July 17th

On the 20th we'll celebrate 50 years since the Apollo Moon Landing.
I gotta tell you.
I was beyond excited about seeing this momentous event on TV.
50 years!
It's amazing to think of this.
I can tell you exactly what I was doing.
I was laying on the floor of our living room with my eyes glued to the grainy,
black and white images on our small TV, waiting for those men to do the unthinkable
and actually walk on the surface of the moon!
In the few years from 1952 to 1969 so much happened!
The Korean War, rise of the Boomer generation, TV dinners,
fast food establishments, the death of my father, death of a beloved uncle,
the death of a beloved president, Civil Rights movement,
Vietnam Conflict, and the Space Race.
Russia launched Sputnik in 1957, but we had to get our stuff together
and be the best of the best. So, it was on!
In the year 1969 there was so much going on in my 17 year old world....
The Beatles last performance on the roof of Apple Records,
Charles Manson's cult murdered 5 people,
Ted Kennedy was embroiled in the Chappaquiddick affair,
Vietnam atrocities on TV every night on the Nightly News,
Acquaintances on the lists of  war casualties,
Woodstock, the mother of all music festivals,
Apollo missions to get us to the ultimate goal of making it to the moon,
and then....
Apollo 11 landed in the Sea of Tranquility on the face of the moon!!
UN-FREAKING-BELIEVABLE!
(Although my Grandmother was a vocal disbeliever that they went there)
Those words, "The Eagle has landed!" made me get goosebumps.
Then I was holding my breath as Mr Armstrong said, "One small step for man,
one giant leap for mankind!".
Thanks to a great American hero,
Neil Armstrong 8/5/1030 - 8/25/2012

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The Gardenias are still blooming.

Asparagus 

Cucuzza flower.

Hopefully it will bear fruit!

Sunflowers

I love them!

Blood oranges

That's 5 of them in a cluster.

It's been so wet that mushrooms 

have sprouted in the mint.

I got rid of them but,

I searched for more just in case.

This is a big weird shaped white mushroom 

in the big aloe vera plant

This is a side view of it.

Very weird.

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This is Nugget

Her comb is split on the back side.

You can see how it isn't attached there.

No bleeding, although it looked like dried 

blood near the top of her head.

Well, ain't this is a new wrinkle in raising chickens!

I didn't know what to do for her.

So, I looked it up.

Apparently, it is common for a chicken, 

especially one with a prominent

comb, to have it caught on something

or to have another chicken or predator bite it off.

Treatment is to clean the area with 1/2 strength 

perodixide, apply something like neosporin,

unless the comb is hanging almost off,

then you need to cut it off and apply

super glue as a wound sealer

after it stops bleeding. 

O.K.

Well....

Wasn't prepared for that!

They even show pictures of how to remove the 

comb with sanitized scissors and to stitch

it up if necessary.

Whew!

Don't know if I'll have to go that far.

Yesterday, we cleaned the area,

and applied NuSkin,

hoping it would adhere the two pieces.

Well, that didn't happen.

This morning, the area is turning black.

Crap!

I may have to preform chicken surgery.

And,

the CEO said "that's your job!"

So,

I'm waiting till he comes home.

I need a surgical assistant

and

a glass of wine!

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I had to remind myself of this definition.

I hate this word!

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 Tonight is a "Full Buck Moon"

It's called that because a buck's antlers

are in full growth mode at this time.

So,

Look up tonight!