Random thoughts from the moose cave.

I now cannot remember when it was not a hundred degrees or more.

it feels like groundhog day in hell...

off to prepare for major toyota surgery.

yesterday we (I) picked up the rear frame assembly with axle and leaf springs still attached.

gotta cut what of the frame we don't need away today with the big torch...

time I get the torch going, we should be around 110 in the shop.

Ima buy some more popsicles to take along.

and a gatorade...

"Just this week, points on the Little Arkansas at Alta Mills and at Highway 50 near Halstead, both north of Wichita, went dry, meaning there's no water flowing in the river. The only water is in isolated pools."

http://www.kansas.com/2011/07/21/1941334/wildlife-scarce-as-rivers-trickle.html

(wichita eagle)

I can throw a rock where the river used to be...

HEY!!! Your forecast high for Sunday and Monday is 99 with an occasional cloud!

the ground is covered with leaves.

we won't have a fall this year.

this could be the start of a new dust bowl. very few of the tree rows are left intact from the old days.

rumors are that it's too dry to plant winter wheat unless we get some serious rain.

I don't see it...

The weather is doing there what it has been doing here. Only difference, it seems to be easing somewhat here.

yep, stopped flowin here a few weeks ago, the last water came outta the Pawnee after a rain to the west of us.
Not looking good at all.

doing the vampire thing.

off to go paint the bumper on the nissan before I come back and crash.

I can't water enough to keep up with the heat.

my pressure is dropping...

I'm in vampire mode too, workin and fishin all happens after midnite for awhile.
I saw this comin, after the dry winter, didn't bother to plant a thing, let the grass to it's own in may, hell with it, looks like a desert.

damn...

no wonder my paint dried as fast as I laid it.

it's still 87 degrees out.

at 3 in the firkin morning...

I give up.

Only about 3 hour of decency a day , 5 to 8 am, if ya miss the window yer pretty much toast.

85 degrees all night long here. We're melting.

I'm over to mr vw's welding his frame back together.

it's 110 on the shop thermometer.

he hadda give back the rental car today, so he's in a hurry to be done.

if all goes well, we'll grill a tenderloin later...

(after I take a looooooong shower.)

shower completed.

dog I miss them...

tenderloin is making my belly grumble. it smells wonderful.

new taters and baked beans.

truck drives great. springs are softer (out of a pathfinder)

he's a happy camper.

gonna be a late night watering when I get back to a grouchy stinkster...

it was supposed to be cloudy and cooler today with a possibility of rain.

nope. they lied. again.

waiting for a pill to kick in, and contemplating what a great cat stinky is. and how unlikely it was that he became mine.

I need to find someone that will take care of him, as the odds are pretty great that he has more years left than me.

speaking of which, I'm waffling on my choice to donate my body to science...

science has done very little to help me. I don't have the cash, and science doesn't do freebies much in Kansas.

I'd be more than happy to give the corpse to them, if they would assist just a little in delaying the arrival date a bit...

got a dilemma...

somebody went into Smoky's house yesterday while we were gone, and stole the kid's flat screen tv.

and nothing else. (my $100 dewalt cordless drill was right there on the way out from the kid's room)

the guns are still by the door. and smoky's bigger tv was easier to get to in the living room.

the only folks knew we were both gone (2 cars were here) were my 91 year old non-driving gramma, and the people (kid's ex-inlaws) that we had to wait on to bring the kid back to the rehab so we could visit him. (the rehab is an hour from our place)

gonna have to re-think locks on the shop, and on my cabin.

certainly gonna look at extending my video coverage to the shop...

Oi! You lot!
How about sending us some heat?? Coldest winter in donkey's years here

This sucks.

But locks ain't a bad idea.

If you can't trust the ex-in-laws, who can you trust?

I don't trust anyone anymore, B...

gonna bring one of the rifles back to my place.

Margo I would send you any of the next 5 days.

we've got from 103 to 108, you choose.

we got to 102 today before the clouds came.

no rain here.

not even a sprinkle...

gram got some.

Currently hot, but not sizzling here. Thunder and lightning and a torrential downpour. TORRENTIAL.

I would accept a sprinkle...

not gonna rain here anytime soon.

off to mr vw's to help deepen a well.

he lost his water the other day.

kinda crazy, he lives 200 feet from the little arkansas river. but no more water...