We're starting day three (or is it four?) of forecasted temperatures in the 100s. On Monday, fast-moving severe thunderstorms hit in the afternoon. I stepped outside to bring in the hammock and to put the spider plant on the porch floor (so it wouldn't blow over on its stand), looked towards WMC and the black-green color of the sky combined with a curl to the clouds made me very uneasy. The cat didn't care and wouldn't come inside. When the wind started to get close to that rushing train sound, I stepped into the pantry, the closest thing we have to an interior room. I heard hail and peeked -- not much bigger than peas. After about 15 minutes, it had passed. Richmond's West End was hard hit -- and that's where I was scheduled to be at 4:30, to help rededicate a renovated library. Since it and much of the neighborhood were without power, we couldn't let folks inside, but maybe 100 people showed up, which was nice. Not nice: the way suburban drivers fly through intersections with dead stop lights.
Friday night, I think the storms hit here around 11 or midnight, but all I did was turn over, acknowledge the thunder, and go back to sleep.
I cleaned the gutters on the front of the house yesterday; one downspout is blocked up. I cannot let them go like that! (I wanted to wait until the tree came down to call my guy. And now I am wiating for Comcast to restring the cable so it's not a hazard to the guy. Grrrr.)
Last night, we bowled to celebrate a friend's birthday; we left the Broad St. bowling alley and entered a lighting show we hadn't even realized was happening! It poured some more in the middle of the night.
With all this excitement, we are grateful to have had the oak trimmed and the dead elm removed. Too bad Comcast won't come and pick up their f'ing cable, a month later.
In veggie news: all veg went in late. The green beans look scrawny. I will have to check to see if I had begun harvesting this time last year. The tomato by the boxwoods looks good; the ones by the tree stump look good, just behind. The cucumbers there look promising, too. Everything else looks terrible.
The heat has begun to sunburn the hydrangeas, which had a good run. They white ones are getting ready to bloom, already!
In bloom:
phlox
A neighbor had yellow marigolds next to this grey stuff and it looked terrific; need to be a bigger variety, though. That blackberry lily did bloom.
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| love the way these bloom; leaves are hail-bruised |
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| veg getting going by tree stump |
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| blackberry lily! |
2 comments:
am i just stupid to be surprised that comcast hasn't come to fix that STILL??
The internet is still on the ground. P has a meeting tonight; maybe I will be on hold with Comcast for a while, to pass my time.
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