It's ok, we don't need the rain and as wet as the ground is we sure don't need the wind bringing down trees. A gentle transit through tropical storm season won't be a bad thing.
A big rain would be a disaster right now with everything so saturated. I can appreciate extremes more than most but flooding and water damage sux.
I realize that stomping lanternflies is useless at this point but damn they're annoying. It's just kind of therapeutic.
I'm getting tired of stomping those things. I haven't seen them in my yard yet but they are just a few miles south of me. They were all over the beach at Jones Beach when I was there a few days ago. Yuck.
We finished grilling and drinking beer around 9,when I let the dogs out around 3am it was soaked and I hadn't put the grill cover on or covered the chairs. Now the chairs are a mess with squashed and soggy berries from the chokecherry tree over them
The skeeters and other assorted stinging, biting little bastids have been horrible. I gave up and mostly wear jeans, socks and shoes even when it's really warm because I hate being itchy when I'm driving and I spend a ton of time behind the wheel.
That's a pretty cool storm going on in WNY and points west and north.
Absolutely beautiful here now, ~75° with a light breeze and 50% humidity with deep blue skies.
It's black and grey with big cloud tops just to my N and W, overhead is the mixing zone and to my E it's clear and blue skies. It's been like this for about a half hour now.