Thursday, 24 August 2023
Today was Day2 of overcast; tomorrow may be the same. Not inspiring. Nice to not have wind, as you see early this evening.
I got the thistle terminology wrong on Tuesday. The spiky parts are prickles, and my derived word for the entire plant was prickers. Still is (in my head).
Sunday, 20 August 2023
Warm night last night, only down in the high 60s. Tonight it’s almost that cool now, heading down to the high 50s. I suspect I’ll sleep better tonight.
Feeling for the people of SoCal, Baja, and that area; they probably aren’t sleeping well at all.
Friday, 18 August 2023
The wind blew itself out, as Mom used to say. The lake level is lower than when we left, but the point still isn’t as pointy as it was.
Still haven’t been able to return to my before-10am outdoor work schedule. It’ll come.
Thursday, 17 August 2023
It was windy all last evening, then the rain came in at something like 2am, still with the wind. I did not sleep well, but I did sleep. Sometime late morning the rain quit, and the sun even came out once or twice. We sure did need the rain, and I guess the wind assured that the rain got everywhere, including under the trees and on the were-wilty lilacs. Now it’s quiet again, but it wasn’t much of a work-day or a fun-day.
By the way, this is deer-trimmed mint…in bloom.
Wednesday, 16 August 2023
We treated ourselves to smoked menominee. Thank you, fishy. Usually we get whitefish. The two species are cousins (and both in the salmon group). I was surprised that (today anyway) I liked the menominee better than the whitefish we had last time.
Windy now and building since late this afternoon. Supposed to continue all night. Rrrr.
Friday, 11 August 2023
This morning’s weather excitement…less scary than it looks.
Yesterday’s weather fun. We got a lot of green rain. I was oh kay.
Thursday, 10 August 2023
This ginger is meh this year; last year on this day I captured its showiness.
Tuesday, 8 August 2023
Unexpected…we had a windy phase without rain. Fortuately, no trees fell near us…and our power persisted.
Monday, 7 August 2023
After wind, lightning, and rain came through at evening rush hour, things became just humid, and I went to book club. We never lost power; plenty of households have around the area since this morning. ( Here’s my neighbors’ dining room light—call it architectural detail.)
Sunday, 6 August 2023
MaNachur raised our lagging rainfall average today. I don’t know if we got the predicted almost-an-inch, but we had lots of rain minutes…for the most part without wind and storminess…yay.