Cool Cloudy

It'll be hot later. No rain, but a nice enough morning.

 My shaving soap innovation continues to work well. I will keep providing updates on this very important topic. At some point I intend to provide photographs. For such amazing things documentation is good to have. 

Back To Warmth And Sunshine

 Warm but not hot, and cool in the mornings and the evenings. Not too bad, I guess. I am going to enjoy lentils with white and brown rice, pearled barley, seasoned with turmeric, curry powder, paprika, garlic, onion, Sambal Olek, a dash of EVO. This I like as a Sunday primary meal. Sometimes I add chicken breast, and some of the herbal greens that flourish in my backyard but today I'll keep it simple. I've been snacking on the vegetation back there every time I am out. You would be astonished to learn how nourishing and healthy some "invasive weeds" can be. As good as or even better than anything you can find in a supermarket. Easily grown, drought hardy, self-seeding. No effort required. One in particular is anti-inflammatory, as well as a great source of vitamin C, B vitamins, Calcium and Iron. What others spray and attempt to eradicate, is a food crop for those who know. 

No Rain

 Some areas on the plains here did get a fair amount of rain but Lubbock had a light mist for the most part and although yesterday was cool and cloudy and quite gloomy, no rain came, and it was all very disappointing. Our entry into May, the Mary month, will feature mild conditions, no heat wave, and only slight rain chances. Amazingly, when I went to shave this morning, I found my soap mug full of soup! No, not really. And what kind of soup would that have been anyway? A soapy soup, no doubt. 

The sunshine today is welcome, and warming is welcome. 

Windy Cool CLoudy

 So far only a trace of precipitation. A few minutes ago the clouds thinned so much that we got some welcome sunshine. Seems to me that we are going to be unlucky again, and again, and again, and have no rain to speak of. But today I did something revolutionary with my shaving soap. Yes, I like to use a brush and a shaving soap, just as my ancestors did, but I do not use a straight razor although I had a couple at one time and experimented with them but I never felt comfortable with using them and they were a booger to keep sharp. I mean, who wants a strop hanging around? But I had the idea yesterday, of putting the shaving soap in a wide and handled soup mug, and it was a booger of a job to dig that soap out and get it mashed down flat in the soup mug but it works so well now, to lather up, I'm glad I did it and it seems that soup and soap are close enough in spelling, to avoid any conflict or condemnation from on high, in response to this somewhat radical act. I trust it is not in any way unnatural and as I said, the lathering of the brush goes much better and I get a much better lather for shaving. What was once a soup mug is now a soap mug. Kind of boggles the mind and if you think about it too darned much it threatens to booger up one's mind and who needs that? I don't need a boogered up mind any more than I need a strop hanging around. 

Well, I think if I had done what I did publicly, out in front of a multitude, I do believe that many would have been converted on the spot, though some might have been boogered up in various ways. It was a magical thing when you think of it, a thing that WAS a SOUP mug became a thing that IS a SOAP mug, for shaving purposes. Best not to think too hard about it, lest one's mind become seriously boogered up. Save that sort of thing for Quantum Mechanics. 

Cool Today

 Just as forecast. But no rain yet. Very gloomy and the wind chill is uncomfortable. Record heat not long ago, and now this.