... but the hot dry weather has returned.
Mid-90's today, and pushing all of 100 tomorrow... hot all through next week.
We're under a "fire weather advisory" because of the dry conditions, heat and wind.
Because many of the failed corn fields have been mowed off and tilled under, the exposed dirt will soon be filling the air if the winds keep blowin'... but the black fields do make a fine fire-break if'n a blaze does get started.
Even the left-overs from Isaac, by all the models, are supposed to track well south of where I'm sitting.
Ya' know? I haven't received a single mosquito or deer fly bite in 2012... not one single bite.
We had a few ticks show up real early (earlier than normal), but even they disappeared by mid-May.
No frogs, toads, snakes, lizards, or even mice in the wood stacks... no bugs, grubs or worms under dead logs and such.
I haven't heard a single tree frog this year... and only the rare locust.
It almost feels like I'm on an alien planet... like I don't belong here... weird, and scary at the same time.
Mid-90's today, and pushing all of 100 tomorrow... hot all through next week.
We're under a "fire weather advisory" because of the dry conditions, heat and wind.
Because many of the failed corn fields have been mowed off and tilled under, the exposed dirt will soon be filling the air if the winds keep blowin'... but the black fields do make a fine fire-break if'n a blaze does get started.
Even the left-overs from Isaac, by all the models, are supposed to track well south of where I'm sitting.
Ya' know? I haven't received a single mosquito or deer fly bite in 2012... not one single bite.
We had a few ticks show up real early (earlier than normal), but even they disappeared by mid-May.
No frogs, toads, snakes, lizards, or even mice in the wood stacks... no bugs, grubs or worms under dead logs and such.
I haven't heard a single tree frog this year... and only the rare locust.
It almost feels like I'm on an alien planet... like I don't belong here... weird, and scary at the same time.