Gotta stay cool, relaxed

- Frog friend -

I was thinking the other day that the way to take the measure of a man is to look at him and ascertain whether or not it is likely that he can change a tire. It's a fun game and separates the wheat from the chaff pretty quickly.

I've got to quit watching the Rotan City Council meetings. I commented about it this morning on facebook, spent four hours typing an email to the newspaper, looked for a document for two hours, then turned around and deleted everything. Just gotta look out my own back door and tend to what's there.

The grasshoppers are crazy out here in the country. Last year it was giant ones, this year it's trillions of tiny ones. I got something called Tempo from Ace Hardware in Rotan, and man, does it work. It kinda made me sick at my stomach to see all those dead grasshoppers. 

A little friend joined me in the cellar the other night. It looks like a small frog in the photo, but its head and legs were hanging over my hand when I grabbed it to throw it out. I was sitting in the dark to keep the bugs away and it just plopped right onto that rail. I thought it was a bat until I got the light on it.

Here comes summer after all that rain. I'm surprised every year, even though it's always the same. Good luck to all the tomato and okra growers.