Greetings and welcome!<\/p>\n
We had some unexpected rain Friday night into Saturday morning. Thankfully it did not amount to too much.<\/p>\n
I was surprised by the progress of the earliest maples since Thursday. That show is on. It wasn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n
This morning\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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\u2019t like 20 years ago, but it it better than the past few years.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Time for me to get back to work. Have a good Sunday and thank you for visiting!<\/p>\n
RJB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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