Now don’t mind me, I am appreciative that no droughts have kicked up here just yet. We’ve had years where the water table gets real low real early into June, and all summer long until September rolls around. This year is a bit more wet than that one, as far as I recall. Green grass and very leafy trees all say thank you! Sir. As always I need to wait for the Lilacs to bloom with their patented aroma before I can go trimming them back. I’m prone to cutting away the low lying branches to try and stop skunks from hiding in them. And to dissuade other things like rodents and rabbits from taking up residence on the property. I did however triple check that I could trim back our hedge row earlier in the season to allow more light to make it down into the garden beds below. That seems to have gone ok. Last year I did the top 6-8 ft, but cutting them off, as the heavy snow & ice caused them to bend over, and lean down significantly. Now I’m just trying to contain the width a bit more. Next year, or the year after, I’ll go back and line up the tops once more. I like to alternate so I don’t cut too much off any one tree at any one time.
Tuesday is here. The rains are plentiful. Thunderstorms have started to make themselves known. I mean we had a weird one in February. A thunder and lightening with heavy rain fall storm in February. It was odd. Very, very strange. Not a usual occurrence around these parts during the winter atleast. We will soon come up on the anniversary of the Djericho storm, leading edge tornado that whisked through from Windsor to Montreal. 800 kilometers of savage winds and blown down trees, rooves, sheds, and barns. It was wild. Followed by a 26 hour long power outage.
Reminded me of that summer long ago, like 2001/2002 where that New York power grid went down and a huge portion of Ontario went full black out because of it. I remember waiting for my one brother whom was down town to drive back to the shop in his DZ water truck. Took him hours. Every intersection a four way stop. Our drive home took forever aswell. Into the black with no street lights, no traffic lights, no nothing. The skies that night must have been something else with no light pollution to interfere. It was hot too, so no AC. Fun times.
I best get these kids off to school. No lunch boxes forgotten on the counter today! Ciao Bella!
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