{"id":2176,"date":"2022-06-22T20:04:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T01:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/?p=2176"},"modified":"2022-06-24T12:38:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T17:38:32","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulettejiles.com\/pj_wp\/catching-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had a barbecue here two week ago and all the musicians came, Ashley Kay bless her little heart acted as hostess so I could talk to people and play with the band, and Ben Taylor cooked and brought friends and so the only picture I got from the whole shebang was one of the wonderful Bailey McLeod, who won this belt buckle for hog wrestling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She said it was a very little hog. Every year they have a hog wrestling contest in the town of Sabinal, 20 miles south of here, and she went down to show the Sabinal girls how a hog should be wrestled and she won! Bailey is fifteen. Yay Bailey!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a great party. But you can see what the drought has done to my yard. After a while I just gave up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update; I couldn’t stand it. Decided to water and at least have one green, wet oasis in all this dun-colored, dusty, dead-grass dry and droughty land. This colorless land. I figured I had better do it now before we are under water restrictions. When I turn on the sprinkler the birds go mad with joy and chirp,twitter, sing and dash in and out of the sprinkler. Suddenly the trees out front are alive with birds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And the intense colors of red and blue are a relief to the eye even if they are artificial. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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