Was looking for something pertinent to the current heat wave but found this instead:
YOUR CHEATIN' BUTT

Sorry. Worked late. Spaced out. SPACESHIP AGGA RUTER (huh?)

The beach is crazy right now. Zillions of those little purple things with little sails (not the jellyfish but if anybody knows what they are called please tell me) washed up so the whole beach looks lavender. Tiny little jellies the size of half-dollars, and slightly larger bells that look like they came out of those single-serving fluted Jell-o molds. I go ahead and pick them up - they are so pretty and transparent. Gazillions of teensy baby sand crabs lurking just under the surface of the sand, making their little air-holes and wiggling like mad if you dig at them. One dead sea lion that the crows were enjoying (have you noticed that the crows keep getting bigger every year?). Lots of sand dollars. A bulldozer on the never-ending fruitless quest to put the sand back in the water. The guy with the really long-tailed kite that he flies for hours on end, making spirals and loops . All this in one walk. BLACKENED BEACH WHORES

I have become an Animal Planet addict. One thing I have noticed (besides the alarming number of bird owners who let their birds peck food out of their open mouths) is that almost every kind of animal likes to play with a nice big bouncy ball. Not only the usual dogs and cats, but horses, camels, elephants, cows, bears, lizards, etc. Sometimes they get the kind with a handle on it and they just go bonkers - throwing it and shaking it and banging it around. Plus there is something very cool about a big ole' elephant sitting its butt on a ball in the water until the ball comes flying out - I remember doing that with inner tubes in the pool. How neat is it that there is a simple object in this world that can cause such universal joy? BEAR BALL