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This is looking to be lame in the end IMBY. poo.

I never like being on the southern edge of any meso discussion…and the orientation and movement on radar isn’t changing that feeling. Picked up a quick 0.15” yesterday and would be happy with some good mom-stormy rains today.

That's awesome. I've been thinking about how I might be able to organize a community garden under the overhead power lines that run along one side of our neighborhood, but the issue would be access to water. I love the idea in theory, but if it didn't rain regularly and enough, then it probably wouldn't work so well!

Hoping those hold together/expand and make their way to your SE.

Nice harvest! And those beds look like they get a TON of sun! Is that a community garden?

We'll see if something fires along that boundary heading south and/or that cell in western PG/Charles Counties in MD extends a bit west as it meanders north.

Lots of boundaries flying around now. Let's see if new storms fire along them and/or as they collide.

I'm downtown right now but watching the weather at home. Unless something fires to the south, these may have initiated a little too far north for MBY to cash in at all today.

Lasted maybe 10 minutes and got about 0.1". Kind of impressive for being on the *very* edge of the cell.

And now I'm literally *just* on the west side of that appendage and it's dumping. I can actually see the breaks in the clouds looking to the NW! We'll see how long this lasts!

Wow. That's some serious sky piss! I was just about to say that the cell is reaching back towards me - can't be more than a couple miles away now. Need that to continue!

Big outflow gust just came through here. I think we're going to miss out on this one.

Yup. MN must be getting hammered right now.

Damn...that Fairfax County-Arlington-DC cell is so close, yet so far away.

I definitely hear you on that. We haven't planned a summer vacation before August since my older daughter started as an 8&U three years ago, and I can't see that changing any time soon! We have a few families who have taken vacations during the season in the past couple years, and we have other kids who aren't going to be here for certain weekends due to other commitments. It's definitely frustrating, but a team our size doesn't have the luxury of turning away swimmers who might be missing meets. As long as the families tell us early on that their schedules are packed and we know which dates the kids are/aren't around, we can work around it. One of the families whose kids have missed lots of meets in the last two years is actually that of a former Team Rep and our current DC. They ran it by us, and even though we were disappointed that we wouldn't have them available to swim for more than half the meets, we appreciated their being up front about it. My co-Rep and I make a half-joking announcement at the May parents' meeting that we fully expect that everyone planned their vacations starting in August, and honestly most do. We just get the occasional family that does what they're going to do, so we just accept it and move on!

I had a feeling I knew which team you were…and I was right! Very cool ending for you guys! Pretty amazing when a meet comes down to close relays, and it looks like you guys came out on top. Congrats! We were surprised by how well our opponents swam yesterday. By the same token, we were a little off our own game, so we were only +2 going into relays. There were a few swing relays, one of which (13-14 boys) we weren’t sure would go our way but did, and that set us up for a finish we were confident would go our way. In the end, our girls mixed age pulled out a very surprising win without one of our star swimmers, which was a great way for us to win that meet. 3-0 start with our two toughest meets to come. We’re likely missing a few key swimmers for those, so we don’t have huge expectations, but ending 3-2 and tying for second in Relay Carnival after going up a division would be huge for us!

Just harvested 14 healthy heads of garlic. A few were separating already, so I'll use those first, but the rest are in really good shape (two heads were massive)! Far cry from last year, when I only harvested a couple runty heads, with the rest basically having rotted in the ground. Seed garlic was local, organic Music garlic heads bought from Wegman's in the fall. No Irish Spring needed.

I heard LWX radar is back online. Anyone else?

Yeah. It gets hot and it gets humid, but it's not that bad. lol

That's great to hear! It's such a fun meet, and the kids go absolutely berserk over it! For me, it was really comfortable down on the deck, which made it that much more enjoyable. We swam really well and the coaches were THRILLED with how it went. We didn't have big expectations going in, but we ended up tying for second (12 points off first). The best part about it was that we had no DQs outside of a false start in the 15-18 girls relay in which would have come in near last anyway (I *think* she rocked on the start). Far cry from us going into the season not sure if we'd even have any 8&U relays!

Of course there are!

NVSL Relay Carnivals tonight. One of the most fun nights of the season!

It's been an unreal couple months, to be honest. You know it's been an easy summer so far when it hits 87 with some humidity and folks are melting.

1.3" at the closest CoCoRaHs that has reported yesterday's rainfall. That puts MBY over 3" for the last week, despite completely whiffing on Monday.

Abd the skies then opened up.