63°f/17°C, showers and humid.
The Fire Pinks are in bloom on Joe's Run! There are more this year than I have ever seen here.
So amazing, they are just doing their thing, no human intervention required. Maybe it's all the rain bringing them on?
After a very short break from the rain yesterday, it returned overnight, fortunately just intermittent showers. But it is so humid! The temperature isn't bad (77° at 2 pm) but the humidity is 88%. I was out doing some garden work and within minutes sweat was dripping off my nose, in my eyes, and running down my back. Pure misery. I retreated inside after a couple hours, turning on the AC even though it isn't that hot, just to reduce the humidity so I can work in here. The Roomba is vacuuming as I write, the fans are on, and I have hot coffee, so all is right in my world at the moment!
I am so thankful the rain let up for a bit. Flooding is everywhere, although nothing catastrophic, thank goodness. As we were going out yesterday we encountered yet another downed tree. Fortunately some nice person had been along to cut a way through, and Larry cleaned up more of the broken bits and debris before we went on.
Yes, tgat is a crack in our windshield, no idea why it cracked. Just got up on morning and there was a little crack. By the next day it had spread. One more thing to deal with. Later, though. Got things to do this week.
A surprising thing happened on the WV Turnpike yesterday. A truck's back doors got open and little piglets were falling out onto the highway! There were actually 2 trucks; the police were able to stop one but the other continued on its way, dropping little pigs here and there as it went. There were two near the state Capitol, and several videos showed police and other people trying to catch the little things. Sadly, many of the pigs were killed or injured. I hope that somewhere the second truck got stopped. Poor little pigs.
It has been a weekend of bizarre wrecks, like this one in Charleston. (Photo is from WV Metro News)
This car is hanging over an interstate bridge in Charleston Saturday afternoon! Believe it or not, the driver had only minor injuries. His Guardian Angel was certainly looking after him. There were several tractor trailer wrecks, 2 blocking bridges. So all in all, I am glad we didn't make any long drives over the weekend.
But yesterday was Larry's 75th birthday, so we went out for brunch with our son Derek. Afterward I sent Larry into Tractor Supply with $100 to buy anything he wanted. Would you believe he came out empty-handed? The man just doesn't like to shop. But later at Walmart he bought what he really wanted: a battery for the four-wheeler. Go figure. But he was tickled pink, so it's all good. We stopped by Shari's so he could have ice cream with his buddies--no cake, though. And everyone in the restaurant sang happy birthday. Pretty nice! I gave him a card and a $100 Grand candy bar, because I figure he's worth that much! It was a nice outing.
And of course when we got home we got right to work. I mulched another big section of my vegetable garden and did more stringtrimming while Larry ran the weedeater and took the tiller through his garden. Surprisingly it was dry enough to do that.
We picked the cherries this morning, or what the birds and the rain left us. We've never had a problem with birds in our tree before but they sure found them this year, and all the rain caused some cherries to split. Still, we got about a gallon, and that will be enough to make several jars of pie filling. What we couldn't reach, the birds can have.
All for now. Housework is calling, and I must go!
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