Shame on me!

I have not been following through with this Magic Birthday Blog exactly as I intended, but then, things never go quite as we intend. Since I am the writer of this blog, and since it is MY magic birthday year, and MY magic birthday list, then I have finally figured out this is the one thing that I am the complete boss of! So, I am making an exectuive decision . . . the Magic Birthday List will officially end when all the items on the list are finished, and that may take more than a year! Due to my incredibly busy, yet boring, life, there are not enough vacant hours available to accomplish everything in such a time frame as a year, especially as some items on the list only occur with infrequent frequency- for instance, my schedule has not allowed us to be able to go to Tri-State Speedway this season (we went to our neighbor's annual Labor Day Cook-Out on the evening we could have gone to Tri-State) and we also missed the Mesker Summer Movie Nights, due to vacation or work or something or other. So those are things we will have to pick up next summer, being as summer is over now. Gee. Summer is over.

At this point I have to complain. It really wasn't that great of a summer - it started off fine, my Magic Birthday Garden thriving, the grass growing, and then . . . . . . then, the heat. Now I know that is normal with summer but it was relentless this year , and the WORST part was, NO RAIN! We seriously have had barely an inch of rain since July. My grass is gone, some flowers made it through ok, but not looking the greatest, and my poor tomatoes are cherry tomatoes even though they're not. And I have watered as best I can, but it's not good enough. Sigh. Now it is one of my favorite times of year, and still, no rain. It is so DRY! Not that I want a deluge, or anything, but still . . .

End of complaints. I will get back to this soon, with all the things I WAS able to do on the list and the continuing thrills thereof. . .