I went to the gym this morning. I headed down the mountain about 2pm for Winston. I ran a couple of errands before going to Frances and Al’s to drop off another load produce from the garden.
From there I met Nancy and Betsy for dinner at Hickory Tavern then headed back up the mountain. It rained all the way home but at least did not storm.
I am reading Off the Books by Lucy Arlington.
Gym and grocery store this morning. Today is warm and muggy. I picked beans, tomatoes, and zucchini in the garden then picked a bucket full of apples. This afternoon I volunteered at the bookstore.
Gym this morning. I had a Friends of the Library meeting at 1pm. My friend JoAnn was also at the meeting. I had her follow me home to get some of the apples and the tomatoes I picked yesterday and this morning.
While we were in the meeting we had a heck of a thunderstorm. When I got home it had rain over two inches, a good bit of which had blown onto the porch. Since we have lived here it has never rained on the porch all the way back to the side of the house. The porch is not all that wide but wide enough that when it does blow rain it does not get back far enough to wet the chair cushions.
The sun had come out by the time we got here. I guess Colin hid under mine or Bob’s desk.
House cleaning chores this morning including changing the three filters in the house for the furnace and cleaning the downstairs bathroom.
Once I finished up in here Colin and I went outside. After a ball playing session I started weeding along and in the mulch bed that runs along the right side of the driveway. After all the rain the ground is soft enough to clean up along the edge where the grass tends to over grow the mulch.
I took break at the end of that side to come in and cool off and read the paper. We then ventured back out to do the left side and clean up some of the cement along the edge of the back stoop from the rock project. I picked tomatoes and one lone cucumber before finally running out of gas.
Temperatures are in the low 80’s with a nice breeze and low humidity. I am balancing check books and paying bills to get my desk cleared.
I met my friend Bonnie at the Scenic Outlet located west of Mr. Airy around 9:30. Bonnie likes to shop there and they are going out of business. There are a couple of other stores in the same little strip mall. Once we finished there we each drove on into downtown Mr. Airy, which is about 20 minutes further down the highway.
We ate lunch at the Loaded Goat before doing some looking/shopping downtown. Temperatures were in the upper 80’s there and sunny.
I was back home by 2pm. The weather here is cooler, upper 70’s and partly sunny. I hit a couple short, heavy downpours on the way back but it was not raining here. I had time to get Colin out for a quick playtime before it started pouring down rain here.
Gym this morning, home, shower, and back to work 10:30 to 3:30.
Overnight and today I’ve had 5 inches of rain at the house. It rained hard all night and poured down this morning and during the day at the gym. The sun finally came out late this afternoon. We are under a flood warning until 5:45 this evening but hopefully that is it for the day and the weekend. We’ve had enough rain for a few days.
Gym and grocery store this morning. We had a good soaking rain over night bringing the two day total to about an inch. When I came out of the store it looked like it was going to pour down rain.
I quickly put the cold stuff away and went out to the garden. There were several very ripe tomatoes that did not have rotten ends that needed picked. I also picked a very large cucumber, three zucchini, a squash, beans and pulled up two decent sized orange carrots. I called my neighbor who stopped by and took the tomatoes, two of the zucchini, the carrots, and the cucumber. We also planted some purple and white carrots but I did not pull those up yet. I prefer the odd colored carrots to the orange ones.
I washed, snapped, and cooked the beans while I ate lunch, cooked rice for stir fry for dinner, and cleaned up the kitchen while all that was going on.
So far, no rain but we are still under flash flood watch for potential heavy downpours. It all depends on where you live as to what you will get.
I am reading Burn by Nevada Barr.
Trip down to Winston this morning for a follow up appointment. Cool but muggy in Winston. Cloudy and cool up here with a light drizzle. So far the heavy rain is still west of us.
