I had some help in the orchard today. It was a fellow whose wife is spending the weekend with "the girls".
I had him lugging buckets of water in the orchard and moving the trickle-buckets. He was talkative.
I learned that "Sitting is the new Smoking". He also shared that his wife was enchanted with the idea of Enneagrams, a method of categorizing personalities.
We watered about 24 trees and I will finish the job tomorrow. Most of the time was spent in the shade waiting for the water tubs to fill.
As we were knocking off due to the heat, this is what came over the horizon
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| The Hill Orchard in the foreground. |
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| The view from a slightly higher elevation |
I don't expect it to hit the orchard. It is a fairly narrow pop-up T-storm.
---Update: The orchards got 0.15" of rain. I will be carrying water today---
Do you know a good Rain Dance? I haven't had so much as an inch of rain more than once in the past two months. All I can do is sit and watch the grass die, and spend $50/week on hay.
ReplyDeleteI used to own this tent. It was guaranteed to start raining 24 hours after you erected it. Sadly, a storm blew it into the swamps surrounding the Martini Lakes.
DeleteIt just looks hot and muggy from the pictures and cast of the sun.
ReplyDeleteAll weekend long, people were getting hid with thunderstorms but we got ZIP !!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHere in the upstate of SC, we got about an inch and a half of rain this morning. Only got three hours of work at the golf course. Looks like we have at least a 50% chance of rain every day this week. Going to play havoc with my golf plans through the week. I usually play Wed, Fri and Sundays.
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