Friday, August 15, 2008

Autumn here already?

We, here in Southeast Alaska, had about two weeks of summer this year -- the first one in May and another one just last week. But for much of this week, the weather has been a combination of rain, sometimes heavy, and some breezy winds.

So as the rest of the country seems to bake in high heat (I'm looking at today's excessive heat warnings in the Portland area...) we seem to be heading into autumn already.

The rains have eased up, and the sun even came through a bit yesterday. The lawn in back was over a week overdue for mowing. It was quite a bit of work. Overgrown grass and manual reel mowers don't go together too well. It's much easier to maintain at the right length, but with the week away at camp and the week prior being quite busy with getting ready for campmeeting, I simply didn't have the time to go out and mow. And so I paid for it today. There were several pounds of fresh, deer droppings...

That about sums up life this week.

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