9 hour errand day in the city yesterday, to include 2 hour eye exam appointment (new place is why it took so long). All that after 3 hours of sleep working storms all night. (Photos below.)Sinus allergy/eye exam headache this morning. Hoping it shakes off soon.
Noticed the blackberries and strawberries in the garden going gangbusters. There are baby tomatoes in the hoop house. Horseradish looks amazing. Sweet potatoes are starting to go insane, except one bucket, that isn't draining for some reason. I'll fix that today or tomorrow. For now the bucket is tipped sideways to allow water out.
Will be near or over 100 all week. July weather in June, awesome (not).
You couldn't cram another human or camper in the state park below below me, 3 day weekend plus father's day. If one more person goes in, a person is going to get squeezed out and shoot out the other side of the park.
Met nice couple at the market last night, which was full of people stocking up for the park. Chatted a bit and they cringed at the price of eggs. I asked how many they were getting, and they said just a dozen for the weekend as they would be in the cooler. I asked them how about three dozen they don't have to keep in the cooler? I take eggs to the campground hosts around the park on the busy weekends. So I took the couple 3 dozen eggs as a neighborly gift. They were thrilled as they both grew up on farms and said it's been ages since they had local eggs. You never know who might be a new customer. LOL.
Other than that, inside for the hot and HUMID weekend.
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I have about 200 more lightning shots, but that's enough for today. Some were so close, I felt them in my fillings. One was weird, I heard a zapping, then flash then boom. It was like the lightning charged and ran the electric wires by the house first, then struck. Probably what was going on.
Afterward I was perusing some tips for new things we can implement, but I moved the rain gutters and barrels to the top of my to do list. I found tree ring soaker hoses, which I had already asked hubs to make from the existing hoses I have. I also read that we can use the condensation from our HVAC for non food plants, something I wasn’t too sure about and was advised not to do in the past. I like the idea though, during monsoon season I capture up to five gallons in a day depending on the humidity and it always feels like such a waste to dump it, especially when we don’t actually get rain.
