The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey August 20, 2017

20 August 2017

Well, we topped out the last four weeks at over 10" of rain (I'll only say 'over' because I really need to re-site my rain gauge out of the wind shadow of the tree that's doubled in size over the last few years). And it looks like August is going to come and go with only 2 or 3 days above 90°F. Weird. Of course, what with excessive rain and relatively mild temperatures, the lawns which should all be brown and dormant at this time of year are growing madly. I had to double-cut the front yard yesterday, and the…

Brian Bilbrey August 13, 2017

13 August 2017

We saw a wonderful play at Annapolis Shakespeare Company on Saturday evening: Alice and the Book of Wonderland. It's a brand new show based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (well, duh, me), adapted by Sally Boyett and Donald Hicken. Laura Rocklyn plays a marvelous Alice. The six remaining cast members: Ian Charles, Bill Dennison, Olivia Ercolano, Brian Keith MacDonald, Jackie Madejski, and Johnny Weisgerber - well, they cover the balance of the 24 characters in the show. Over time, each runs off, stage left, and seemingly moments later appeared stage right in fresh costume and makeup. Holy cow, do…

Brian Bilbrey August 6, 2017

6 August 2017

Well, Marcia's home from Michigan. She went up for the week to visit family, and had fun. Lexi spent the week eyeballing me and asking when Marcia was going to be back. This is that look: Along with doing a bit of remote work each day (and going to the office for a few hours on Tuesday), I got a lot of chores done around the homestead. Garage clean up. Mowing. A couple of days of pressure washing the deck and stamped concrete pad. All-in-all, a fairly productive week. Today we did the shopping, then I roasted coffee and relaxed.

Brian Bilbrey July 30, 2017

30 July 2017

So, in the last eight days, we've had 6" or so of rain in my part of the state. We've had a couple of intense pop-up storms that hovered and dumped huge amounts, along with the other storm lines that the whole state got. And miracle of miracles, it was 58 degrees outside when I woke up this morning. That's unheard of in July in these parts - it was a truly gorgeous day today: low 80's at the peak and but moderate humidity. Lexi was the beneficiary of that, with a couple of long walks to her credit. I…

Brian Bilbrey July 24, 2017

24 July 2017

Not a huge update this week. Work was fine. House cleaning on Saturday, followed by supper guests in the evening, which was lovely. A few more chores on Sunday. About three inches of rain over the weekend, joined by a couple of hours of intense thunder and lightning from just before midnight last night until nearly two. Yay? So I'm a tire mess this morning. Oh well. * * * DoD reported no new casualties in the last week. Ciao!