With the wet weather and high humidity of the past week i have had to wrench the chicken coop door open to collect eggs during brief drier spells: every two to four days. When it is wet the wood door swells and cements itself to the frame. today i collected after not being able to …
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Not the Day to Buy a Lottery Ticket
I was inside the house having a popsicle to cool down after mowing the lawn. I had just finished a strawberry one and got up to throw away the stick. As i walked across the room it was as if the light left with me, as if a sheet had been quickly pulled over the …
Weatherizing Cricket’s Bed
All day today the icy wind was pummeling people, pushing them this way and that and making it difficult to breathe as well as drive on flat stretches of highway. it was a mess. The high was in the fifties today and the wind gusts made it feel much colder. The low is scheduled to …
Cooler Weather
October brought cold fronts which finally took the temperatures below 90 degrees. It was no longer 113 degrees in the afternoons. The chickens survived another summer. They could finally exist without their daily bowl of ice cubes and frozen fruits to cool them from the inside out. We did it. We made it another year. …
A Drive-by Pop-up Storm
One night a blip exploded onto the radar. It slid diagonally right past us. It created itself out of nowhere in the heat. We didn’t get a drop of moisture but we did get a good lightening show. I stood in the yard and watched it for a time before going to sleep.
A New Outdoor Thermometer
With colder weather approaching i knew i needed to replace the outdoor thermometer on the porch. The current one was about eight degrees off and it bugged me, especially when trying to calculate if i needed to put animals in the house or cover plants. The forecasted temperatures for my town pertained to the valley, …
Weather’s Coming, Weather’s Coming!
i had just gotten back to work in time to work with some of the feeder patients for supper. I had received word that the wire transfer went through and the money i needed to write a check for the rest of the cost of the nissan rogue was sitting in my account. I had …
A Quick Repair
When the environment is wet wood swells and warps. Wood that can no longer fit where it is nailed, screwed, or glued bends, sometimes with so much force that it rips the nail holding it down right out of the piece of wood it is attached to. It happens most notably with the wood surrounding …
Sili and Cashew Playing Outside as a Warm Front blows in.
A Short Trip to the Well House
Once a year in the winter i make sure to fill the water softener barrel to the top with salt chips in case i dont feel like battling the wasps in the spring to get in there. The last time i did do battle i won but the barrel ended up full of dead wasps. …