Some Rain

 It's the big weekend!

he UN-official start of summer

Two days of 91 degrees did nothing to alleviate the moderate drought.  We did get some rain Wednesday 5/27 around 6:30pm, it was predicted to be worse than it was for us anyway. got a little more on the 29th

I took Friday off before Memorial Day, a bit cool, good for working. I did some mowing before the weekend, Rose and I went food shopping.  It's supposed to rain all weekend now, WTH?

No more signs that the bear has been through...

We have not seen the fawn yet, Rose is quite sure the doe was dropping a fawn the other night.

The Maple 'Copters from the Old Farmers Almanac

Only once before have we seen this many helicopters come down from our Maple trees, the cherry trees are loaded with flowers this year too.  Not sure if it's because of the drought last year, or if it's a sign it'll be a bad winter.

Only Time will tell...

 

 

Our DR String trimmer broke a bolt that holds the ball head on the machine, it's 7+ years old now, seems a lot of stuff here is breaking down lately. Jarrod said he has an easy-out that'll remove the broken bolt from the shaft.

Yay!  I took an educated guess based on when Rose remembers her dad having the tiller growing up, I found a manual that appeared to be the right vintage online. I started with 50 year old tillers and found a 4 speed Horse model tiller manual.  Appears this was the right one, I ordered a Troy Bilt Genuine OEM Belt Gw 9245 from Amazon. It took all of 20 minutes taking off the old belt and prying the new one into place over the pulleys!  I was confident enough I bought two belts, whew... sometimes I get lucky.

Saturday the 29th, pretty much rained all day today, a nice slow rain, just what we needed. I'm sure it won't resolve our moderate drought here in New Boston, it can't hurt though.

We're watching the weather here, supposed to till the garden, we'll have to watch for a window on Monday... 

Our 2020 Garden below after one pass through with the tiller, it takes 3-4 passes to get the leaves, grass clippings, peat, and stuff chopped in good, 2021's garden will be bigger.
 

 

Zeb is watching, so you'd best be good!