Yeah !!

Filled my son's truck with garbage.  What was left from my last sort and toss, some house garbage and some from outside.  We came back and loaded 6 bags of pop cans, his aluminum scraps and steel scraps.  He made $24 and I made $20.  There is regular recycling and some stuff for Habitat for Humanity left to take.  (The truck loads are always in a small truck)  The basement is getting better!

Update
We took one load out of the basement a couple days later.  Half to H. for H. and half to Goodwill!

Keeping busy with

putting up the tent to air it out,  it's clean  and in good repair. Still.  Also looked over the tarps, then put it all away again. I will take it to my parents next week  and camp out in their yard.  My kids will come, grandgirls and my brother and family from Oklahoma.  I am excited.  Seeing my brother is an every 2 or 3 year event.

Last week I made some bike panniers for my son for the front.  They hang from the center of the bike on a front rack.  He modified a rear rack and had a buddy weld a bar on both side.  After constructing the bag, he put together a rigid insert for the pocket on the inside to hold it away from the tire, modified some metal supports that reinforce corners in construction into hooks.  He is pleased with them.  He also made 5 gallon bucket panniers for the back.  After the first caping trip, I had to modify them a bit and now he is off again.

On the news . . .

. . . .  tonight the weather comment for our area " 61 degrees and over for three days in a row is considered a night time heat wave".  The reasoning being is that we are not used to any heat overnight. (I had to laugh) For so may years now, I have have always read or heard from the experts that tomatos can be planted outside when the tempuratures reach 60 degrees everynight. NOT here! We have had warmer than usual nights for an early summer especially after last year (so cold, that the comforter stayed on the bed till mid July, it's been off the bed for a month now).

Rain, rain come again!

Summer rain, soft gentle droplets that are cool on the skin and welcome!  The air is warm and close, no wind at all.  Trees rustle and ping under the gentle movement of the rain, the dry grasses whisper.  Nature is making music, again.  If you stop and listen, be still; we are rewarded with beauty.  So outside I have to go, to take in the beauty that nature offers.  It's 11 pm at night, the darkness wraps around me with a feeling t=of security, yet I feel freedom.  Then the sounds of the highway break thru! Bah humbug, a very discordent,  human interference.

Rain, real downpour rain is desparatly needed.  June is usually a very wet month, not this year.   We have not had a drop of rain in July.  This soft rain is dry almost as it hits the ground.  Please RAIN!!!

I love our green cool springs and summers, so far it's too dry (also a recipe for fires).