Well, slight change of plans for what to do today. The grass is getting way too long, so I tried mowing slightly damp grass, but by 2:00 PM, it stated raining and by 2:30 was too heavy for me to continue, so I put the mower away. By 5:00 PM, the thunder was announcing heavier rain, but at 5:30 I went out anyway to empty the horse trough (100 gallons), scrub it clean and refill. Then we completed regular evening chores and we both were pretty wet by the time we got back in the house. The thunderstorms are expected to be in our area until well after midnight. We hit 75 momentarily today, but the heavy rain knocked us down to 58. Let's see... Summer officially starts in three days, right? Yeah, sure...
Was pretty decent here again, below average temps, but I-10 is a fucking mess between Phx and Tucson....widening the road into four-six lanes in both directions. Damn what a mess they have going on....then hit that shit during rush hour this morning, made it ontime, but not a minute to spare.
When I lived in Tucson (back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth), I-10 was standard old 2-lanes-each-direction type freeway. I have a real hard time imagining such an increase in traffic between Phoenix and Tucson as to need six each way. That's more like downtown L.A. Sigh...
I find it hard to believe too...Tucson is basically a shithole....from the parts I've seen anyway. I'm sure there are some VERY expensive neighborhoods there, I just haven't found any "yet"
Yeah, and it is forecast every day for the next week. I need a week of "dry" just so I can catch up on some overdue outdoor chores.
Hear that, Rich...you haven't had many actually dry days this spring-summer.
Hahhaha.....yeah no problems with dry weather there.Yeah, and my freakin' roto-tiller doesn't churn mud very well, and I want those damn squash seeds planted.... and... and... maybe I should become an illegal immigrant to Mexico.
It's just the current sun event (solar minimum), which will only last a few years. Then the nitwits can get back to their regularly scheduled global warming nonsense.
Sorry, but I don't think we ever grew acorns. We do Summer Squash and Winter Squash and both are the long yellowish to orangish type that, as a hasty generalization, need approximately three months (+/-) from seed to harvest.
That should work for acorns, which I truly enjoy, especially on the BBQ or smoker.
Funny things is, in spite of the cooling in most parts of this country, the idiots are still pushing their stupid global warming nonsense. Some, of course, have changed that to "climate change" but still want to tax us because they claim humans, not Sol, are responsible for it. Idiots.
You can't fix STUPID, but science can help.
I do not have a smoker, but we also do not have anything but real butter, and when Lannie bakes one in our gas oven, I love it smothered in butter.
The exact same shit has been happening since temps and weather has been recorded, the SJW's and other idiots just don't get it.
Haven't you noticed that some people (like AOC) are claiming that "science" is a conservative lie and we should all pay higher taxes (except her - she demands a raise in her already overpaid salary).
Oh yeah, lots of butter himalayan salt and fresh ground pepper.....damn that is some good eatin....!
That dumb bitch won't make the next election, I laugh at anything that drolls from her chops.
She should be recalled immediately, but the idiots in her district will still be idiots, so I doubt the replacement will be any better.
Incredible amount of rain lately. Hope that shit goes away soon.
He explained that his truck broke down a couple miles down the road and he had walked here in the rain (plus lightning and thunder and all that scary shit), so she let him in and he called 37 people, none of whom answered their phones and the one who did wasn't going to drive all the way out here, so he slept on our couch. When Lannie got me up this morning, about two hours before normal wake-up time, I met him and he was a very nice polite young guy. Eventually, he managed to get someone on the phone and they came out to help him with his truck. The weather was nice all day, but too wet to do much outside, and now we are having more thunderstorms. I hope no one else drags his ass in here because I am really tired and need to go to bed early.
Man oh man, that is strange. I would prolly do the same thing, gun.. then feel him out, but there are some good folks still left in this world....not many, but a fewYup.
Last night, the rain started about the same time as I was typing that it might happen any minute. Then, just after 1 AM, there was a knock at the door. Being a deaf mutha, I didn't even wake up, but Lannie went to the door to find a young man standing at the door, so she shoved her .357 snubby up his nose and told him to go away.
He really was a nice and extremely polite young man (barely out of high school in Faith, was a rodeo champion and all the stuff - if we had subscribed to the local newspaper we would have known who he was because apparently his picture had been in there a couple times). He helped Lannie with morning chores because my body wasn't willing to make the walk to the barns yet, so I sucked coffee and vaped while the kid got muddy.
Actually, not as freaked as one might expect. It was just this past March that we had to keep another trucker due to a nasty blizzard. And two couples I never thought I'd ever see again in this lifetime have told us they are coming to visit this summer, so my psyche is prepped for the weird and unusual.You must have freaked out when Lannie explained what was going on.....I can picture it now.....
That's right, I forgot about the trucker.
Strange shit happening in the Dakotas.....
Have a good night, amigo. I'm gonna go crawl in the sack now too. More BS tomorrow.
At least I'm not having to water the garden, eh? THAT'S good news!
Hahahaha....that made me chuckle.....51F.....yup, that's a winner for the first day of summer....GOOD sleeping weather tho.....
Damn Rich, your making so much progress you won't know what to do with yourself.....
