Man, oh man! If only every day were like today in the weather department. We started off with a cool and comfortable 55 degrees at 6 AM, followed by nothing but sunny skies and puffy cumulus clouds all day and yet the temperature barely made it up to 78 degrees this afternoon. Absolutely gorgeous!
Yesterday wasn't bad either once the early morning rains (0.15 inches) finished. Made everything very muddy outside. Especially slick was the clay road leading passed the Aerie. I drove to the top of the hill to look at the construction going on up there for both gas wells and wind mills and found the Tundra slipping on the clay like it was snow in winter. The construction is progressing but everything seems to be in the road building site preparation stage. It will be a good long while before the windmills go up. I'd be surprised if they appear this year at all.
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Terry's putting in long hours in preparation for the national Smocking Arts Guild of America convention that takes place in Indianapolis the end of September. As national president, she's got numerous tasks to complete, speeches to write, assignment of duties to make, coordination of various committees, etc. and she's trying to get things done before she and her Mom go down to Mt. Airy, NC for a Polar Bear Reunion. (Polar Bear in this instance is a group of Army Vets from WWII to which Dad belonged. He and Mom would go to all the reunions and now that Dad's passed away, Mom continues to go.)
Then Terry has the EGA (Embroiderer's Guild of America) national convention in Pittsburgh the beginning of October. yeah, she'll leave me and the cats alone for two straight weeks.
Then there's two weddings, one on Sept 26th and the other on Oct 17th and both in NJ.
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I walked up in the woods today to see what the loggers had left behind. There's a mess of tree tops (maple, ash, and oak) that I need to break down and cut up into firewood. Today was just to scout, plan, and lop off the smallest of branches (anything less than two inches in diameter). I worked for two and half hours and barely made a dent in the mess. I'll bring a water bottle tomorrow and will be able to spend even more time lopping branches. All in preparation of cutting and hauling firewood.
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I picked another half pint of mixed raspberries and blackberries while I was out in the woods today. Terry got enough string beans to freeze another quart. She also picked a couple more cucumbers. She also planted some spinach seeds where we had some lettuce earlier in the summer. Yesterday she turned a few zucchini into four loafs of bread.
1 comment:
You don't have to worry about having Anchorage weather - our range was 44 to 71, today ... yeah, it's that time of year. Leaves changing, mid- to upper-40s at night .. oh, well.
Otherwise, sounds like you had a great (if busy) day.
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