Here in southeast Texas, our little acreage is just about burned up. We received 1.86 inches during July and only 1.15 so far in August. Compare that to last year at 8.12 in July in 2.11 in August! Temperatures have been hot, not record-breaking, but combined with no rain makes for miserable weather. Our garden is crispy. We do try to keep the zinnias and arbor plants watered for the butterflies and birds.
It has been too hot to sit outside and enjoy the canopy
and sitting area my husband set up. Hurry up autumn!
This has also been the August from hell for my health. Bronchitis and an upper respirator infection have knocked me out. It started with an occasional sore throat in early July and became a heavy cough by the end of the month. The coughing has been the worst! The sofa, heating pad, a box of Kleenex, Aleve, and Zicam have been my friends. The one thing that has NOT been affected is my appetite! In spite of food tasting different, I eat with gusto. Hopefully, I am finally on the mend.
Rosie helped me do a little crocheting.
The current status of my sewing room is "anticipation" (Katy is holding the cover down over my pressing mat). I have SO many UFOs I want to finish and new projects to start before Christmas, and August was a bust. I'm hoping today I can finish trimming the same pile of Quilty Stars HSTs I mentioned in
my last post - hah. I am crossing my fingers my next post will show progress on something!
So sorry to hear the crud has kept you down for so long, Linda! Hope you're feeling better each day. I know that feeling of longing to get back to your sewing room so well! It has been hot and dry here, too, while our kids in western Kansas and Nebraska are having record wet years. Crazy how that happens!
ReplyDeleteThank you Diann, I actually do feel better! Yes weather patterns are so weird. :)
DeleteI’m so sorry to hear you’ve had such a tough summer, Linda. Your canopy looks like a wonderful place to sit and enjoy nature and hand work, so I hope you get to use it soon. Our localized drought got some relief yesterday and last night, and it was good to hear the gentle rain with the windows open (no breeze). We didn’t even mind getting a bit wet on a walk yesterday evening. So I will wish that the same will happen for you. Take care, and I hope you can get back to sewing soon.
ReplyDeleteThank you Janine! My HST pile did get reduced yesterday, and I feel better today, AND we are due some rain today. :)
DeleteUgh, how awful to be sick. So sorry to hear this. Hoping by now you are on the mend. It is so strange to me to read about relying on rain to water your property. I know this is how much of the country does things but we don't. Everything is on automatic drip systems here. There would never be a vegetable garden without it. Years ago when we moved to Pennsylvania for a couple of years, we were shocked that there were no sprinkler or drip systems installed on the property we had bought. So funny. We just assumed everyone irrigated this way. Hope you get some rain and cooler weather soon!!
ReplyDeleteWe did try a drip system the first of summer, but the hoses we bought did not deliver properly, so that bit the dust! I think my garden will be smaller next year. And we have another week of 100+ temps and no rain forecast - boo!
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