ANSWERS MAY NEVER FIND US

An abundance of sunshine beaming into our living room window this morning told me we were probably in for another hot and sticky day.  In less than a month there will be a subtle and hardly noticed change in the air as the earliest hints of autumn begin to stir.  I am already looking forward to the approach of my favorite time of year.

Area farmers are calling Wednesday evenings deluge of water a million-dollar rain.  Crops were sure needing it and on our walk this morning between two cornfields I was delighted to hear the sounds of newly refreshed corn stalks giggling in the brisk southwesterly breeze.  Saw my first corn cob of the year and I noticed some of the corn stalks were beginning to grow tassels.  Corns up an average of nearly 6' now as summer marches steadily onward.

 OUR AREAS CORN IS GETTING HIGH

 MY FIRST SIGHTING OF A CORN COB THIS YEAR

 ATOP THAT COBBED CORN STALK CAN BE SEEN A TASSEL

 A MILKWEED FLOWER

A phone call from my good buddy Richard this morning boosted my day.  Even though we are 600 miles apart now it was great to hear from him and we were once again able to find ourselves a few answers to many of the world's most unanswerable questions.  I like when that happens:))

 DRIVING BETWEEN TWO HARVESTED WHEAT FIELDS

 HERES US GUYS OUT AND ABOUT THIS MORNING

Because of the outside heat, it turned out to be an inside day and I was quite fine with that.  With my reading hobby bringing me many enjoyable and educational hours of reading I spent a fair bit of time with my books again.  Following are two of my recent reads.  I will reserve commenting on each book except to say I found, and am finding these books excellent reads with each one leaving me with a much better feeling about the future, and the future beyond the future.  Recently finished 'On Death and Dying' by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and I am currently reading 'Journey Of Souls' by Dr. Michael Newton.  Non-fiction books by the way.  I am of the firm belief now that if we don't put forth the effort to search for answers, answers may never find us.   

I liked this time-lapse colorful video of New York City as seen from the river.  New York Skyline By Night

GROANER'S CORNER:(( You know it is time to reassess your relationship with your computer when....

1. You wake up at 4 o'clock in the morning to go to the bathroom and stop to check your email on the way back to bed.

2. You turn off your computer and get an awful empty feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.

3. You decide to stay in college for an additional year or two, just for the free internet access.

4. You laugh at people with 28.8 modems.

5. You start using smileys :-) in your snail mail.

6. You find yourself typing 'com' after every period when using a word.

7. You can't correspond with your mother because she doesn't have a computer.

8. When your email box shows 'no new messages' and you feel really depressed.

9. You don't know the gender of your three closest friends because they have nondescript screen name and you never bothered to ask.

10. You move into a new house and you decide to 'Netscape' before you landscape.

11. Your family always knows where you are.

12. In real-life conversations, you don't laugh, you just say 'LOL, LOL'.

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Husband and wife were having a discussion about their in-laws. The wife declares that she "hates" her in-laws.  The husband replies, "I like your mother-in-law more than I like mine!"

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