What I did for Father's Day
I spent part of Father's Day sitting under a shade tree in my back yard just thinking. What was I thinking about, you ask? Well, part of my thoughts were about my Son, his Cajun-to-the-bone wife (I love her for her spunk), and my beautiful Granddaughter.
Part of the thought time was consumed however with the darned tree that was providing me shade. You see, every time the wind blows, it sheds a ton of leaves on me and more importantly, in my gutters. The tree is dying from the ground up and I will be glad when it sheds its last leaves, but in the meantime, I regularly bring the ladder up from the basement and do the gutter cleaning thing. I am just glad I own a one story home.
Some of my afternoon was spent contemplating slime mold. I spread mulch around some of my shrubs and was proud of the way the yard was looking...until a few days ago and this gross patch of "stuff" appeared in the mulch. I kicked it around and buried it (I thought) in the mulch. It wasn't any more than an hour later the patch was back. Now, a few days later, I have a healthy crop of slime mold that refuses to go away.
Hope all the Fathers out there had as much of a thought provoking day as I did.