It's been stupid hot recently.  I hate it.  At least the hot part of summer didn't hit until July this year.  On the first of July I planted some cotton seeds in a pot, just to see if they would do anything.  One tried to do something.

Toothpicks so I know where the seeds should be

That was on July 5th.  One little bugger was all sorts of eager to get growing!

One day later!

Holy crap, this is amazing!  One day and it went from small to rather big.  Yay!!

Rain drops are nice

Some epic rains on July 7th that really didn't drown any of my plants.  I figured the bit of rain it got would be fine for it's speedy growth.

So tall!!

I was gone on the 8th, so I missed a day, but that's okay, it grew a bit so it was towering over the toothpick.  For the next 8 days it didn't really get any taller, so I didn't take any more pics.  Was waiting for more leaves to appear.  That didn't happen...

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The evening of the 16th it was fine, but the morning of the 17th I was greeted with this horrible sight.  The only difference in all that time was that the 15th through now was 100 everyday.  Kinda on the horribly hot side.  Some of my flowers were a bit wilty, but not like this.  I watered poor little cotton anyway, but I haven't see him bounce back.  :(

To end on happier note, here is a picture of a sunflower, with some sort of bug.

Taken with a real camera!

Happy and not happy

Happy because yesterday my awesome husband graduated from the NCO Academy.  A big congratulations to all the graduates!!

Sorry!  Didn't get everyone, but congrats to all the graduates!

He finally is home now after 6 weeks in San Antonio.  We did get to the zoo, ate at a few restaurants we don't have locally, and he got to meet some of my family that live in San Antonio.  Didn't get to the Alamo, but I guess that's a reason to go back.

Not happy because I did my nails on Monday for his graduation.  Why not happy?  They were perfect until yesterday when I noticed 4 bits of polish missing from 3 fingers.  I have no idea what happened.  I did everything like normal, the only difference was that I used my new OPI polishes, Silver Canvas with Indigo Motif stamped over.  They looked great.

Need to work on my stamping, but I love how vibrant that blue is.

I really thought the only problem at first was the bubbles in my top coat.  I didn't care.  All the bubbled parts are still intact.  Guess I need new top coat??

I did my nails on Monday because I was going to leave Tuesday.  Uh, nature said no.

That brown part was about a foot deep, and was flowing like a river.

Sudden downpour, but not a short downpour.  It was stupidly raining for almost an hour.  I have no idea how much we got, but it had to be a couple inches.

Poor little plants.

Perfectly clear pic! Okay, I shot through a sheet of water, but still a lot of water!

Of course with that crap ton of rain and it all moving generally east (the direction I needed to travel), I didn't leave until super early yesterday morning.  The only good thing about leaving at 6am is that traffic is almost nonexistent.

Back to happy.  I hadn't looked at my spearmint since Monday.  Apparently it's shooting out flowers EVERYWHERE.  Too bad it was windy today.

Flowers all over the one, uh, stem? branch? shoot?

ZOMG! Flowers EVERYWHERE!

Spearmint is just flower happy.  We had spearmint growing in front of my house in Utah.  I do not recall it ever flowering.  I didn't even know mint flowered at all until I was in my mid 20s.  Yeah, dumb me, but it was not something I ever thought about.

It's been a while...

I don't understand why I'm so tired.  Okay, maybe I do.  Husband has been gone and I've been running my mom around to all her doctor appointments and errands.  I swear I'm busier now that I have a car.  This week is going to kick my ass.  I just got home from San Antonio and I get to head back again later this week, and mom's stuff also.  Can I have next week off????

Let's see, what's happened in the last week or so...  I made a new friend.

Squirrel getting fat on the peanuts husband threw at it.

Okay, squirrels are not friends, or even friendly, but this one was bold.  Came up to us and husband threw some peanuts at it.  I'm guessing this squirrel is used to begging for handouts.

Pixel was being Pixel...

Meow

I really don't know why he has to be under rugs or blankets.  I have a million pics of him doing this.  As long as he's happy, I have no problem with it.

I found my mug...

Life, uh, finds a way.

I had to take the pic like that.  Mom's cat Nick was just standing there, so of course I had to make it look like the mug was growing a cat out of it.  I was obsessed with Jurassic Park back in the day.  I read the book before the movie came out.  A bit of disappointment at some of the changes for the movie, but it was good.  Saw it at least 5 times in the theater.  Saw Jurassic World last week, so yeah, I remembered I had this mug somewhere at my mom's house.  Found it, so now it's here with me.  I can't believe that was 22 years ago.  I swear I'm really not that old!!

So there was a bird just hanging out in the middle of mom's driveway.

It's the tiny thing in the vent reflection

I shooed it into the weeds so I wouldn't run over it.  It didn't seem injured or in distress, just stupid for hanging out where my tires travel.  Since it went back in the driveway on my way out I got a better picture (even though the above was taken on my way out).

Where is the boy bird?!?!?!!!!

After a bit of time searching online I discovered that this is a female Painted Bunting.  If you don't know, males are VERY colorful.  Here, have a link to explain and show you the pretty males.  If there is a female, surely there is a male around somewhere, right?!

The day I left for the 4th of July weekend this arrived.

Oh.Em.Gee. I might die from how bright they really are.

Yup, my OPI Color Paints arrived.  I made sure they were okay, snapped a pic, then ran out the door.  I haven't even swatched them yet.  I can't do anything with them until Friday.  *pout* This makes me sad.

Fourth of July nails!!!!

So much for trying to use tinsel instead of my rock...

My poor ring finger.  The only finger to not get that awesome Star Blast Off glitter from Sinful Colors.  I tried to do a reverse stamping decal thing.  It was stupid stiff and did not want to stick to the nail.  I think there are about 8 layers of polish in there - 2 coats of Zoya Trixie for the base, then one clear to get it to stick and 5 more to make it stay down.  I need to watch a few more tutorials on reverse stamping.

San Antonio is GREEN.

Sunset is a bitch to get nice pics

I dunno, I just thought this was nice and green.  It's green here too, but it's just odd to me that Texas is all sorts of green.  I've never seen it like this.  I'm enjoying it.