4/2007I'm feeling a little like Charlie Brown today. I was looking over my pictures on my web page and noticed that I'm wearing the same shirt in 4 of the them...Like good ol' Charlie Brown! What...

8/2/2007Just call me homebody. It remains very hot and the weekend promises to be hotter still. I have some things to do but I am going to limit my outside activities until it cools down some. Why...

8/1/2007If these are the dog days of summer then the dog can have them back. It's brutal outside. Of course, it being August, it's supposed to be brutal. I guess I was spoiled by all the cool weather...

7/28/2007I meant to post before I went to bed but I fell asleep. Now here I am wide awake in the middle of the night. It's kind of nice really. Up alone in a sleeping household is sort of peaceful....

7/26/2007Home Alone :Part 55....AAAAHH!!! OK, I may be a little old for the McCauley Caulkin role but nowadays... so is he. Everybody is out and about. Nobody here but me and the cat and she's not...

7/25/2007Great day. I am breathing one heck of a lot easier today. I must be used to some degree of breathing difficulty because I had thought that I was breathing OK all along...but...

7/24/2007the weather has remained just outstanding around here. I'm feeling so-so but at least I'm not coughing. I spent the day driving my oldest son around. He is up from Joplin and has no car....

7/23/2007this morning I noticed that we were short of cups and glasses in the kitchen. Knowing that my darling daughter frequently takes them when she is running around and then leaves them in her...

7/22/2007Oh well, the best laid plans....Somehow I wound up going out with the girls anyway. We took Julie's  friend out to lunch and a movie. I did not hate it as much as I thought. the food was...

7/21/2007What a pretty day! All the more so because I felt great and got out of the house.  I also was able to get some things done that I had neglected during my "down" time.  I still have to...