Overnight last night, it started raining. A soft, gentle, soaking rain. Just what we needed. We topped out today at not quite 1.25 inches of rain. DEFINITELY a beneficial rain.
I'm hoping that the garden will really start to take off now. I've got a few overachieving tomatoes that already have blossoms on them, even though they are only about a foot high (Amish Paste and Black Sea Man). But the !$*# birds have pecked off every little tomato that Mom gave me. Grrr... And something has eaten all the lower leaves off about 5 tomato plants. Every leaf up to 8-10 inches is gone. Not just snipped off- gone. Who knows- I've never had that problem before. I can't imagine bunnies eating tomato leaves but we seem to have an inordinate amount of baby bunnies around this year after the mild winter and early spring.
Now for a bit of random babbling.
In randomness I've found amusing in the news recently- the "Zombie attack" in Miami and of course, the Homeland Security word list. I was amazed at that list. I must have been 'pinged' as a possible terrorist many times. I mean, really... with words like: storm, snow, blizzard, pork, Home Grown, cloud, disaster preparedness, power lines, flu, virus, tornado, hurricane and a host more, reading pinged content must be a tedious job at DHS.
In 'not so much fun' news, our local landfill is on fire and has been for 6 days. Officials are letting it 'burn out'. It appears that a fire started and spread to the 3 foot layer of shredded tires that they use to protect the liner. So, there has been a huge plume of gray/black smoke to the southwest of us. Makes me glad we live where we do and that the wind has been favorable to keep it away from us. We were in that part of town on Sunday afternoon and the stench was terrible.
Today was the last day of school for the boys. I now officially no longer have a child in elementary school. Oh, I feel old. I was hung up at work but V went to K12's 6th grade graduation. Of course, he didn't take the camera (sigh). But, now, all children are home for the summer and will probably eat us out of house and home.
Love the new picture of your home on your header. I remember back when you moved there - you have done so much work - it looks just great!
ReplyDeleteThanks- we have been doing a lot. This year seems to be the summer of the outside/landscaping projects- finally!
DeleteWa-hoo! Glad you finally got some good rain.
ReplyDeleteWith your two growing, growing, growing boys at home all summer, I suggest a lock on the refrigerator. ;o)
Thanks for sharing the rain with us- it seems that recently you have been keeping it all to yourself.
DeleteAnd, yes, I'm thinking of investing in a stout strap and a padlock! But amazingly enough- they don't actually eat that much junk. Mostly they will snack on crackers, cereal and fruit/juice.
We just got 2 nights in a row of wonderful rain too! Yay! I could give my sprinkler a break!
ReplyDeleteNice to see your home!
I was really hoping that it would rain some more last night but no luck. We've got only a 20% chance the next few days. Geez, it seems like all I do is complain about the weather. When we got 2.5 inches in an hour- I complained. When we didn't get any rain for a few weeks- I complained. Maybe I'll have to try to be more tolerant of the weather... nah.....
Deletebetter go tell momma pea she must be on top of the list with" home grown journal" at the home land security office.I AM WAITING FOR ALL THE MOSQUITOES TO HATCH,ALL HE RAIN WE HAVE HAD.I GOT 3 BIRDS KILLED WITH ONE STONE YESTERDAY,BUT I'M BUSHED,I HAVE NOT LEFT THE HOUSE AFTER 6:00PM IN YEARS /BUT WENT TO THE CERMONY AT THE HIGH SCHOOL-TOOK PAT TO HIS SUGEANS APPT. AND SET UO HIS SURGERY DATE TO FIX HIS KNEE. I THINK I'M READY FOR FALL AND SCHOOL TO BEGIN----JK
ReplyDeleteGood for you for getting all that done. Congrats on the graduation if that was the ceremony. What a great accomplishment for your grandson.
DeleteGood grief, I hadn't heard about the word list. That's like rating my blog PG instead of G because I talk about a recipe for grilling chicken breasts. I looked at the lists and wondered, who in the world thinks up this stuff? Oh well, nothing on the internet is private anyway.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that list something. Makes me want to make references to "stormy pork clouds" in every post.
DeleteWe didn't get that much but we did get 0.7" so I'm not going to complain. All it took was me going out to water all the flowerbeds and garden the night before! I should have done that a couple weeks ago.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't expecting as much as we got but it's quite fine that we got more than I thought.
DeleteAnd I'm not sure the watering a few weeks ago would have helped. I had been watering for quite a while and everything kept missing us.
So jealous on the rain. We've only had about an inch of moisture total since the start of March. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteI was so thrilled that it rained. We have been so dry here. I hope you get some rain soon.
DeleteThere's thunder rumbling in the distance! I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
DeleteThe header photo is awesome! I'm getting pinged for sure, too LOL! I bet "they" employ actual preppers to read the pings to determine how serious we are LOL!!!
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