Good Morning!!!! 80F @ 5:30AM. Partly cloudy. High 99F. Winds SSE at 10 to 15 mph.
There are showers in the forecast for tonight, not a good thing because there's also a chance for dry lightning. Yesterday was the one year anniversary for the start of the Bear fire, which grew into the North Complex Fire, and grew to over 300,000 acres and wiped out two little towns east of here. It also led to almost a week without power, a mandatory evacuation which I ignored, and more than one night without sleep going outside every half hour looking for burning embers falling from the sky.
Thanks for the reminder, Ken. I have batteries on the charger I need to unplug.
Wichita might have some pretty good BBQ, Paul; Kansas City sure did when I used to go there for business years ago.
That hummer might have been murdered by one of its own, Drew. They get pretty possessive around the feeders.
I was very thankful for the canopy on the tractor yesterday as the temps crested the century mark and I just kept on working. The first bit of trench filling was shoveling from the bucket around the pump house, but after that it was all tractor work. Took a couple breaks for water and food, but got the first hundred feet done, so I can get the fire truck out now and the loop to the back of the house is open, too. Turns out that the sand I'm using in the bottom of the trench is almost enough to make up for all the rocks that came out of the trench, since what's left after screening it seems to be enough dirt to fill it up. The wind had a mind of its own, though, sometimes blowing the dust away, sometimes not blowing at all, and sometimes blowing it right back into my face. More than once I had to quit dumping because I could neither see nor breathe, and I finished up brown again from head to toe. The next session will start with a good greasing and air filter cleaning for the tractor.
Hang in there, gang, Friday's comin'!
