80F and starting to cloud up @ 18:30, Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued a bit ago for Summit County.
And Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued just to the east.
LWS reports that the high temp today reached 81.9F ...
Also reports that we've had 0.31" of rain so far since midnight.
Heading down to around 50F for the overnight low.
Asked The Woman to just pull back a little of the straw over the strawberries and have a peek to see how they were doing when She went around back yesterday.
Next time I looked out the window, She had the entire bed almost all raked off ... creating the new problem of
"plants uncovered ... but no fence or covering to protect them" ..
When I commented about that She replied well then I
"needed to get busy and get those row covers ordered" ...
Fortunately, I remembered that we had several old (but never used) rolls of material out in the garage from long ago, one of which turned out to be some white Vigoro netting with around 1/8" mesh.
So we stuck that over them for the time being.
The good news out of all that is that, for the most part, the plants have made it through the winter. And I'm sure that they will take off now that they can get some sun.
After that was done I got hopper feeder and two suet feeders refilled, also scattered some for the ground feeders. Tube feeders now need refilled.
Then I worked on coring the parts of the front lawn where I had mowed. Finished that up and went around back and started working on that area. Got stuck a couple of times - still too wet - but was able to get unstuck and came back up to the house.
Woman was looking out the window after I came in and announced
"We have deer out back ... get the gun !"
So I literally did just that ... and then went out around the side of the house and fired off a couple of rounds of birdshot in their direction.
Some of them didn't scatter after the first shot ... but they sure took off after the second one ...
Spent some time last night working on a large Menards order, will finish that up and get it placed this evening for pick up tomorrow.
Amazon dropped off the special fertilizer for the palm tree which I ordered last night a bit ago, the other (previous) order just showed up, on a different truck apparently.
Hope everyone is having a decent Sunday ...