Greetings and welcome!
We had some unexpected rain Friday night into Saturday morning. Thankfully it did not amount to too much.
I was surprised by the progress of the earliest maples since Thursday. That show is on. It wasn’t much Thu, but yesterday evening a trip to Crooked Lake found a lot of the earliest maples in full color or getting close to it. There is still plenty of green out there, but the big fall color show has started.
This morning’s rain was a good one. I would guess that we had in excess of an inch of rain. There was a little thunder and lightning and some good downpours. I suppose that I should have expected that with dew points in the 60s and 70s. The last couple of days have been very humid and there was a lot of available moisture. I will welcome the break from the humidity.
The bug of the week is the gnat. They like to fly into your eyes and ears, and they are plentiful. Usually they are a March or April annoyance, but it has been an unusual year and here we are.
The gnats were a pain in the wood yard, but I was thinking of bow hunters who want to stay still in their stands. Some of those guys must have had a tough afternoon. If it is any consolation, I have been seeing a lot more deer this year. It isn’t like 20 years ago, but it it better than the past few years.
Working in the yard this week I have been running into a lot of toads and frogs. There was a toad by the front step Friday night that was as almost as big as my fist. Probably a dozen times Fri night and Saturday I had them jump up from the lawn or be under stuff I was moving. There were a bunch on the gravel roads too. I guess that it really was a wet summer.
Time for me to get back to work. Have a good Sunday and thank you for visiting!
RJB