PORCH PONDERINGS

When to take a bath

Not too much excitement today. All but a small bit of change in the temperatures. It is almost tolerable as I sit now on the porch to compose this message. Still no rain. I watched radar last night. Rain west and south, rain west and north, rain north and east. No rain here. Almost like we are in some sort of impenetrable bubble. Strange.

DId anyone take notice of this blurb on the CNN Facebook feed?
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/27/entertainment/ashton-kutcher-mila-kunis-bathing

Seems these two celebs have quite a dim view of bathing, themselves and their children. Well, that is all well and good. To each his own. The modern norms are to beat down any normal smells. Heaven forbid anyone has any dirt or grime. Any normal smell at all.

Not all that long ago it was not normal to bathe as often as we do now. Showers daily, or as some do two or three times a day, were not normal. Once a week a bath. And perhaps if you were on a farm, such as in this area, you shared the bathwater. Water is precious here.

In medieval times bathing was considered evil. Of course, people never washed their clothes either, so, there was some strange thinking among the peasants. From what I understand, they wore their garments til they rotted off, kind of an ugly thought. Some people now change clothes several times a day.

As the population on Earth grows, water will become scarce. I think we are already seeing that happening in parts of the US. In our part of the world, there are now water restrictions in Billings, MT. Roundup gets its water from a well, and so far hasn't restricted water usage. But I can see that happening if this drought continues much longer.

We personally have stopped watering our grass, we only water our trees, our shrubs, our garden is drip irrigated. We also are watering 3x a week some sod we laid a few weeks ago. That's it

I saw some rain on radar tonight. Maybe it'll make it here before it evaporates.