Sunday, June 10, 2007

Up and running again

We're up and running again...no thanks to some squirrel damage high up on the pole.


Billy Donovan is back at Florida. Whew. So now we can look forward to following Florida football AND basketball.


We are edging into a drought here. Mike mowed the crispy lawn, and we've been watering all weekend. I ran the garden hose directly onto the base of our Joseph's Coat rose, for over an hour, and the water never ran down the hillside. It just kept sinking into the ground, like watching water go into the sandy Florida soil. Temperatures are in the 90s, but the humidity is below 25% and a breeze is blowing. It's like a convection oven for plants. It was actually nice enough even until the middle of the day that we enjoyed lunch on the deck, though.


There is one way to beat the heat:




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