Well, it's the dog days of summer down here. I run out every now and then and move the sprinklers trying to save the lawn. When I moved to this house in 2005 the lawn was very pretty, front and back. A headway has been made in bringing it back to what it once was. I have spent hundreds of dollars in water fees to do it too. As far as working in the yards in August, the chance of heatstroke is high. This morning Biloxi's Mayor, A. J. Holloway was taken to the hospital and was found to be suffering from dehydration... he spent the past weekend working in his yards. I have often spoken aloud that our world is growing old. It seems that not too many years ago, everything was new and now much is rundown and has become downright "seedy" in all of our states. The catastrophe in Minnesota, did it have to happen? Are we in such a hurry to build something else that we don't maintain what we have? The list of deficient bridges in the United States didn't surprise me. An official from MDOT said Mississippi didn't have any defective bridges. Yes we do, we all do. The Biloxi-Ocean Springs bridge that went down in Katrina was heavily damaged by Camille in 1969 and steadily got worse. The shocks on our cars were most likely damaged riding across as you bounced so much that your head would sometimes hit the top liner. If children were in the car with you they would be saying, "Wheeeeee - this is fun!" We need to slow down and enjoy what we do have. I was out driving around today and I got a few pictures. It's all so slow. We are not out of survival mode.

Washington Avenue

Ingalls Avenue

Moss Point - Telephone Road