You can invite the amish to live in the burg. They are moving up here in droves. Buying a lot of properties, farms, mountain land. They are everywhere. And it's not a good thing either. These are not your amish of the 1970s.
The last number of years I have 2 areas they each take about 15 min to mow with the garden tractor that just seem to grow more then the rest of the areas that I mow. And if I don't cut them till spring the grass is wooly, high and looks like crap.
I'm still here trying to hold on to Summer, but my efforts might be fruitless. Depression is starting to set in with less daylight, later sunrises, earlier sunsets.
I'm in Virginia at the canceled Blue Ridge Rock Festival. Must have had 2 days of bad storms at home son called said our power is off 12 hours so far with no estimate of when it's getting restored. Lots of trees down.
I think with this current heatwave had it occurred in July it would have been worse. The days are longer. Giving it a much better chance to heat up (with dry ground of course) I think temps would have been 5 degrees higher then in September. But of course what do I know.