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Looks like you had a.nice day. The fruit really looks good.. Not at all like our farmer's markets in Okla. I don't think they even have one in the town where I.go. They do.have farmer's trucks with produce, most melons. My favorite watermelon is orange inside but hard to.find. I still haven't. cut the one I bought.. Should.cut it and take half to my.good neighbors.

I heard something on the world.news tonight that brought tears to my eyes.. Not sure where it was but a policeman left two police dogs in his car with motor off and windows up. He left them in the hot car for seven hours and they suffocated. What a terrible death for them. They say the temp in a car goes up to 124 in about 20-30 min. How could he forget two dogs in the car. My car has a warning if anything is in the back seat when you turn off the motor. He had been suspended. He needs more than that! So many little kids die when they're left in hot cars. Stormy goes outside long to take care of business and to check out things, then back inside. With his double coat he can't stand hot weather but loves snow. You all sleep well tonight and stay cool.

For sure I remember Wilma Mankiller! Charles was part Cherokee, I'm only a 32 nd, and she was his heroine. We thought she was a good Chief and I think Chuck Hoskin is, too. He has done a lot for the Cherokees. You know.John Ross is buried in our family cemetery. He was the Principal Chief during the Trail of Tears. They used to.have a play - Trail of Tears-in an ampitheater that was very good.

You know I could look out my office window and see the Five Civilized Tribes Museum but never went in. When the Hospital had.visitors from Washington they always took them to the Museum. It was a Mission for Creek Freedmen in the 1880s before it became the Museum.

Charles'mother was on the Cherokee rolls but not sure Charles was. He could have gotten a Cherokee car tag if we.had lived in that Nation so maybe he was. His.family wss Cherokee and Osage but for some reason they never claimed Osage...Probably should have because the Osage had a lot of oil money. His aunt lived in Osage County and when his mother would.visit us we would take her to see.her sister. When we would.cross the Arkansas River she always commented about the State selling their sand. I should watch Killers of the Flower Moon.

Iris, Okla. also has a lot of casinos. I.can think of three within 30 miles of me. I have never been inside one. Most of them have pretty names like Indigo Sky, River Spirit, River Wind and many more.

Eagle, for sure I know about humidity especially after all the rain and greenery we have. Too hot for man or beast. That's why I wanted the barn open for the.girls. We have a South wind today.and it makes it cooler for them with north and south doors open so the wind can blow through. I was out on the porch a couple of hours ago trimming Stormy's nails and they were leaving the shade going to the barn. Smart girls!

You all stay cool- fall is only a couple of months away!!

Sounds good, Carl. I still need to cut that watermelon and those two cantalopes.

Morning, everyone. Ron, glad you have ointment for your rash and.hope it works quickly. It's 87 but already feels like 100 with a good south wind, thank goodness.

I cut the waterme!on and a big cantaloupe, with one half of each a bit larger.Stormy and I just took the larger halves over to Darwins. Knocked on the door a couple or times but decided they were asleep so left the sack in front of the doior. Called when I got home and he had found them.. Said they finished theirs yesterday. It was a seedless watermelon - pretty good but just not as good as the ones with seeds.

I usually cut the cantaloupe and peel it and put it in the refrigerator ready to eat.We used to raise a lot of melons and I would often take half a cantaloupe to work for lunch and put either cottage cheese or ice cream in the middle. Still would like to find an Orange watermelon. I bought one a couple of years ago and it was $12. Daddy raised melons one year and a semi came in and bought them for fifty cents each. That was probably 70 years ago. They weighed some of them and I remember sitting on one that weighed 80 pounds. Probably Black.Diamonds.

Ron or Carl, I think one.of you said the best way to eat a watermelon is to break one open in the patch and take out the heart with your fingers and eat it. I wholly agree - have done that many times. Same with tomatoes -pick one off the vine, wipe it off and eat like an apple.

Filled the water tank this morning just as the girls were coming in. Funny the way the babies will stop and watch me as I talk to them. I can ask one of the cows where her baby is and she will turn around and look for it. Years ago we had a cow we called Freckles, red white faced with tiny red spots on her face. She had her calf in tall grass in the meadow and Charles and I were looking for it. We would ask her where it was and she would take off one way - opposite from where the calf was. She didn't want us to find it. I.guess once you've raised cattle and took care of them, you never forget it and always miss them. I'm glad they're home. So sorry I have been so loquacious this morning.

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Sorry about the outcome of the game, Judith. I watched the last 15 minutes. I laughed when either an announcer or a coach said " at least Norway showed people how to row a boat". I enjoyed watching the syncronized rowing.

Thanks, Carl, sometimes I.do tend to go on about the farm. I have lived on the farm all but about two Years of my.life with those two years spread out over the part of my life when I was much younger. I was born in our front bedroom and.hoped I never have to leave.

Carl, is all the flooding in Missouri east.of you and Ron, toward St. Louis? It looks terrible with people hanging onto trees or on top of their house.

Enjoy the sweet.corn. We used to raise Kandy Korn and it was so sweet and good. You know the easiest way to cook it besides boiling? Put butter.on it and wrap tightly in waxed.paper, twisting the ends tightly and microwave it.. Can't remember.how long but we did that often. Works.really well on corn you have frozen, too.

Several.Oklahoma counties are under a severe thunderstorm watch - not out county but two just West of us are. Been uber hot here today. I watched an interesting show this afternoon about Belle Star. She wss from your part.of the world, Carl, until she moved to Indian Territory. There's a Belle Start marina on Lake Eufaula. Never been there.

Sleep well tonight, everyone.

You may get more rain and storms tonight, Carl. I just checked the radar and storms are lined up from NW to SE across NE Okla.- not sure which way they're going. Weather says they're having heavy rain in Tulsa- 2.5" already with street flooding. Not here yet. Try the microwave thing with your corn - just like fresh corn.

Thanks, Goodlife, I'll try not to bore everyone.