rain and mosquitos and a pleasant surprise

More rain yesterday evening and during the night, mosquitos still horrendous, but what a pleasant surprise this morning when I went out about 8:30 and it was 68˚ and not humid! Seems like the same thing happened last year on the day after the Autumnal Equinox. It won't last.

I finally cleared the weeds, johnson grass, and nut grass out of just one of the raised garden beds. It took me two days. The first day we'd had a couple of dry days in a row and it was overcast but so hot I got about half done before I thought I would pass out and then the sun broke through. Yesterday I got out there to get it finished before the rain came. It was getting darker and darker with thunder rumbling but I only had one corner to do to be finished when it started raining. The dog is in my face...'uh, mom, it's raining, let's go'. Determined to finish, me and the dog were soaked through by the time we made it back to the house. But I did finish and I bet I threw 100 grubs out of that 4' x 16' bed. Too bad there weren't any birds hanging around, it would have been a gorge fest. Today I cleaned out the smaller of the two other raised beds since it was overcast and still not bad out there. Just the big one to go but at least I can get started planting the fall garden after I level out the dirt and add some fertilizer.

Rocky showed up yesterday to try and make some progress on the house. Between the rain and his other job that keeps adding things on he can't seem to get more than a half day in. Most is done, just some trim and a few repairs in the back, a door, the decorative shutters, stuff like that. The niggling detail. I'm trying to wait until at least one side of the house is finished before posting a pic.

I started a new model I've been working on the last two days, the backside of a sunflower. Mostly for fun, because I felt like it while I'm waiting for molds.

I haven't been writing about the travesty we call our government though anyone who follows me on FB knows that my news feed is mostly outrage. Making lists of all the ways Trump and his Republican enablers in Congress are despicable human beings doesn't change anything and surely by now anyone whose eyes were capable of being opened can now see. I make phone calls and tweet to deaf ears. It's all down to the mid-terms now. If we don't take back Congress in November then everything we have fought for for the last 40 years will be gone. We've already lost so much from public lands to workplace protections to environmental protections, the rich are richer and the government is in the most debt ever and now we are about to have the Supreme Court transformed by a man who has committed sexual assault, has connections to shady big money, who has committed perjury, and who intends to overturn Roe vs Wade.

What is there to say? If we don't win in November, this country, the one we thought we lived in, will be gone. He'll have two more years to finish driving the nails in.