Rain again, over a half inch from about 1:30 yesterday afternoon, overnight & until 11:00 this morning. Some of it was hard enough to wash mulch in places.
Yesterday, it was so muggy & ‘close’, I was in a major sweat after 10 minutes outside. It was the perfect time for a trip in the air-conditioned truck over the mountain, through another gap to Lowe’s. I picked up 8 landscaping timbers, weed killer & 2 more sections of landscape edging so I can finish the front of the house. Meanwhile, the sky was turning very dark to the west. There was another stop I wanted to make, but decided to skip it & skedaddle home. The storm was in my rear view mirror the whole trip & big winds/rain hit about 20 minutes after I got the truck in the barn.
Trying to do things in the shade for the afternoon - repotting my basil, unloading the truck, reorganizing what I have stashed in the barn, painting my double washtubs & stand. The Belmont is at 6:30 so I’ll probably have an hour after that until sunset when it should be ‘cooler’. We’ve gone fairly directly from Spring (50’s last week) to Summer (90’s).
I got the mowing done, so I’m going to knock a few more things off my To-Do List for the day.
Dog chores will take longer than normal, today. The idiots managed to dig under the fencing AGAIN, even after Beau repaired it, and we had a few ‘escapees’ yesterday. He didn’t have time to fix anything because they were leaving for Canada yesterday, so the dogs are squirrely as heck without being able to go outside, even though their kennel runs are big enough to trot around in if they want to. Maybe I’ll teach them to jump rope this week, or jog in place, LOL! They screwed themselves, that’s all I can say.
Beau power-washed everything for me, so when I go down to the barn later, I will let one out at a time to run around in the kennel shed while I clean the floor, refill their water, then lure them back in with dinner. Should be interesting. MOST of them are pretty well behaved and obedient. I’m thinking of ONE right off that will be a troublemaker, LOL!
Thanks for the reminder about the Belmont. With life’s happenings this week, I had totally forgotten. It will be a nice diversion for me.