I gave my Terlingua rock rake a good work out along with my shovel. The shovel I use is not the traditional type but rectangular...I am able to clear a larger area to free it from weeds and prickly plants (some of them).
Yesterday I started out early...I managed to clear a path so I can drag the tree limbs to the curb without having to drag them to the main gate. I spent most of the morning doing that and then raking the debris into piles.
Needless to say, I was beat last night and actually went to bed early and slept soundly. We are expecting rains and wind this weekend so I needed to bag more yard debris. I was at it by 7:10 a.m. for the second day in a row beat the school bus that comes to deliver breakfast for school-age children and I was still at it when it came back with lunch.
The southern part is where most of the mature, as well as now two-year-old baby mesquites, are more prevalent. When we had the hail storm earlier this year a lot of limbs fell as well as twigs. After I filled my second 55-gallon trash bag I realized that I needed to have used contractor bags because the twigs poked holes all over them.
I then moved to the area by the garage where I cleared and raked cactus and older leaves. All those trees will have to be cut as the very hot past three summers along with an ant infestation have managed to kill them.
I do not know if it is because today is the last day that I am able to use the old blogger format even though they said it would still be available for a limited time but it is only allowing me to upload one picture at a time and it is taking me forever. Now several of my pictures do not appear in my picture folder and this computer has slowed to a crawl.............grrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
I was disappointed that the 10:00 p.m. news showed that the storm that was headed for Del Rio had bypassed us and was headed to Brackettville instead. I could hear the rumblings but that was about it.
We had a low of 79 a high of 101 with a heat index of 107 degrees.
As I am typing this it is 1:14 a.m CSD and all of a sudden it is raining not hard but raining nonetheless. :-)
Good night. May you all have Terlingua Dreams.
Aunty Acid Saying of the Day
