Mother nature or climate catastrophe, whichever, but I am through with this Iowa summer. I have struggled to keep my garden, sweet corn and flowers green since our last rain the end of June only to see it all basically destroyed in a vicious windstorm that brought exactly .1 inch of rain! I am going to let everything make it on its own....or not. One exception will be my tomatoes as they basically had less damage and I do LOVE fresh tomatoes. I will keep watering those! We are also starting to worry about our well so I think it best to stop all the endless watering of everything. I have spent all day cleaning up sticks and branches from every single INCH of our property and still have several hours left to do. My back is killing me. Thank goodness Craig came over and sawed up the bigger branches and helped me get them on the burn pile. Mark picked a good time to have knee surgery and miss out on all this fun! :-)
Well, this wasn't a very positive post, was it? Ha! I think I am just very tired of it all right now. On a brighter note, we are going to Lake Okoboji in August with Megan and family and Matt so that will be a glorious time with our very dear old friends Jim and Nancy. Cannot wait. As soon as we return from our lake trip I am heading to Peoria to babysit our new grandson Ryan when Megan goes back to work. Doesn't that sound much better than raking up sticks and trying to keep dying plants alive? Yes! There is a bright light at the end of this tunnel. :-)
