Friday, June 19, 2015

aftermath


Tropical Storm Bill (Bill?) came and went. I'm unsure how much rain we got because the rain gauge next door overflowed at 5 1/2”. Jade and I had gone to yoga in the next little town over that night as all day Tuesday it just sprinkled off and on. We hadn't been there 5 minutes when the storm finally started coming through with torrential rain and high wind. I kept thinking through the whole hour...It's only 8 miles. It's only 8 miles. I can drive through this for 8 miles. We did make it safely home.


Tuesday morning I was up early folding up lawn chairs and taking down wind chimes and pounding a stake in the ground so I could secure the Lee Littlefield sculpture with three points. It's already loose in the ground from the 9” we got the last week of May.


I worried about the little kildeer and her eggs all night during the storm and Wednesday morning early I checked on her. I'm happy to report that she weathered the storm and her chicks had the good sense not to try and hatch. Which they should be doing any day now.



The yard is, of course, a mess, littered with small and medium branches. I'm surprised there were that many left to be lost from the previous storm. The cedar at the entrance to the shop has a big broken branch that hasn't fallen and one of the pecans also has a couple of danglers. That stupid arbor fell on my small dogwood tree again, damaging it further because I didn't even think about securing that.


Hot and muggy out today and no one is in a hurry to clean up the mess.




12 comments:

  1. Picking up fallen branches around here is my hobby.
    Not right now though. Too muggy. I'll let them lay where they are. Can't wait to see those baby killdeer chicks.

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  2. That's the way it's been raining here, for seven days now. Today is cool and overcast and strangely muggy. I think back to your bottle cap on a rail, "Texas rain gauge", several years ago. Well, I hope the weather comes round for California one of these days.

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  3. It's not the time of year I'd associate with storms. Oh well what do I know being English ☺. I hope you survive the season unscathed

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  4. Had sun two days in a row, a new record it seems.Hope you survive this one.

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  5. we only got 3 inches here in waves. now the humidity strikes hard!

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  6. Glad you and the birds are safe and sound. We weather a nasty storm to go out to dinner, but survived that also.

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  7. Bill will be visiting us up here in PA tonight and I do hope he has run out of steam.

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  8. Up here in the north we'd been hearing about that storm as it approached. So happy that you made it back in one piece and the damage was minimal. I hope you'll get some peace and quiet for a while.

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  9. Sorry you had to weather another one but glad there was not terrible damage.

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  10. I'm so glad the kildeer made it through! It's amazing how nature handles these things. Glad the damage was limited to downed limbs!

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  11. Glad you survived the storm without too much fuss or damage. Mother Nature can throw serious tantrums.

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  12. I'm looking at those branches & thinking "bonfire!" In winter when you guys might actually be cool enough to enjoy it... Glad the killdeer chicks are safe for now!

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