I cannot believe we are already moving into the last full week of July 2023. The year is half over.

The overcast morning is hovering at 64 degrees for the moment and anticipates mastering 84 degrees with possible showers throughout the afternoon. In ten minutes, the entire day’s forecast may change, and do so until 11:59 PM. Ohio weather is predictably unpredictable.

There is little to report. My week is looming with activity and long hours downtown for house managing events. While it can be tiring, I am not on my feet the entire time and there is little moving around.

A Bird Song

Christina Rossetti  1830 – 1894

It’s a year almost that I have not seen her:

Oh, last summer green things were greener,

Brambles fewer, the blue sky bluer.

It’s surely summer, for there’s a swallow:

Come one swallow, his mate will follow,

The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.

Oh happy swallow whose mate will follow

O’er height, o’er hollow! I’d be a swallow,

To build this weather one nest together.

Make it a great day!