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With this heat wave, it gets very hard to be motivated enough to cut the grass and do other chores outdoors.

It seems that most of the country is having a very hot summer, with record setting high temperatures all along the East Coast and throughout the southeast. The temperature has been above 90 degrees since the third week of May. We may well set a new record for the number of consecutive days with temperatures above 90 degrees.

With all this rain and the grass growing like crazy, this is going to be a banner year for ticks, fleas and other outdoor bugs. I’m mostly worried about mosquitoes. I do go outdoors enough during the week to make it worthwhile slathering on insect repellent, so I feel like a moving target at dusk. On the weekends if I’m outside, I’ll go ahead and use some bug spray.

Time for my dogs to get their Frontline so they are protected against the bugs, too.

There has been all kinds of stories on the internet and TV about this kook in California who gave birth to a litter of 8 babies. This kind of irresponsible action by a crazy woman makes me sick. Its bad enough that she chose to have 8 babies at once. But it turns out that she has 6 others already at home. Let me tell you, that first 6 was too many. To have another 8 is just grossly irresponsible. There is no way a single mom can possible take care of and financially support 14 children by herself. Good luck finding a man to date, too. Stupid women shouldn’t be allowed to breed.

Peanut butter and peanut butter products are being recalled practically daily. The FDA has a list of recalled peanut products on their web site.

They keep saying that the regular jars of peanut butter sold on grocery shelves are not part of this recall. They say that the recalled products are food that contain peanut butter like commercially made peanut butter cookies, crackers, cereal, candy and ice cream.

I’m a fan of peanut butter and I don’t like the way new products keep being discovered each week and get added to the list. Some things you thought were safe last week are now not safe and should be destroyed. What is taking them over a month to discover the tainted products that keep getting added to this list? WTF?