Greetings and welcome!
There is massive carnage at my house this morning. The lady beetles came out this week and I was ready for them. I use this stuff that you mix up in a pump up sprayer. I hit the windows and doors inside and out, around the air conditioners, around the firewood hatch, and then I did the outside walls. I don’t have a single one inside but the outside is littered with carcasses. It works great on other creepy crawlies too, and lasts for months.
The storm last weekend and the wind this week have taken a lot of the fall color down. There is still a lot out there, but there are a lot of bare trees. The main players now are the oaks and tamaracks, with some beech and cottonwood hanging on. Here are some pictures from yesterday on Knowles Creek Rd.
Here is the only event that I have for this weekend, so far..
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Oct. 21 |
The weather for the weekend looks ok with a chance for rain Saturday night into Sunday. There is a slight chance of rain Saturday according to the NWS forecast, and I am on board with that. The conditions might be there for the rain to come in the afternoon. They have temperatures forecast to be 75 Friday, 68 Saturday, and 61 Sunday.
That having been said, the last two weekends looked ok on Thursday too, and ended up as wash-outs.
You will want to really watch out for deer on the roads, especially from sunset on into the night. The doe deer are plentiful on the roads and apparently are pretty stubborn about staying there. I had two yesterday near McCaslin Mountain that just wouldn’t move. One in each lane, two feet away from my car as I am laying on the horn. It wasn’t until they were going to get tipped over by the bumper that they decided to move. Thinking about it this morning, I could have just gotten out the camera and made them disappear.
At any rate, that is not the first time that it happened this week. I don’t know why they are so stubborn about staying in the road, but I am ready to mount the plow on the truck and start driving that so that I don’t wreck the car.
It looks like there is a big change coming in the weather about the middle of next week. Our 70s will be a distant memory, and our first snow could come about the 31st with a pretty good storm. Ready for that? Me neither. I had better get going..
Have a good weekend and thank you for visiting!
RJB