Ok, I woke up to a tornado warning blaring on the weather radio at 6:00 this morning. In upstate NY. WTF!? Poured rain overnight. Again. Flood watches and flood warnings. The weather here has gone nuts!! (I'm glad I kept the weather alarm radio and didn't junk it before moving to the UK, after all!) This is two years in a row when it didn't rain when it should have, I've been informed by old-timers, and then later it just poured. Of course, the amount of rain is a lot worse this year than last. I'm just thankful I decided against Vermont, which was the other option when we were re-settling.
I just stepped out on the balcony and it is in the 80Fs with a humidity of 87%. That pretty much guarantees more storms later in the day.
I had/have a large crop of garlic that is at the stage where summer should be hot and dry. I should be lifting the garlic and hanging it to dry the rest of the way. I gave up yesterday and forked most of it up out of the mud, brought it home, tried to get as much mud off it as I could, trimmed down the leaves and roots a little bit, have it laying around on cardboard all over my dining room and back balcony. I am using portable fans to try to get it dry enough that it won't rot before it cures. I still have quite a bit to get in, but nowhere to put it until this batch dries off a bit. My house reeks of garlic. That could be worse (like the downstairs neighbors' nasty diaper laundry), but still....
And, of course, with all the standing water comes the mosquitos. I forgot to wear a long-sleeved shirt out there last evening. (In the "real feel" 95F temp with humidity not far under that number!) and was apparently the buffet-of-the-week for the bugs. Thankfully I have hydrocortisone lotion in the house. I am so, so, so ITCHY!
aaargh! I am also taking loratadine and that is helping a little bit.
[I guess I must have missed the plague of frogs and the water turning red....
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