Remnants of a thunderstorm that hammered us with 0.41 inches of rain in 30 minutes yesterday afternoon. So far we have received 0.82 inches of rain this July. That is exactly 0.82 inches more rain than we got last July.
Sunday’s Sunrise
Holy Pholage of Silver and Sasha. “100% Guaranteed Performance”
Lonesome Sunflower
Glenda
Sunset
Social Disease is on Elton John’s Yellow Brick Road album, released in 1973. While I never drank, smoked, or did illegal drugs when I was a teenager (and still don’t), I loved Social Disease because I could relate to it as my peers thought I was a weirdo. Many teachers and principals told my mom I would grow up to be a no-good-for-nothing social disease. I never rebelled against my parents. I didn’t need to. They left me alone to take care of the animals and the house and irrigate the property through my teen years. But I rebelled against authority and public school. I hated both with a passion.
Loki: “Reach out and touch someone with a social disease!”
Breast Cancer Rose
Marble: “Where’s the cheez?” Loki: “Concetrate hard!” Silver; “¡Milagro!”
Line of cats
Thunderstorm
Sliver Moon in a V.
Spider Lily
Cheese line
Bloody knife
Clouds at noon
Looking south
Birds on wires
White lilies
Can you guess what’s in the iron skillet?
Box hugger Sasha keeping me from taking out the boxes I broke down.
Can you guess what’s on the plates?
Sasha: “If you wanted to see more clearly, you could have used the binoculars!”
Spider lily
Spunk: “Who are you calling a ‘Tart?’ Paparazzo Moroncy. Keep your cherries to yourself!”
The cheese line
Crab Spider on the Spider Lily
A pot full of name tags from all our roses that have died over the years, mainly due to late hard frosts.
Spunk meditating on a landing from a stairway to Heaven.
Gwendolyn: “What are you talking about, stupid Paparazzo? I just climbed a stairway to Heaven to get here! 🤬!” Sasha: “And I just climbed a stairway to purgatory to get here. 🤪!”
I wonder how many other people have bought and killed a Stairway To Heaven? It’s a gripping, dripping question.
Gwendolyn: “I think I see a stairway to Heaven through the microwave glass!”
Silly Silver and Spunk: “No comment!”
Sasha meditating on a question about electrolytes and hydration needed to climb a stairway to Heaven.
Turn up the volume so you can listen to Freyja’s splashes
We took a long walk in the bosque this morning, and Freyja got to splash around in the Rio Grande, as you can see in the above video.
Glenda: “Whatcha makin’, Paparazzo?”
What might this pile of wood turn into?
Hmmm! It looks like a waterwheel. But what would we or the cats need a waterwheel for?
Oh! It looks like Marble is hiding something.
Marble: “It’s a Kittywheel! You stupid Paparazzo. You didn’t even know what you put together!
The Kittywheel on the deck with the cat tree.
Sasha thinks it’s quite comfy, but she hasn’t figured out that she’s supposed to walk on the Kittywheel.
Sunset
Sasha’s a happy kitty
We got a visit from this kitty last night. He was friendly and had square eyes. We don’t know where he belongs.
Cow Cats of the day
Wynona. A big brown beaver.
Western Bluebird in silhouette
Round-eyed Devil
Sasha exercising
Ma ma ma, my peonies
Dusty Sandias
Tangle Heart Tree
Setting sun
Dawn
Flower storm
Sunset
Hint of the solar storm at 8:30 PM
When I walked out at One after 9:09, the lower part of the sky looked clear to my naked eye. But through the camera, I could see the solar storm.
The sky was purple, looking north.
The sky, looking west.
Sasha and Silver were impressed
Off Center & Not Even 