26 Jun 2010
On the Home Front

One thing a news strike does: it cuts down on material to comment on in blog posts! But it also seems to result in a calmer overall disposition, and that's a Good Thing™.

Trying to keep up with the lawn and general garden work this year has been a real chore - we've had a tremendous amount of rainfall, and the heat and humidity make it feel more like late July than late June. The garden's been too soggy to work in much, and weeds have gone rife where some of our planned plantings have simply drowned in the muck. The tomatoes, peppers, cukes and pumpkins seem OK, but most everything else has been a wash - literally. I did manage to get the woodpile on the west side of the barn cleaned up (and partially burned) today. That task has been planned for, oh, six years, at least!. And I got a chunk of mucking done in the big stall Friday evening. Lorraine got the yard mowed yesterday, and I got the ditch and the ve this morning, but other than that, it's been too hot to work outside for long.

I do have some opinion pieces I saw in the Times to opine on, and a few other tidbits that I've gleaned from blogs and other non-news sources, but that's about it. Maybe I'll start working my way back through my "to be posted" pile again...

We'll see.

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