Very dry this year!
I am digging in bulbs and the soil is so dry.
I am avoiding the winds!

July was typical, nasty but other non-weather annoyances made it worse.
August has been very nice so far, cannot really complain; we are in fair season and I hopefully will go to the Minn. State Fair again this year.
I did not go to the last normal one for the first time EVER in my life because the drive/excitement to go went with it becoming more money hustling affair than the Machinery Hill-Farm Stock building that is the reason I go.

Right now listening to 1010 Music of Your Life AM radio station and they are playing the Jazz type singer you used to here on the TV variety shows, plus soft rock from late fifties to late sixties.
Sad that I MUCH prefer doing this to going out and raising hell like I did even ten years ago . (Although louden boomer fireworks are still in my blood).

The UP State Fair is happening starting this coming Sunday and, while we don't go every year anymore, I see that on the 18th they are having "Honored Citizens Day" ( ) where seniors get in for $5 instead of $10 and military veterans are free... so for $5 for the two of us it seems like a good excuse to go eat some junk food! (I mean, with all the garden veggies during the summer we could OD on healthy food, right?) Have to see how the weather looks... but I haven't had a corn dog in an awful long time

A humid 68 right now; the worthless MSN weather page has that "feels like" BS as feeling like 66, NOT, it feels like a humid 68.

My rain guage said 2 inches of rain up here, so I hope the South garden got the one and one-half RJ said he got, although at this point in time other than the squash and two tomatoes down there will have little affect.

Got my Dolmar chain saw finally going yesterday after finding out if one sits for five or more years they can be hard to start.
Cut down the last 8 ft by 2 to 2 1/2 foot remnant of the Mulberry tree. cut it off in sections , size determined by the other half, of approx. 17 inches plus or minus.
It is on the side of a steep hill and first one nearly rolled (tumbled into the busy street) so we tied rope around each section, and I prayed Sharon had enough strength to stop each chunks from still sliding. (They were heavy, very, even for me to move each time.)
After one OH SHYTE near miss, we worked it out.
Do not know what she wants with those big chunks but she has some thing floating in her head for them.

Picked up a little over an inch this morn. Took a walk, got humid as it warmed up.

Our temp today started out at 48°F - and I saw on the Weather Channel that Marquette (up on L. Superior, about 60 miles north of me) had an overnight low of 37° . Eventually got up to the mid 70s here today, more or less perfect to my way of thinking. And we're supposed to have rain tonight and tomorrow - I sure hope that happens!

Harvesting lots of cucumbers, zucchini, beans, peppers and tomatoes now - and I have a bunch of broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage plants to put in now that my garlic has been pulled out. And my Red Gold potatoes look like they're ready to be dug out as well. Putting all of that down in writing makes me realize I need to pick up the pace!

76 bright sunny although in the past few minutes the bright level has dropped, with an increasing stronger breeze. (I am watching how much the branches on the spruce tree move.)

Mowed lawn, entire, trimmed back the Bridal Veil Spirea, spread more red mulch around the flower beds the past few days.
The other half told me where two of the large chunks of Mulberry Tree are to put for decoration, which leaves me three other large chunks to move to some where, where, I will have cut them down to some thing that resembles usable, for a any reason size.

I want to cut the remaining stump/s down as low as possible but before I ruin a chain cutting that close, very close, to the ground I ned to get the other cutting done first.
Oh yes, I have to figure out how to move the chunks of tree trunk, I am guessing they are well over 100 pound each.
I will pay the price for letting my self get out of shape , not that man handling these odd shaped hemorrhoid inducing suckers would never have been easy.

79 sunny with a steady breeze outside.

August is almost gone and I have failed to do 90 percent of what has to be done down home.
Still time in September but this year , for different reasons has been a cluster like last year.
Automobile is not running again as the fuel pump went out; I ordered on-line as I was not going to drive tens of miles like I did for cooling system trying to find one.

Fall is right around the corner, for sure! And so many different veggies demanding my attention right now... maybe next year I will grow a smaller garden

Another cluster of months that as a youth were so eagerly awaited every year.

Summer still has tweny days of life left, while back when I landscaped there were approx. two months of time left to get done projects rainy weather had put behind schedule.
Unlike grade and high school, when I went back to get my college degree, I was looking forward to getting back in the class room in although only one year before I graduated did I start landscaping full time so it was basic part time-full time that made each summer a little different.

Time to go out and mow the lawn: Get your motor runnin - head out in the backyard - born to mow wiiiild....

"Get your motor runnin - head out in the backyard - born to mow wiiiild...."

That should be on a teeshirt!

The 4th of July , to me, is hte end of spring, and the start of summer.

July 10 is the start of the hell weeks , hot days, normally.
Heat came early this year.
Short on money so no daytrip to the Dakotas for fireworks this year.

Starting soon will be some county fairs and farm shows, which , to me, is the harbinger of fall, although, as I wrote last year, that no longer is a bad thing as grade/high school is a long, long, long, long time ago, while Thanksgiving and Christmas are highlights of my year now.

Still hot , now humid.
Rain now and this , heavy pee, not rain storms.
Still inches short of needed moisture.
Major lawn work next spring if not this fall; a lot of dead grass spots and weed, including Yellow Nut Sedge, showing up.

Good year of the gardens, oddly, but not much else.

The moisture is not coming across from the Pacific the way it has in the past. This is a very dry year again.