Frances and I had a potting party yesterday afternoon while Al worked on moving two of my indoor plants to bigger pots. The Philodendron needed a lot of work including a new stake Al had to cut. The rain held off until it was time to quite for the day anyway and get showers to go out to dinner. We filled all the hanging pots and the ones that sit on the porch steps and most of the ones that went in the flower beds.
This morning it was raining with temperatures in the lower 60’s. We had a break in the rain around 9:30 to give us a chance to get the mulch spread where the stump used to be and plant a sweet potato vine and a couple of perennials that attract hummingbirds and butterflies.
We cleaned up the garage from the potting project. I had just finished getting a the rest of the plants in the flower beds when we had another round of light rain move in.
The sun is trying to come out now. They headed back to Winston and I vacuumed the upstairs. Time for a shower and do a load of towels.
68 degrees, sunny, and calm this morning. I did a load of laundry and tidied the kitchen while waiting on Frances and Al to get here.
After lunch we went into town to Scott’s nursery and Hawks produce to pick up bedding and hanging pot plants. We’ve had off and on cloud cover with the rain coming in late this afternoon. The percentage and severity of the storms has gone down some from this morning’s forecast for this afternoon and tonight.
I am reading A Murder For The Books by Victoria Gilbert.
70 degrees, sunny, and calm this morning when I left for gym then back home and back to the gym to work my midday shift. It was sunny all day but the wind picked up this afternoon. The heavy clouds started rolling in by the time I left work. It looks like it will pour down any minute now with rain and storms in the forecast for tonight.
70 degrees, sunny, and calm this morning when I left for the gym. Library and grocery store stop on the way home. Showered, let Colin out to play, and back to the gym to work.
The clouds rolled in around noon bringing thunderstorms with off and on torrential down pours. I don’t know what it did here but the electronic rain gauge only showed .08″ of rain. I need to put the plastic rain gauge back out. We may get more storms this evening before this front moves through. Temperatures dropped down into the low 60’s this afternoon with the front.
68 degrees, sunny, and calm this morning. I left around 8:30 to head to Winston for a haircut and lunch with the girls from the Firm. In between haircut and lunch I ran a couple of errands.
It’s another nice day today with temperatures again in the upper 70’s, sunny, and bit of a breeze. I filled four of the fabric pots that go on the deck yesterday afternoon with carrots and peas. See how that goes. I have one more fabric pot filled but not sure what I want to plant.
Colin and I will head outside for awhile.
66 degrees, partly sunny, and calm this morning. I volunteered the morning shift at the bookstore. The sun has come out and temperatures have soared into the upper 70’s with no wind. A wonderful spring day. I guess Colin and I will spend some time outdoors this afternoon and enjoy the nice weather.
48 degrees, cloudy, and breezy when I left for the gym this morning. The sun is trying to make an appearance this afternoon after a cloudy, cool morning. We may make it into the low 60’s by this afternoon.
Colin and I have been outside picking up the limbs that blew down after the last big wind event. I used the blower to clean off the front porch and lawn furniture and did a few other odds and ends on my to-do list.
Not only does Colin not like the vacuum cleaner (he attacks the attachment while I am trying to vacuum the floor) he also does not like the blower. As soon as I turned it on he came charging across the driveway attacking the end of the blower chute. He also will go after the tiller when Al is tilling the garden so we have to keep inside when that is running. Anything with a motor that is dangerous he has to be in the house.
61 degrees, partly sunny, and windy. Sunny but another windy day with a high in the mid 60’s.
House cleaning and other related chores, desk clearing, and bills to pay this morning.
Too windy to do much outside.
51 degrees, sunny, and windy. Today we had another Blue Ridge Parkway workday. The one today was an event held by the Park Service with clean up going on the entire 498 miles of the Parkway.
Our local chapter worked the Doughton Park Campground and Picnic areas again. The tent site areas we worked on a couple of weeks ago were in pretty good shape considering we’ve had at least two or three 50+ mph wind events since then. Not too many limbs and sticks down to haul off/pile up in those areas. We moved to another section of the tent camp area we did not touch last time. We worked from 9 to 12 then took a lunch break before heading down the Parkway to the picnic area. I worked a couple more hours before calling it a day. That area needed a lot of work getting trees and limbs cleared from the picnic areas and the road that looped around the picnic area.
The winds last night were at least in the upper 50 range. They had subsided some by this morning but they are still blowing 15 to 20 with temperatures in the low 60’s. At least we have lots of sunshine and blue skies. Time for a shower and do a load of laundry.
