After taking my morning shower yesterday, I walked into the kitchen and saw this (pictures lightened considerably)
Must have been some interesting things out there - LOL
That reminds me, I never got to show the curtains I put up on the back porch on June 6. The small section (to the left in the first pic) was put up last year to see if it helped keep the kitchen from warming up so fast from the eastern sun. It seemed to work well, so this year I put up the larger section.
Although I took down the plastic weather strips from both ends of the porch, I have not done so yet for the side. The main reason is because it has been so rainy here that I didn't want all that water splashing onto the porch. That is the reason I don't have any flowers on the rail as they would just flood out and there would be soil all over the porch. I haven't put out any of the house plants either, as I normally do.
I actually got the whole lawn mowed yesterday. That is a feat in itself as I haven't been able to mow the drainage area to the north but once this year because it usually had standing water. That area was very tall, but it was dry from the dry weather for several days (besides heavy dew), combined with fierce winds on Friday (lots of tree branches down, and some power outages in the southern part of the state). I was unsure if the Ryobi, battery mower would make it thru, and considered using the gas mower.
Gave it the old college try with the Ryobi, and it did wonderfully.
BREAKING NEWS: We had our first dry Saturday since mid March!!!!
Right now I'm waiting for the thunderstorm to arrive with possible hail, torrential rains and high winds. That will usher in the "heat dome" thru the middle of the week (dang that jet stream moving way up north), and it will be downright miserable out there. Only supposed to be in the lower 90's today with higher humidity, but Monday and Tuesday the Heat index will not be fun.
At least I'll get some production out of my solar panels - LOL.
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