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Rain, Clogs & A Sunset

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The reward for enduring lots and lots and lots of rain.

Spectacular.

Yesterday found us getting drenched while trying to clear our culvert. It had been blocked by leaves and was overflowing into the street. The culvert is a ditch that runs along the road on our side of the street and is, in reality, the county’s property and responsibility but they didn’t work yesterday. It turns into a pipe under our driveway – perhaps 10 inches or so in diameter? I’m not sure. Anyway, it was that pipe that was clogged. The water level was very high and it was moving fast but couldn’t get through the pipe.

Once we got it cleared, the water moved right on through.

I got a call on Saturday from the framer and our lithograph is ready. So we’re going to get that this morning and I’ll share it with you tomorrow. Exciting!

I’m sensing you’re all very busy this week. Of course you are! Travel and preparations for Thanksgiving are probably your top priority. So I’m going to keep my posts on the short side this week – though I will  post every day.

Huzzah – it’s sunny today!

Happy Monday.

Rain and Wind

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First: I’m shocked, as is everyone, at the loss of Representative Elijah Cummings today. He was a true patriot, a civil rights leader, and a man of great integrity. May he rest in peace. I’m deeply greatful for his service to our country.

A profound loss for our country.

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Thank you for all of your incredibly supportive comments on yesterday’s post! I’m glad you understand and you clearly do. We’re very excited, of course, and have a lot to do before we leave, but it will all work out and we’ll soon be in our favorite city.

We had torrential rain yesterday afternoon, evening, and throughout the night – along with winds. There are a lot of catalpa leaves on the ground this morning and we have a wind advisory for the rest of the day. And maybe tomorrow, as well.

You know by now that I do not like high winds. Especially winds that go on all day long.

Looks like I can’t rake or mow the lawn. We’re due for more rain today. I’ll try to do both before we leave but whatever happens, happens. We did get the gutters cleaned out yesterday; in fact, it started raining heavily while Don was still on the roof. I told him to come down and he did. We also ran a couple of errands. I needed a new handbag that was big enough for the trip. Does anyone else still call it a purse? I do and I feel like I have to stop myself and say ‘bag’ or ‘handbag’ instead. But they’ll always be purses to me.

I also needed an ‘in-between’ jacket. Not winter-heavy, not early fall light. We found a nice one that was on sale. And there you go!

Now I have to do things like hold the mail, buy some travel sizes of things we need, find the timers for the lights, do laundry, decide what to pack, etc.

Thank you again. Love you all.

Happy Thursday.

Smashed Hydrangeas

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We had intense storms yesterday. Torrential rain. This is the result:

Yes, my beautiful hydrangeas were pummeled by the rain. I watched as it happened. My experience in the past tells me there’s no way to get them upright again. But I’m going to wait until later today when they’re not so rain-sodden and give it the old college try. Does anyone have any helpful tips?

The grasses in the big garden bed were also smashed down, but I’m pretty sure the sun and I can get them upright again. The hydrangeas? Doubtful.

Crap.

We watched Sense and Sensibility  last night, a movie I love but one that Don always thought of as a girls movie. I ran down the list of actors in the cast and he began to rethink his initial assessment. Then, as we watched it, he kept saying, “This is a wonderful movie.”

I told you so.

But Amazon Prime? I have a bone to pick with you. Your thumbnail description says: “Emma Thompson stars in the captivating romance based on Jane Austen’s classic novel of two sisters’ search for love in strict Victorian society.”

Ummm…a big fat NO. It takes place at the end of the 18th Century.

I wonder who wrote that little blurb? I’ve given Feedback to Amazon. We’ll see if it changes.

A while back at the start of spring, I mentioned that a couple of plants hadn’t come back, including the balloon flower.

I was wrong. It did come back and, not only that, it had self-seeded. So now there are 3 or 4 plants. This is what the flower looks like before it opens:

A little balloon.

Then, when it opens:

Aren’t they lovely?

Today, I’ll weed a bit since the ground is so wet. Have to pick up a book at the library. And I’ll work on the hydrangeas. (Sob.) And I’ll read. Mowing tomorrow, I think, the grass is pretty wet right now.

Happy Sunday.

 

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