We are still bouncing back and forth between spring and summer. Thursday was hot with a strong west wind. Humidity was about 12%. We’ve dodged the hail, high winds and worse that have afflicted the Panhandle this month but we’ve also dodged the rain. I’ve recorded less than half an inch of moisture for May. While it was hot Thursday, there have been some chilly days this week as well. One day I might head off for work in shorts and a T-shirt and the next day in jeans and a couple of layers on the top end. We have some relatively cool weather in the forecast and ‘spec we better enjoy. It’s likely summer will set in any day now. Continue reading “Memorial Day”→
For all my whining and complaining about the weeds, the relatively moist start to the year has had a salubrious effect on the flowers, too. There has been a steady parade starting with the apricot trees in February. The iris that Genna planted around the place bloom at different times. The plantings I’ve done around 1911 are several years old now and really are showy. That is most gratifying. The new bed, or should I say the improvements, I did in the lily pool area on the south side of 2005 are finished and I’ve planted a few drought-tolerant plants in it though it will be a year at least before the show up much. Continue reading “May flowers”→
April is finally over and aren’t we glad. Its not just that we have to turn over so much of our hard-earned money to the clowns in the District of Columbia, but the weather is one day pleasant and the next day unpleasant. As the weather warms the weeds kick into high gear and take advantage of not just the pleasant days but in their contrariness keep right on growing through the wind, cold and especially rain so that when the weather finally clears one is just that much farther behind. There’s no way to keep up.
We wound up the month above average in moisture thanks to a late snow storm that gave us over an inch of moisture. Kari, Abigail and I drove through that storm on our way to Albuquerque for a volleyball tournament. That was a Friday evening and it wasn’t much fun to dodge the trucks on I-40 in the dark and snow but we managed to not get mashed. There was no snow accumulation in Albuquerque and what fell on SA was gone by the time we got home Sunday afternoon.
April 30. 2017 ornamental pear damaged by high winds
There had been high winds in Amarillo that day but even that had died down by late afternoon but not before taking down half of the the ornamental pear in the front yard of 2005 plus a few minor limbs here and there around the place. I spent that following Monday cutting up and hauling off the downed portion of the pear tree and the miscellaneous limbs which was not only hard work but put me just that much farther behind on the rest of the place. Oh well.
We spent the weekend in Lubbock at a volleyball tournament. Abigail’s team did pretty well, making it to the gold round. They encountered some stiff competition there and we were sent home early Sunday afternoon. Being shorthanded due to illness and injury to some players, Abigail played all around, which meant she never left the floor. Several other girls had to do the same. Abigail handled it pretty well and Kari and I enjoyed watching her play. It made the tournament more entertaining than when she’s in and out of games. Continue reading “Adam and Steve”→
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