…is that I’m sitting outside in my backyard right now, 11:30 at night, and I have not been bitten by a single mosquito. I live in an area with many small lakes and swampy areas all around, and on a typical Summer evening I would be eaten alive by those little vampires.
We do need the rain badly though. It seems like all of Canada is burning, and in the north part of Michigan’s lower peninsula, a 3000 acre forest fire was burning less than a week ago. Just a few miles south of some land and a cabin my friend has.
Supposed to rain tomorrow. I’m hoping for a good soaking rain, even if it means the skeeters come back
Ha, yeah, I hear ya digs, but droughts catch up to all of us if they last long enough.
I am no gardener, but we did decide to plant 4 small pine trees and 2 forsythia bushes in our yard a couple months ago, so I’ve been schlepping 5 gallon buckets of water to them almost every day to make sure they don’t die.
yeah, I’m in east central Wisconsin on Lake Michigan, and we’re pretty dry away from the lake now. Rare mosquitos, which is really quite nice. I had my first mosquito bite yesterday, doing some work in our woods. A single bite only, and it’s nearly mid June! Yay!
But I’ve also got 25 acres of cultivated fields (farmed by an organic grower who rents the land) and he’d sure like some rain now. We have gotten some drizzle overnight, so that’s nice. But I expect more bites now.
We finally got some much-needed rain yesterday-- not a downpour, but it kept falling pretty steadily for hours. Really chilled things down too-- feels like November out there this morning.
It is a shock to see the drought monitor map and see California clear and the dust bowl states deep red. I selfishly worry about grocery prices and cattle feed not available. And then after the crops are lost there will be one or two big storms and the “average” year will blur the cause of the expensive commodities.
Even on the east coast things are dry with fire danger up. But mosquito level is up too.
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I don’t think it’s selfish to worry about the cost of food. We’re still dealing with elevated prices from supply chain issues brought on by the pandemic.
