It's 66 degrees and muggy.
What a thunder storm we had, during the night! And, finally, it rained - not a downpour, but just a good, steady rain that lasted quite a long time.
- Monday: Hazy, hot, and humid with the chance for an afternoon shower or storm. High 90
- Monday night: Partly cloudy and muggy. Low 66
- Tuesday: Hazy, hot, and humid. Slight chance of a late day storm. High 92 Low 70
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I didn't have a great deal of time for a Ride in the Country, yesterday, but did drive down Beaver Creek Road as far as Bailey Lake Road to gather some wildflowers. The Beaver Ponds are all nearly empty: perhaps someone knows whether or not this is the result of trapping? or did the former occupants simply decide to move elsewhere?
This barn wall at Dave and Donna Wicks' caught my eye ......
as did this "planter" down in an old pasture on Newberry Road.
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Two years ago, our pair of Carolina Wrens - called The Lone Wrenger & Tonto, because they have white eye stripes - built a nest in a windowbox directly outside one of our kitchen windows. But then came a huge rainstorm and the nest, which was more like a "hut" shaped like a rounded lean-to, collapsed. They're quite vocal birds, and it sounded to us as if the "she" was giving the "he" quite a tongue-lashing in re: his roof-building abilities! Although we could hear discussions continuing, for several days, we never knew where they rebuilt - or rented - but they've stayed with us, even in the Winter.********
Yesterday, I suddenly spotted both of them checking out the window boxes, again. "She," however, seemed to discourage that idea and, instead, they began to build a new nest in a hanging Impatiens just outside my kitchen door!
The plant is fairly-well protected from rain, so the new structure may have survived last night's rain, but - even if it did - how am I supposed to water the plant?!?!
I had a better view, yesterday, of the front door of this newly constructed building - the Belfield Agency on West Main Sreet.
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The plant is fairly-well protected from rain, so the new structure may have survived last night's rain, but - even if it did - how am I supposed to water the plant?!?!
I had a better view, yesterday, of the front door of this newly constructed building - the Belfield Agency on West Main Sreet.
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And the Yankee are moving up!
