Musings
A good rain overnight will help our vegetation immensely (including inducing the tomatoes to split), but, oy!, the humidity today. I took it easy during my oh-dark-thirty trek as a result, and enjoyed the light ground fog created by our overnight meteorological situation.
Hump Day? August? Where does the time go?
SPV = street-parked vehicle
For better or worse, the transportation tax we voted on yesterday went down in all counties.
I’m now living in Mountain-Lion-land, and am handing my RSS feeds differently. Hmm. Reading patterns have changed.
Posted at 8:11 AM |
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Pleasant out (both temp and humidity) at my early morn exit time—due in part to this cloud cover?
Posted at 10:25 AM |
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Lucky me, I rolled in before lunch, ate a few of the yellow pear-tomatoes, and unloaded the Joad-mobile (aka BGT) in bright sunlight and raging humidity (except for the furniture that needs two people to move). I found the house in good order, and, even better, the AC working. Same with the shower. Nice!
Our kind, kind neighbors took pity on solo-me, and invited me over for porch-time, wine, and chili (yum!). As we sat on the porch, we watched the lightning flash lighting the sky particularly to the north and west, but without issue. The precip arrived much later, after I had returned home. Oh, the plants are happy now, after more than two hours of rainfall!
Posted at 10:22 PM |
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Dry, dry, dry when we hit the hay last night, but a serious rain-storm came through about 5AM, allowing the plants to be revitalized. We figured it was M&D smiling down on us, setting us up for a quiet moment distributing their ashes under the huge double white pine, where MaryAnn suggested.
Then we hit the road, having bookended things, as far as my emotional center is concerned.
Posted at 10:22 PM |
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I am so glad I don’t have to endure this heat without AC. I admit it. Ca. 80°F at 6AM—yeesh.
The tomatoes, however, with frugal applications of dish water, seem to be thriving.
Posted at 10:22 PM |
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Rain came…twice…south of the tracks. At our place, several miles north of the tracks: still powder dry. And so, tomorrow I will collect my dishwater and dump it on my ’maters.
Posted at 9:54 PM |
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Lake Superior with very light wave action, on Thursday.
Rainy and overcast today, so we read, did podcasts (guess who?), and generally spent an unstructured, quiet day, looking alternately down at the page/screen or out the window.
I tried to perfect my slow heat technique from the wood stove, and have honed it a bit—helps to have wet wood, thank you, Ma Natchurr.
Posted at 6:37 PM |
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Overcast and decidedly cool today; we’ll start the fire soon and boost the temp from the 62°F-ish it’s hanging at in the living room today.
Posted at 11:53 AM |
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We’ve been through several cycles of sun–clouds–rain today, so we know our rain dances worked. Isn’t that the way logic operates?
The rain is essential especially up on the Lake Superior shore, where a fire has burned over 20K acres and dozens of buildings, and is still going, fanned lately by the same weather system that brought rain.
Posted at 11:45 AM |
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The wind’s a-flurry and the TV meteorologists are showing maps with electric green and yellow and orange, and there’s talk of hail north and west of us. Hopefully, it’ll stay in someone else’s back yard, and not shred our azaleas—which are abloom in round two for this summer.
Posted at 8:17 PM |
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