Saturday, June 18, 2011

Pining for Summer

Yesterday it was sunny.  By 8:30 AM, I was at my garden plot weeding and watering. I planned to go earlier, but it was waaaay too cold. When the sun came up, tho, it warmed up pretty fast. I shed my coat soon after I started my gardening chores.

I spent most of the day in the backyard attacking the weeds that are so prolific in our neighborhood and gathering the winter's accumulated yard debris~ five 32-gal containers in all before I ran out of time and steam. Three to go, at least. After I blew the debris off the patio, it was time for some serious sun time. Nice!

I even walked over to my neighbor's for our continuing pow-wow on how to attack the critters responsible for tunneling through the four lots that converge at the SW corner of mine. (The saga continues, but our weapon of choice is the new molecat we decided to purchase and played with last night.) When I got home, I checked the weather forecast only to discover that we might get showers today.  Late, late last night I transferred 3 cans of yard debris to the yard debris recycle bin for pickup on Monday to avoid getting wet.

I was OK with the showers I awoke to this morning.  Not so much the torrential rains of the day.  I notice that the prediction of 80-degree weather to coincide with summer solstice has been downgraded. I miss summer. It seems like only yesterday...

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