Thursday Things

Yes, before I get some of those emails and/or comments asking if I've been abducted by aliens or fallen off the face of the earth, I'm well aware that it's been 5 days since I've posted. And yes, I do have a good reason.

This is my reason:

Sweet, innocent looking thing, isn't she? But she's got these strange habits, like eating, and needing her diaper changed. And lately she's got this new thing going on. She actually wants you to pay attention to her. She's not content with just her own company all the time anymore. As fascinating as it must be to try to swallow your own hand to the point that you gag yourself, apparently she tires of that pretty quickly and wants me to amuse her.

She also has an uncanny ability to sense when I have an urgent need to go to the bathroom or some calamity is eminent that needs my immediate attention. This sets off her siren the instant my bladder sends me the information I "gotta go, gotta go, gotta go right now" or the eminent disaster becomes apparent.

This uncanny ability also kicks in when I attempt to blog, as it did just after I started this post. Emmy was sleeping peacefully, as evidenced by those pictures I took just moments ago, and as soon as I started typing this post she started waking up.

Here's the evidence again. I wish I'd activated the time/date stamp on my camera so you could see that there's only about 15 minutes elapsed from the time I took the first pictures of Emmy asleep until this one of her wide awake....And moments later, this one.In that 15 minutes I decided to try to post

something on my blog, and you see the results.

Emmy's sleep and awake times vary from day to day. Some days she sleeps a lot, but not long at a time. It's unusual anymore for her to sleep more than an hour or so at a time, and some days she doesn't sleep much at all. Those are the days I'm exhausted and just can't find the energy or the time to do much of anything, much less post on my blog.

My digital camera has a video option but I've never tried to use it. My nephew Danny recently gave me another memory card for it that stores 1 gigabyte of video or photos (whatever that means), which is a lot more than the other one I had. I'm going to experiment with it and see if I can upload video from it.

Has anybody else noticed that Blogger now has a video button on the panel beside the "upload image" button on the posting page? I haven't investigated it yet, so I don't know exactly what it does.

In other news, I am ecstatic to report that we finally received some very welcome and much needed rain yesterday and today.

I took these pictures this morning about 9:30 am.
All the water you see in the parking lot and the ditch has already soaked in. Right now the sun is shining in between the clouds but there are thunderstorms all around us, so hopefully we'll get more rain. We've probably already gotten about an inch and half total with what we got on Wednesday but we can certainly use a lot more if the good Lord sees fit to send it.

The trees, flowers, grass, gardens and crops already look refreshed and healthier, and I love the way the air feels outside. The air looks sparkly clean and clear, without all that dusty polluted haze that's hung in the air for weeks on end.

Thank you, Lord, for the refreshing and welcome rain!After Jessica picks up Emmy for the day I have to do my grocery shopping for the month. I dread it, but Lamar's going to help me (!) and I'll be glad to put it behind me and get it done.And with that, I'm going to post this and go play with Miss Emmy. She took a little mini-nap as I was typing this and is now wide awake and showing some signs that she's hungry again.

Y'all have a great Thursday afternoon and evening.