See, Anomaly!

We awoke to the pa-ting of falling water in the down-spout, sometime around quarter-to-six. I got up to turn on the coffee maker and opened the slider to embrace the September rain. Eventually we collected about a quarter inch, and it ended about 10:00AM at 63-degrees, with a high of 76.5°F at 3:00PM.

Tomorrow will open at around the same 64-degrees, then ratchet up to the mid-80’s, and continue on up through the weekend – and into a week of low 90’s. There’s some suggestion is that it’s gonna be a long Fall and warm Winter…

72.1°F at 7:08AM

Going to 100°F

Just had a smattering of rain blow through, with a bit of thunder – unsettled Weather conditions, so Welcome to September! Things are projected to cool-down this week – mainly into the 90’s which is a bit of relief – but the two giant tomato plants seem to be enjoying the heat and are being productive.

66.4°F at 6:15AM – Going to Upper 90’s

Pink!

Got some high and away smudge-clouds over the Sierra, a 500-acre wild fire down in Somerset south of Omo Ranch Road, and we’re expecting 101+ degrees tomorrow… So with that in mind I’m grilling a steak this morning. Breakfast is a blender full of Gazpacho with a touch of char-grilled poblano peppers, onion, and red peppers. Yummy!

Welcome August

3:45pm @ 94.3°F – Heat Index: 91.2°F – whatev…

We’re doing solid mid-90’s all week, with maybe a peek at 100 coming up next Wednesday…which means it’s time for more yardwork! But only between 6:30am and about 8:00am. Last week we decided to try and soften up the view from the ADU by planting some lavender along the face of El Brutalissimo – the concrete terrace-block wall.

Got a drip-line and a bunch of sprinkler emitters running off the still functional Station #2, of the automatic system.

Station #3 (the 100-foot Embankment) is still out of commission but can be manually operated, and we will be up on the Embankment early in the morning to transplant some hodge-podge yellow iris — strategery to divert Winter run-off water, in fact.

Everybody have a great Summer!

Flag Day!

Grilled some corn-on-the-cobs (2) and Bockwurst, and watched the Army Birthday Parade.

Coming back from the grocery store saw a bunch of aging professional Progressive protestors gathered at the Park-N-Ride lot by the freeway with freshly printed signs of protestation, and waved to them with my finger…

Mother’s Day

It’s May already?? Time flies when you’re having fun, like raking out and dragging 20-yards of cedar bark for landscaping the ADU. The pile in front is 10-yards and it’s hiding the septic covers, along with two lime trees.

You can’t see around the corner but it’s there, and there will be more coming before everything is all done. The construction equipment really churned up a lot of rocks (and left tire tracks and divots everywhere), so I have to be careful mowing the field and ensure the John Deere’s ejection port is not facing any of those big beautiful glass doors, lest it pick up a rock and I shoot a window out!

In other news I refreshed the tired old and faded flags with new ones for the summer season that is rapidly approaching. On Flag Day (June 14) I plan to fly the fifteen star Old Glory – the Fort Sumter one – and on the 4th of July I plan to fly the Betsy Ross flag. Heh. 92-degrees yesterday so Spring is practically over and we’re headed into Summer!