Okay, it’s Friday!!

It’s not quite as hot around here since I last posted, but the increase in humidity more than compensates for that.

Luckily, thunderstorms are supposed to visit us for most of the day. I hope this is true, because they keep saying that — for the last few days — and the thunderstorms haven’t happened. Even though they are clearly visible, approaching on the horizon, they never arrive. Just some light rain. Hence the increased humidity.

I try very, very hard to think straight in high humidity but I am not always entirely successful, gang. I simply can’t breathe right, so there’s not enough oxygen getting to my wee bonny brain!

(And I still can’t help but think that all these White Hats who are pretending that China is our enemy, that Russia is our enemy, that Iran is anyone’s enemy at this point, that Netanyahu wasn’t already dealt with a long time ago…. okay. Methinks these same folks are once again fucking with the weather!)

(Call me crazy!! Whether or not it’s conspiracy-theory related, there is a good chance that I’m crazy about all sorts of things so it’s safe to call me crazy, however… there is still something wacky about this weather!)

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Yesterday was insane.

I was with my favorite client who has recently returned from Florida. All was well until — for privacy reasons I can’t go into the details — I had to drop everything and take her to urgent care.

From there, the entire day went kaflooey! (For some odd reason, I’m being told “kaflooey” is not a word!!) I wish I could tell you why it went kaflooey, just so you could have deep sympathy for me! But I can’t. It is sufficient to say, the urgent care “experience” made me feel like I was losing my mind.

And it had nothing to do with anyone who worked at the urgent care facility…

But it also made me have to work late — by half an hour. And I had that plumber coming!!

But long story short — I got home in time for the plumber. And it was a husband & wife plumbing team. They were really nice. And they fixed my issue in the upstairs ancient bathtub, but they told me that really all those old pipes and fixtures have to be replaced. And that I really, really need to get a water softener put in, because that’s what’s killing the pipes and fixtures. (My house is 126 years old and the upstairs bathtub was installed in the 1940s.)

Anyway! Loyal readers of this lofty blog know that I have no problem whatsoever applying for low income home improvement grants for senior citizens living in rural areas!!!

In fact, I got my home a beautiful new roof that way!! At no cost to me.

So, here’s hoping, a grant from the USDA to update my plumbing will be in my foreseeable future.

Meanwhile, the tub drain is working great for the first time since I bought this house… for now, anyway.

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Apparently, yesterday was Colin Greenwood’s birthday!!

And speaking of the Nick Cave solo tour with Colin Greenwood on bass…

Here’s a photo from the show in Rochefort, France. the other night. Most of the better images were videos. Not many photos that weren’t from hopelessly far away:

And I have to say, that people keep uploading images and videos from the Hamburg shows and it really seems like those shows were kind of spectacular.

Next shows up are in Paris, July 5th & 6th, but both shows are sold out. Only 2 shows left in the entire tour that have tickets available. Buy tickets here.

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Well, on the kitten front…

Bobby Joe (one of 2 kittens that we recently noticed are actually males), managed to give himself a terrific black eye, from all his jumping and leaping and going generally nuts when he’s playing with the other kittens.

A couple days ago, in the really dreadful high heat, his eye began to look horrible. It rolled up in his head and other awful looking – gooey things. So I started lightly swabbing the eyelid with colloidal silver and, voila, it is getting back to normal at a wicked pace! It is almost completely fine already.

This makes 3 cats in less than a year who have had serious eye issues that were — thank God — completely fixed with colloidal silver, gang. (It works on humans, too, of course! Ears, eyes, sinuses, or taken internally. But only twice a day, no more than 10 days in a row.) (I’m not a doctor. I’m not giving you health advice. just sayin’ what works over in our neck of the woods…)

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Today, I’m back with my favorite 94-year-old Japanese man, and I believe it is sushi-sashimi day!! Assuming he feels up to it! It will be nice to just hang out with him — assuming no medical emergencies. We shall see!! (I can’t stress enough how much fun we have whenever we are together, gang.)

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Okay. I guess I better scoot.

Enjoy your Friday wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!!

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I rediscovered this song the other day!! I’d forgotten all about it.

Holy shit, do I love it. It is not only prime Rodney Crowell songwriting, but also Emmylou Harris at the peak of her career.

I definitely used to include this in my sets when I was a singer-songwriter in NYC.

“Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight”, 1978. From the album, Quarter Moon in a Ten-Cent Town. Enjoy, gang!!!

“Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight”

Mary took to running with a travelin’ man
Left her momma crying with her head in her hands
Such a sad case, so broken hearted
She say mom, I got to go, I gotta get outta here
I gotta get out of town; I’m tired of hanging around
I gotta roll on between the ditches

It’s just an ordinary story ’bout the way things go
Round and around nobody knows, but the highway
Goes on forever, that ‘ol highway rolls on forever
Lord she never would’ve done it if she hadn’t got drunk

If she hadn’t started running with a travelin man
If she hadn’t started taking those crazy chances
She say daughter, let me tell you ’bout the travelin kind
Everywhere he’s goin’ such a very short time
He’ll be long gone before you know it, he’ll be long

Gone before you know it
She say never have I known it when it felt so good
Never have I knew it when I knew I could
Never have I done it when it looked so right
Leaving Louisiana in the broad daylight

This is down in the swampland, anything goes
It’s alligator bait and the bars don’t close
It’s the real thing down in Louisiana

Did you ever see a Cajun when he really got mad
When he really got trouble like a daughter gone bad
It gets real hot down in Louisiana

The stranger better move it or he’s gonna get killed
He’s gonna have to get it or a shotgun will
It ain’t no time for lengthy speeches
There ain’t no time for lengthy speeches
She say never have I know it when it felt so good

Never have I knew it when I knew I could
Never have I done it when it looked so right
Leaving Louisiana in the broad daylight
It’s just an ordinary story ’bout the way things go
Round and around nobody knows, but the highway goes on forever
There ain’t no way to stop the water

c – 1978 – Rodney Crowell, Donovan Cowart