Monday through Thursday, July 14-31, 2025—Hot, Hot Weather

We came home, albeit jet-lagged, to find high temperatures and humidity settled over the area,, Despite the weather, we immediately jumped back into our routine. Mondays were pickleball for Kay and golf for me, Tuesdays were for pickleball for me in the mornings, and unplanned the rest of the day, though it seemed like we were busy. Wednesdays were golf for Kay, and I usually took a free day to do a few chores, work on photos, and write/edit BLOGs and VLOGs. Thursdays were a repeat of Mondays, Fridays were pickleball for both Kay and me, Saturdays were pickleball for the both of us, and Sundays were for church and possible golfing together. However, the heat and humidity kept us inside for a few days—generally when the heat index was above 100°.

In addition to the activities mentioned above, Kay stays really busy with her social calendar full with women’s groups, church activities, and various luncheons. Meanwhile, I have been toying around with sourdough for a while now, but the starter being used went bad (failure to feed time). Thus, a new starter was created but took about 10 days to mature enough to use. The resulting lemony blueberry muffins were quite good.

Regrettably, Kay contracted the cold virus I had been experiencing, and ran a bit of fever and started coughing. She visited the walk-in clinic and received some scripts and a steroid shot.

I began working on BLOGs for the recent trip “Paris and Swiss Alps”. The BLOGs were pretty easy as most of the work was done in Europe during downtime. The VLOGs, however, were a different matter, requiring hours upon hours of editing photos, editing videos, creating graphics, doing voice overs, etc. Each VLOG for YouTube requires about 25 hours!

During the course of the remainder of July, I was able to photograph butterflies and dragonflies eight different days. We have immensely enjoyed the tiny butterfly garden, and it has brought us much peace and tranquility, as well as excitement when a new species shows up. Rather than bore you with gobs of photos, here are a few selections.

Monday, July 14