Hello! No Fridays Footprints today! We went out to the movies tonight (Independence Day 2 because who doesn’t like seeing a war with Aliens??) and we were home preeeeetty late!!
Apparently we are due for torrential rain and wind, so we sorted a few things out today just in case the weather forecast got it right
Jeff dragged the outdoor weather curtain from the shed, we duct-taped the dodgy bits and put it back up
We only have one panel, but by putting it here, it stops the wind blowing the rain in the back door. Its nice to have a little dry buffer zone during the wilder days! Also the boots don’t get saturated!!
The wood in the far back corner is ok usually, but we can now pull the wheelbarrow back behind the curtain to keep that mostly dry too.
It really wasn’t that nice of a day. Pip was being annoying. He really wasn’t sure if he wanted in or out! If he was left in he howled. So I finally dragged him out and hooked him up to his lead. He promptly ran to the garden for a wee, then came back, sat at the door with his paw up looking pathetic. Back inside to bed he went!
We were not keen on the possibility of having all those stones and path dirt being washed back down the path, so we made our own slip & slide covered up the path with tarps and tried to make a guide for any water gushing down to head across the path and straight to the tank area.
I save my bread flour bags and thought they might come in handy as sandbags!
Hopefully all this will keep any more of our path from ending up in the paddock!
Well… its raining quite heavily now as I type. Nothing like what we had a few weeks back. And the wind hasn’t kicked in as promised as yet!
I suspect tomorrow might be an indoor day!
Its 1.30am so its time for me to go to bed and get a start on my sleep in tomorrow!
Have a fabulous weekend everyone!
Cheers!
Lisa, while the weather you describe isn’t pleasant, it sure would be a break from our 80+ [F] and high humidity that we have here in Upstate NY.
Haven’t been out back to check the veggie garden in a few days due to the heat. Forgot that it was time to protect the yellow daylilies from the deer. Over half the stalks are just that – stalks. No lovely delicate and wonderful smelling daylilies this year. The deer walked right by my Kwanzo [sp?] ones. ARG!
Didn’t know that flour was still sold in cloth bags! Here in the states, its been paper containers for a long long time. Same with sugar.
Stay dry, Elizabeth
Hi!! The humidity sounds so wearing! Our summers have a dry heat so its a lot more bearable I think!
Oh no re – daylilies! 🙁 You’ll have lovely fat happy deer tho! How disappointing.
I was only just looking at my newly sprouting daylilies yesterday(an inch high) and looking forward to them popping out again later this year!
Yes – I love the cloth bags! Its a smaller company and if you buy the 10kg bag it comes in cloth! I have to go ‘all the way’ into Burnie to their supermarket to source it tho. (25 minutes lol) but its pointless buying it in smaller quantities. We have found all sorts of uses for the bags, but sandbags are a first!!
No floods or waterfalls last night!! Oh well! 🙂 Stay cool!
Fingers crossed everything stays in place properly this time!
Pip sure has you wrapped around his little paw. Worth it eh? 😀
So far, so good. Path still in tact, Pip still in charge! 😀