We Prepare For Hot Weather!!!

After a good night of sleep for the hounds they were more than ready to start Wednesday unaware their schedules were a little different since the time change. Things like sleeping an hour later each morning, and that starts the daily walk an hour or so later. One thing they and I enjoy though ... is this great weather the past two days. It is suppose to be 69° by mid-afternoon if you can believe that.

These two photos were taken last night as they enjoyed the warm leather couch as I wasted time watching some tv. Their body heat and the leather couch is a good combination for a good night of sleep for them.

This morning Heidi wasn't sure what she heard, "do you want to go on a walk?", or was she dreaming. She had no plans on changing her daily routine, which is sleeping wrapped up in a sleeping bag until lunch time. The fact is I can't remember the last time she ever went outside to join us on the morning walk, even in summer weather. Maybe never!

It was a nice change with the carport thermometer showing the needle above 50° when we stepped outside. I didn't have to wear gloves nor my sock hat, and that cold wind was gone ... just birds filling the sky up with their communication and a little energy in Stella's walk.

We will be getting more rain sometime late tonight, maybe after midnight. That will be some of the residue from the storms out west on Tuesday. My twitter account was showing photos for a funnel touchdown just east of Mesa, AZ and again SE of Roswell, NM. It's hard to imagine anywhere in AZ or NM having tornadoes.

This morning was one of those times I couldn't put my finger on what I was going to do today. I do have plans to watch or turn on a couple of basketball games at noon. They are being played in the Big10 Conference tourney. My team does not play until Thursday at 12:30pm.

I am still trying to sort out my menus ... high fat and high protein, or low fat, regular protein and more carbs???? I could never do the strict Keto Diet. For example, yesterday I had a banana and 2c of steamed spinach during the day and that equaled 46g of carbs ... Keto likes you to have no more than 20g of carbs per day.

I have thought of going back to a ratio of 70% Carbs, 20% Proteins and 10% Fats of my total calories for the day. The hesitation and the continuous analyzing is from the way I feel when I have more carbs in my diet. I can feel fat, bloated, some indigestion depending on what I have eaten, such as a bowl of oatmeal. The answer will eventually come to me.

The "dingbat AOC" was in PRIME FORM yesterday and many people in the congressional room and later on the internet were slapping their foreheads asking WTF ??? Did she really say that? I am including one link but it is very important to view both videos on that page. It will explain things much better than I could tell you. The first video is 4 minutes long and the second video about how she got where she is, is 20 minutes long. It is a youtube video down in the comment section but here is the link ... but well worth the time.

It is just astonishing to think about.

I am sure you have heard or read, it is fact, that Omar married HER BROTHER to solidify her US visa and ability to stay in the US. How can that happen and still get away with it? The UN assigned her to live in the US as a refugee. Her district in Minnesota looks nothing like an American town, say those that pass through there.

Stella started moving in the direction where she could hear the cows again this morning. Then she had to stand, sniff the air, listen and try to figure out what that sound was or maybe she understood what the cows were telling her. It took her a few minutes before she moved from this spot.

The released transcripts recently as last night are telling exactly what went on with the DOJ and the FBI when Obama was in office. The nice thing is all of those involved could be headed for major jail time with this new Attorney General. Of course CNN is not covering any of those transcripts the past week but Fox News is showing what is in those transcripts.

It's not surprising because it is what everyone suspected when Clinton was let off the hook by the FBI in the summer of 2016. The transcripts just confirm it was Obama's DOJ calling the shots, telling the FBI to back off because they were in charge of the investigation.

I am going to look tonight and see if I can find the transcripts online. I am sure they are in a pdf format somewhere. Basically I honestly believe the people who have gotten away with federal crimes will finally be prosecuted under the new AG's department. It should be interesting. Everyone involved would be in ******* jail if I were in charge.

Stella may have started walking but that didn't mean she was finished with the moooooooing cows. She had to head their direction as she approached the back of the field, just to make sure she was thinking clearly.

She decided it was time to continue the walk but we were at one of the slowest paces ever for this morning walk.

Does that look like it will be 69° by this afternoon?

I had a long phone call yesterday from an old friend that lives in Sacramento. She was driving through San Francisco heading home from one of her consulting jobs. We covered getting older, our health, our dogs and their health, retirement, and then politics. She like many other democrats is hoping that Joe Biden will run. From news reports last night that sounds like a real possibility. Timing is everything and just because he has run twice before  ... doesn't mean he could not win in 2020.

I kept moving way out in front of Stella. I wanted to see how long it would take for her to get back home. I can't really leave her on her own like I could Sadie, because given the chance Stella will veer right and head to the neighbor's yard where there is food left outside for the mystery field cat.

So I kept her within my viewing range and let her roam on her own.  She is slow in everything she does ... except eating. About here I honestly thought I'd go inside and wait for her to come to the door but in that area she would still have the chance to go next door, so I stood in the yard and waited for her.

You can tell by her expression she was not concerned with how long it took her to finish the walk. In fact she still wasn't finished with the walk and had me waiting even longer. With the nice warm morning I didn't mine it at all. In fact I really didn't want to go back inside because it was just that nice.

She continues to head to the house to walk along the side of it ONLY after the morning walk, not in the afternoon walk. How strange is that?

She will also wait for me to open the door, yet yesterday when I came back inside after checking out the pile of eggshells in the field, I heard her trying to open the bedroom door. After letting her and Heidi out of the bedroom I touched the doorknob and felt that familiar bloodhound drool where she had been trying to turn the doorknob to break out.

LOL ... too funny.

This morning after our return I see where Heidi felt the best and warmest place to be sleeping was to have her nose tucked inside the sleeping bag. How many hours in a 24 hour period does a basset hound sleep? All I can say is ... A LOT !!!!

Well it's already late this morning so I need to stop and get this edited and posted. I have a lot more to say, so maybe I'll post again later tonight with some afternoon photos of the hounds.

It's great weather this morning in 'the tropics' of Southern Indiana.

A Spring Day Today

Six days ago this truck delivered something in the field across the highway. If I remember correctly I guess either ground up corn cobs or something that I cannot remember. Well every day since then, my curiosity kept increasing. It got to the point today that I had to walk over and check it out. With the temps around 50°, the hounds and I spent some time outside enjoying the great weather.

You might be able to tell that with all the rain this past week, the pile of 'something' got whiter. Hmmmm, can't be corn cobs. I had no idea what it was, nor have I figured out what the purpose is.

It wasn't warm yet when Stella and I took off this morning but it felt warm. No wind, and the sounds of birds filled the air.

The loud sound of cows, something we rarely hear, confused Stella as she turned to look at me for some answers. They were all the way across the gully and the property behind that.

Again the loud sound of the cows stopped Stella in her tracks. They would be to the far right of the picture, a good distance away, up behind what I call the 'far right corner of the field'.

With good weather in the forecast I wanted to pull my ladder out and clean the gutter where the downspout is attached. On the front gutter I wanted to take that downspout apart because last week when it was raining extremely hard, the water was coming from over the edge of the gutter and out every seam of the downspout. I was in for a huge surprise.

I have a guard that slides down into the downspout to keep the leaves from going down into the downspout on both front and back gutters. The back one had a few wet leaves blocking it so that was not a surprise. What was a huge surprise was not only the front downspout was clear but the whole gutter on front of the house was spotless ... clean. I took the small sections of the downspout apart thinking I'd be pulling wet leaves out of them but they were clear also.

I thought Heidi would spend some time in the backyard since it was such a nice day but as I was putting the ladder away, she was wanting to go back inside. She had no interest in staying outside. Stella on the other hand find it to be the perfect time to wade through the corner of the field that is full of burrs ...

When you see the picture of the field across the highway taken from my house, it looks pretty small. but as you see once you are behind the trees the field goes almost a quarter of a mile, even veering to the right past that row of trees on the right.

Any ideas????

Egg shells.

The field to the left of the one that is always flooded. I've seen water go over the road just past those trees and telephone poles. Below you can see the trash it left when the water receded.

I did a post on that old steel bridge you see, in 2017. You can see more photos of the bridge here. This post also had more pictures of the steel bridge plus the local area since the hounds and I took a drive in May 2016. For that post, click here.

It wasn't long after coming back inside that the hounds took up their normal afternoon positions on the couch and they were back to sleeping a beautiful day away. I just read that huge storms are passing through the central plains tomorrow with extremely high winds. We will get the end of that on Thursday with only 20mph winds and thunderstorms, at least it will be 64° if the forecast is correct.

I added a new link to my sidebar this morning. Very informative and information they don't tell you on the news. His article today will scramble your brain cells but it is the same information I read from the FBI site years ago, as far as the plan of the Muslim Brotherhood. His article today has updated information. Is anyone paying attention to this movement or will they just let them take the country 10-15 years from now?

Well the weather is great so Stella and I will go for an afternoon walk once she wakes up in a few hours. In the meantime my load of laundry is finished in the dryer and it's time to fold them. Baseball starts in 16 days ... it's great to be a sports junkie.

A cool 52° today in 'the tropics' of Southern Indiana.