Thought We Were Done With This....!

    Aren't they beautiful?! Yep! In my backyard!! Just in time for the HEAT WAVE!! UGH! Here we go again! Just as my grass was getting back to itself...

    ...with only a few patchy places left.

    But I'm still trying to keep a positive attitude about it because they say that it's only a 4 day heat wave...in the low 90s...We'll see about that!...In the meantime I'm going to bask in the view of my backyard...

    ....hot? Yes...

    ....but inside here, with the air conditioning, it stills looks pretty nice!! :-)

Hubby's potted plants are going to be protected this time though! He's worked too hard to get them back to a revived state to let them just get sun-logged again! They're looking great now, don't you think?!

    Looks like his sunflowers are going to be popping out any minute! That is, if the sun doesn't scare them back into the house to look for some stronger sun tan lotion!!! (*talking to myself* That's what the sun is doing to people...not plants! Silly! ^_^)

    There's only one big leafed plant in the ground in the backyard that he's worried about...

    ...and not because of the sun. He thinks some critters might be munching on it!...Maybe it just needs some sun!! LOL

    Frankly, even if it was cool outside, I wouldn't be out there! For the next 2 weeks the U.S. Open Tennis Matches will be on. I'm going to be right in front of the T.V., with the A/C on for the next few days, and a crochet project or two...or 3! I'm not going to short-change my God and my spiritual schedule, but everybody and everything else that tries to get my attention for the next two weeks are going to find a distracted, half listening conversationalist! That's your warning!! ^_^

     {Repeating a poem that's appropriate for now. Wrote it a while ago though!}

The 'Racket' Men

Playing tennis with 'Hewitt'

is more like playing with a wall;

Just when you think you've hit a winner-

Oh No!-Look Out!- Here comes the ball!

'Roger Federer's'  shot

changes fast-and that's his key;

But for steady, angled shots,

catch a game with 'Agassi'.

'Roddick's' serve can part your hair;

It comes so fast across the net.

He just gets stronger every year.

(Don't  think we've seen his fastest yet!)

These guys are good as good can get.

I watch intensely-set by set!

A contradiction in...ME!

    Doesn't it look lonely? This is not where a tennis ball is suppose to be...sitting in the grass. It's suppose to be on a court, whether the court is clay, grass, or whatever, getting whacked around by powerful arms, owned by really fit athletes, trying to beat the stew out of it with a racket!!

   Who knew that with all of the other sports to watch right now, I'd be missing tennis so much!...I know, I'm a contradiction. I love flowers, music of all kinds, buttons, and...SPORTS?! Well, YES I DO! :-)) Especially tennis. And I've got to wait until the end of August before another major tennis tournament is on! The U.S. Open. Thankfully, there's still plenty of sports to watch!

   And in my day I loved, not only watching them, but also playing them! In High School I played around with a few of them. I played a little softball, ran a little track...a VERY little...and contemplated football, but they probably wouldn't have let a girl play anyway back then. So, basketball became my sport.  I played first string, for 3 years! I loved the comradery, the exercise, the team rah rah rah...the sweet 3 point shot I had! And considering that I was always the biggest person on the team, and I wasn't considered all that tall...I was pretty good at it! That's my story...and I'm sticking to it! The drawback was that our High School team hardly ever won! LOL Maybe THAT"S why I'm such a 'Lone Wolf' on the whole "team" thing now!!

So, now that tennis is on delay, and basketball...*sniff, sniff*...

 ..it's on delay too. (But it's probably just as well. My Celtics were a sad disappointment this season. And apparently we're not going to get Lebron James for next season either. LOL) So, for now, it's flowers, lots of music, some baseball,...

 ...and a whole lot of cycling!!

   Lance Armstrong is in his very last Tour De France, or so they say. I'm glued to the T.V. every morning, just waiting to see if he's going to do something even more special than his amazing 7 wins. I don't think that's a real possibility, but you never know with Lance! He beat cancer when no one expected him to. And who ever thought he could win the Tour De France 7 times?! But he did! If he does anything close to that this year I don't want to miss it!!

   The good thing with the contradiction of ME is that I'm hardly ever bored. There is always someone to talk to, something to look at, something to listen to, or something to crochet!!...Exactly how far away is August anyway?!!

The 'Racket' Men

Playing tennis with 'Hewitt'

is more like playing with a wall;

Just when you think you've hit a winner,

Oh No!-Look Out!- Here comes the ball!

'Roger Federer's'  shot

changes fast, and that's his key;

But for steady, angled shots,

catch a game with 'Agassi'.

'Roddick's'  serve can part your hair;

It comes so fast across the net.

He just gets stronger every year.

(Don't think we've seen his fastest yet!)

If you want to see the best,

these guys are good as good can get.

From one tournament to the next,

I watch intensely-set by set!