Daily Archive: June 13, 2004

My 45-minute walk this evening was slowed by grass. Wild grass. Ornamental grass. Plumy, wavy, bowing, grainy grass. 14 completely different kinds. I don’t know the names of any of them, although after a cursory Google hunt I suspect one of them is wild timothy and one is probably wheat. Or maybe barley, except I think barley has longer awns, the hairlike strands that stand straight up above its seed-filled head. One is almost definitely switchgrass. Some of them are fluffy, some are airy, some are straight and rigid with stair-stepped ladderlike beauty. One looks like a miniature pale-green cat-tail....

This morning, or last night, depending upon how you look at it, was the first time the overabundance of early-morning sunshine has disturbed my sleep. It warmed up a couple of kamikaze flies so much that they decided 4:23 a.m. was the best time to start dive-bombing our heads….bzzzzZZZZZzzzz zzzzzZZZZZZZzzzzzz zzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!! After trying unsuccessfully to ignore them, I was forced to get up and POUND THEM INTO FLY PULP with a fly swatter and then suck their deservedly dead corpses up with the dustbuster. SO satisfying. Unfortunately, the early-morning bed-rage woke me up too much and then the rooster behind...