This, That, and Chat...

We received a nice rainfall Wednesday! A much needed rainfall. It wasn't enough to even come close to breaking the drought...but, every little bit helps. I'm sure glad we got the hurricane shutter back up when we did. Something this week went right! lol The winds were quite strong, nearly hurricane force...lots of branches came out of the pecan tree. Now, we have another job of work. Won't take long tho. Thank goodness....did I say how humid it is out there right now?  My job of work list was shortened by one because...I didn't need to go out and water the patio plants in all the containers.  I just sat at the window, with the front room door open, and listened to the downpour, and enjoying the fresh, sweet, rain-drenched fragrance.  As I type this up, tho, the traces of any evidence of moisture is gone, and it's steamy.  I'll take it.  If only that would happen once a week, for about 3 months, maybe it would be sufficient.  The water shed [two reservoirs] is not even up to 50% capacity.

As I mentioned in my previous post, I will continue to wear face masks while the state of Texas begins to re-open.  I sat down and did another project on my list of jobs for the day. I followed the Surgeon General's face mask tutorial video since we're not supposed to buy/use the N95 masks in order to save those for stock piling for the first responders...makes sense to me.   I kinda tweaked his 'pattern' so I could add a filter behind the mask for more protection.  [It's just a bandana folded with elastic hair bands.] I didn't want to use rubber bands as he suggested, I wanted color: red bands for my red bandana, black for Bud's, and beige for my other one. I did three. One for Bud and two for me. A red and white bandana, and a black and white for Bud. My 2nd one for myself is a camouflage print. I thought since it's camouflage, no one will be able to see I'm wearing it?!! Nah...it's just that those three bandanas were what I had at home in my vanity drawer.  All three were completed in less than 10 minutes.  Easy, and no sewing! 

I also had on my list of things to do; installing a back-up search engine since Chrome and Firefox gave me fits days ago. One that doesn't use anything connected to GOOGLE!!! I know that Google tracks every movement with the use of Chrome [it tells us in the "I agree" part when you install its updates, etc.] And this new backup went on my cellphone too. It's so fast without all the garbage of Chrome/Firefox. Pages open instantly, even sites with heavy text and images. It's awesome. The new [new to me] browser/search engine combined is DUCKDUCKGo ----Another item on the 'to do' list was to get out online and order two books....Bud, one, and the other for me.

I then, crocheted a bit. I got behind on that for a few days, with going out hunting down migrant birds and doing at home tasks this week. Next to last task, work on fingernails with the file and emery board. The last thing on my list was to scrub the two bathrooms.....done!

Oh, and to end the post today...a posy for y'all, Not sure, but I think this is called a butterfly bush. I saw it while out walking along Packery Channel park the other day. If it isn't, and you know what it is...by all means, correct me. It's purple...that's what counted when I saw it. I love purple and blue flowers best.