Early Morning

 

More Monsoon

Storms build every day, but have missed us so far. Radar shows that we should be hit at any moment, but has shown that for almost a week. I watch all of the weather reports, but don't really believe them. Cashmere did an excellent job with the mowing. The pond looks great in the afternoon light.

Pond News

Still waiting on the saw and maybe it will get here today. Cashmere is mowing right now and as soon as my work is caught up I'll help her.

More Hummingbirds

They are ferocious little creatures. They don't get along and they don't share.

 

Rainy Day

The pond is full and the rain is adding to that. The shop is pretty much a swamp until this lets up, but the future of the new and improved waterfall is looking good.

August 1

Eight more days to the full moon.

Almost There

It's not a 4-speed waterfall. Bill had a pipe rack built against the back wall of his shop and there were still quite a few things on it when the bulldozer pushed the dirt up. I cleared most of it out when we built the waterfall but couldn't lift the transmission. Still can't so it gets buried. Next I have to get the pipe rack cut out, then fill in the hole, then reconcrete the waterfall and spillway, and I'm done. I actually got a lot accomplished today and barely hurt myself. I only smashed my finger with the wrecking bar (think about all of the stuff I could have smashed). But then I sliced the same finger on a piece of tin and the swelling instantly went down so it feels a lot better now.

A Little More Rain

My gauge shows 2/10ths of an inch for last night but it seemed like more than the night before. However much fell, it smelled incredibly good this morning. Our morning walk (which has turned into a morning drive) was invigorating and the park even looked better today. Cashmere, Josh, Linda and Bill had a barbecue for some of our relatives last night but I missed it. Humid and more clouds building for this afternoon.

It is Hot!

Sort of nice, but the heat is killer. It kind of reminds me of Austin, beautiful if you are inside looking through a window, but if you go outside the will to live is instantly sucked out of you. Anyway it will make the cool evening even better. We got 4/10ths of an inch of rain last night and it's building up for some more tonight. We could still have a wet year.