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More rain

After 5 days of sunshine, temperatures in the upper 70’s/low 80’s (F) and a final day, Wednesday, of perfection at low 70’s with a wonderful breeze…we are back to rain.

But Wednesday…no photos as I was out after finishing my work, enjoying… enjoying feeling 100%, enjoying a perfection of a day and also doing a few of the yard chores that I missed over the weekend.

But, today, Thursday:

Raindrops on everything.

So far, this round, it has been drizzly vs pouring rain.

I think it got to 57F today.

It feels good.

I am enjoying the green and the cool and the moisture.

More rain.

First weekend of Summer

I had big plans for the weekend.

After a very rainy week – and actually the last few weekends have been rainy – and with Wild Thing in shape to de-Winterize, load, etc… my weekend plans included getting her situated for at least some short outings, mowing the lawn, blowing pine needles off the roof of house and garage and some general yard pick up.

The plans went awry.

Between a medication, summer light and nighttime wildlife (skunk!) causing serious sleep disruption…my get up and go, got up and went. I had some energy first thing but by late morning…pfft…out of gas.

I’m not a “just push through it” kind of person as well as I know when I try to do things when I’m not 100%, I often end up hurting the equipment or me and/or botching the job, so I came inside, made a batch of herbal iced tea and wiled away the weekend streaming tv, reading and puttering just a little in the kitchen when I felt like it.

Actually, it felt pretty good to have a low, slow, quiet weekend.

Bear and Auggie enjoyed cool mornings… walk and a treat…

I don’t think the treat was shared.

To the left (north) of the front porch is the cat hidey-nap spot that was a favorite with Bob…

And now with Auggie.

I can find him there most afternoons.

Bear prefers the cool house and his gecko.

Chutney was on my cooking list. I added strawberries to the small amount of rhubarb I had for a strawberry-rhubarb chutney.

Dump all in a pan and cook down to desired consistency.

The house smelled wonderful…

And a beautiful jar of chutney was the result.

I love a little on a spicy, sausage pizza. Also good on grilled salmon or chicken. Or coconut-curry rice. Good stuff!

I did get Wild Thing de-Winterized and a tank of chlorinated water is in her. I’ll drain, rinse and refill during the week as there is time. The grass…well, it has been long before…all will get done. Just not this first weekend of Summer

A low key Friday

Although I really needed a good work day…the sun, the breeze… everyone else in my work group doing other things…

I did get a half day of work in but otherwise puttered between the kitchen, the front porch and the side yard.

We are enjoying the front porch these last days…the cool and rain and breeze and no yellow jackets. Today a few YJs but nothing to drive us away.

Auggie-boy was outside the live long day! He comes in almost on the hour to say hello and grab a bit to eat…and I catch him napping in the tall grass just south of the front porch…the spot that Mr. Bob also favored. Just like Beardog point is the Beardog lookout, the grassy spot is apparently the cat hidey-nap spot.

A good day of a bit of work, time outside with Bear and Auggie and beauty all around.

A low key Friday.

Rain, rain, it has gone away

Well, at this point it hadn’t gone away.

This is Wild Thing with her brand new windshields.

They got a good test with a night and day of pouring rain…

Hoo…I say HOO-RAH!!!

A dry dash in record setting (we set records for amount of rain 2 days in a row and records for the lowest high in 100 years) – I was so very pleased to walk into Wild Thing the last 2 mornings and see no drips, no puddles, just a normal dry dash.

And today, Thursday…it started a bit drizzly, but cleared and the sun came out…

We jumped and ran for joy!

Rain, rain, it has gone away.

Tidbits

All of these photos are from Sunday.

We had some sun breaks.

…cool sun breaks.

My favorite kind!

Auggie on the hunt.

Serious business.

Grasshopper??? or whatever the things are that are around now…

But today, Monday, Auggie got a bird…a baby bird. And he brought it into the house. It was still alive.

The house rules regarding hunting are:
Eat what you kill, i.e. no trophy hunting
Anything brought into the house must be COMPLETELY dead.

Auggie and I had words.

It remains to be seen how effective those words were.

There has been some ongoing discussion.

Back to Sunday.

Pretty.

Lupins!!

Tidbits.

Sunday.

The Animal Channel

Thursday night and Friday morning were a bit soggy.

But, mid and late afternoon Friday…Sun breaks!

We were very fortunate all day long in being able to take walks during the sun breaks/dry time. The woods was wonderfully wet but rain was not falling on our heads.

Later…some fun with Bear and Auggie:

Yes, it is Friday…Friday the 13th! But here on “The Road Home” it is time for fun.

Another Simon’s Cat video.

I’m a Subscriber to Simon’s Cat videos and this morning came a short to celebrate 3,000,000 …THAT is 3 MILLION subscribers to Simon’s Cat videos on YouTube. As I watched the celebratory short, there were some “trailers” and I saw the Screen Grab bit. I HAD to share.

A while ago, my mom told me that who knows how…their tv got set to PetTV. She told me that she heard this beautiful music and found the TV set to PetTV.

After viewing the below, I remembered and laughed and thought to share – SO funny and fun!