Today's Bullet Points...

*Coffee - missed photo op of steam coming from 50 year old 6-cup shiny electric coffee pot *# of watched minutes of Tour de France to Commercials: 15 to 45 *Check backyard temp - 88 degrees - nice *Iron 5.5 yards of fabric *Cut a quilt *No photo, again - I'll just have to "feeeL" the pinks and browns *Overheat *Pool time *Fancy bagel with cream cheese - Nana just loves "fancy" bagels *More coffee, during pool time *Save stinging little yellow jackets from drowning *Caffeine kicked in - head to garden *Cut blue hydrangeas for outside display (Note added many hours later: just ran outside for photos, better late than never, economically grabbed a few extra shots of purple flowers, and pink flowers, and an orange one) *Dodge stinging little yellow jackets - ungrateful little bastards *Check backyard temp - 88 - it's hot *Overheat X2 *Try the pool again, no coffee this time, beer *Watch Vooch till the garden - footnote: pull any number of photos from past thirteen years *Watch the chickens charge into the garden - same footnote *Chase chickens *Weed perennial bed, front stage left... Is it stage left looking at the stage or standing on the stage ? Yell out question to Duch *Pull wrong weeds, set skin on fire - note to self, research this weed later (Done. Cue "future post") *Run around showing everybody burnt skin *Check backyard temp - 88 - WTF, I need an ice bath - 3rd missed photo op for backyard thermometer *Overheat X3 *Head to pool *Change mind *Head to air conditioned room *Lay out aforesaid quilt *Change lay out *ditto, and... *ditto - took pictures of laid out quilt with smart phone - now I need to figure out how to get pictures out of smart phone and in to laptop - Polaroids were sooo much easier *Get summoned to heat up Chinese food for dinner..."now" *Eat heated up Chinese food for dinner - I still can't get my head around overhead food/on/plate pictures *Fold clothes that I neglected to include as *washed and *placed in dryer earlier in list - I have plenty of opportunities to photograph an overflowing laundry basket, no worries about missing the moment with this one *Head back to air conditioned room *I forget what I did, but I know that I did something *Returned downstairs to look for ice cream - no luck - insert pouting selfie, not *Photographed Milo and Swanson from a "cat's perspective" *Tied up tomato plants with re-purposed scrap strips from earlier quilting exercise *Piled Steve, Sam and Nan into the car and headed out for ice cream - left Pap home tying up his tomato plants with re-purposed scrap strips from earlier quilting exercise *Missed perfect photo op for close up shot of hand holding dripping mint chocolate chip cone *Drove around, checked out an overgrown, forgotten tricentennial park, bitched, bickered and begged the dog to stop breathing down our necks, shared some stories *Drove by an outdoor garden wedding with flowers and tractors and white doors for the arch - joyfully smiled *Drove by my girls' high school - all locked up to be re-built for the newest members of our small town - wistfully smiled *Drove by my awesome neighbor jogging, beeped and waved - broadly smiled *Checked out backyard temp as we drove down our cracked and frost-heaved driveway - 88 - perfect *Home... & happy - what an extraordinary day