Winding to a close.

Sunflower "Garden Statement.", a photo by Leenechan on Flickr.

How is it possible? It's only the first week of August!

We still have a few flowers to look forward to. Floribunda rose "Moondance" is having another go of it. Five more flower buds! Fresh and green! I hope that the bugs leave them alone this time; I really want to see what they can do. A few morning glories have popped in the back, but I want to wait until the flowers in the front open before I take a picture for the best display. The asters usually don't bloom until September. And those "weird poppies"...any day now. I threw down a packet of seeds in late May and now I have five plants.

One "Snowpuff" cosmos is almost open all the way. It is a very strange flower. I'll have to wait until it's open completely before I take a photo.

I have a canker sore inside my cheek that's so painful that I've been thinking of ending my own life. I've had it for two weeks already.

It actually hurts a little less this morning...maybe I should stay my hand...

Things that go BOOM! in the night.

So Kristen and I were hanging out in the basement last night watching Sanjuro off the DV-R when we heard a very loud explosion in the laundry room. At first Kristen thought it was the furnace, which is located at the far left of the room and is prone to all sorts of malfunctions. I didn't think so, because I didn't smell smoke, and when the furnace has mishaps it makes a very different kind of boom. I thought it might have been coming from the downstairs bathroom. The toilet pump, maybe? Everything seemed normal around there. I went upstairs to see if anyone (like Lucas) had knocked something over that only made a sound like an explosion. Nothing.

So just as we were about to work ourselves into a full panic, Kristen mentioned that it kind of sounded like a soda can exploding, like they sometimes do when the refrigerator is too cold and they freeze. I checked the downstairs refrigerator and found a can of Diet Coke with Lime blown out in the back of the bottom shelf. There was Coke-colored slush all over the inside of the fridge. XD

Apparently, we had forgotten to replace the thermometer in the fridge. It's 24 degrees in there. This morning when I was upstairs washing dishes I heard another can explode. Holy crap. I haven't had that happen since the microfridge I kept in my college dorm froze all my seltzer water!