At the moment no breath of fall. It is sweltering hot! Yesterday it was 35C, and when the sun came around the side of the house and shone on the thermometer the liquid rose right to the top of the glass tube, 56C.
I was out working on cutting the overgrown bushes/trees on my frontage by the fence. It was a very wet spring with high ground water from last year, and resulted in a huge pool of standing water. About 400 feet of my frontage had water, with the deepest point around two feet; with my fence of white posts and slung white chain going right down the middle. Slowly the ground absorbed this water and I kept cutting down the peripheral, coming at it from each end, and bit by bit reclaiming lawn from the cattails, tall weeds, and overgrown grass.
My return after three weeks had the entire patch free of standing water. Back to - starting from the roadway - the ditch, my fence, a mowed eight foot strip, and then my bushes. The ground in the lower spots was still spongy with ground water merely below the surface. Yet, dry enough for my mower to drive upon.
I successfully chopped down the road side of my fence line, the remaining couple hundred by ten feet of lush growth being turned in windrows like that of a hay field. It’s nice being able to drive the entire length of the fence and frontage again. I then proceeded onto the other side of the fence.
The overgrowth has not been trimmed back for a couple of years and some of the bushes were flattened into the lawn strip by winter’s snow fall as well. I mowed up to the bramble of branches and then started cutting and pulling and piling the sticks. I made it through three of the main tangles of bushes and started upon the fourth, when there was some buzzing and then ouch! a hornet stung me. One lone hornet. I looked around and didn’t see a nest anywhere or hear any stirred up swarm. (Thankfully.)
I am mildly allergic-ish to insect bits and stings. My last bee sting on my face had me balloon up quite unrecognizable. With the heat, and a possible nasty reaction pending, I packed it up for the day and drove back to the house. I was stung on the back of my neck directly on the left side muscles. Time I got to the house I had a nice sized red welt.
This morning the welt is a bit smaller, and my neck is stiff and sore on the left side. Ha, the selfie mode on my i-phone only gets used to inspect self injuries and such that I can’t directly see or use a mirror on. Very very few actual selfie portraits on my camera roll. Lol.
Anyhow, going to be heading out to hopefully finish off the fence line. Early morning work to beat the daytime heat. Will be taking some wasp spray in case I do see a nest, and I will be carefully scoping out the area before disturbing things too much.
Originally Posted by Gerda
(((((Full Moon Over Your Yard and My Cabin's Yard and the Mountains and the Ponds and all the Creatures)))))))
Oh yes, the bright moon bathing the night in a silvery glow. Interrupted by my dogs barking at the shinning disc. Haha.
A moonlit cabin in the mountains surrounded by ponds and life, sounds so wonderful.
Take care Gerda.
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