Impressions of summer
- Wasps - while taking a lead rope off Beetlebaum in the long grass of the driveway I thought I'd stepped back onto a thistle, then I saw what I thought were big black flies on my legs - nope - wasps. Black wasps. Having disturbed their sub-ground nest, they took retribution. Jeepers, a week later my legs still hurt like the blazers!!
- Hot hot heat - on the deck the mercury was saying 35 degrees most days (apart from the three day storm in early January)
- Water - either not enough (we needed to order some water before our visitors arrived before Christmas), or too much (the heavens opened on a walk SWMBO, Jerry and your faithful correspondent took)
- Wind - not that kind, the take-the-sails-down wind that came with the January storm.
- Wetas - the hot/wet/humid combo suits wetas and Jerry, helpfully, brought a few inside to bat around on the floor.
- Opossum - whether climbing on the roof or making horrible noises outside the toilet window whenever I made a nighttime pit stop, it was an unnerving experience
- Rats! I hate rats!! Either in the tool shed, or the old hay by the tractor, ratty came a calling. I buried six in total. Take that!
- Titus Groan novels - keeping company with the creepy ratlike Steerpike during the summer was somehow weirdly appropriate!
Not my favourite season, summer. By a long chalk!
Love and peace - Wozza
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