I haven't seen any fireflies. Not since it firstbegan to get warm not hot in the evening. Now it is HOT from noonish till evening.
Mornings are cooler and lovely pretty much of the time. That is not how it was in May & June. Then it was blistering all day & night.
Now I turn the fans down for I wake up feeling too cool. In May & June I was hot around the clock.
Thankfully the Humidity is lower thenit has been all summer. More like a slightly coolish 75 during which I reach for a thin cover after turning down or off most of the fans and the ACs.
I end up turning the ACs and fans on in the morning about 5:30am or 6am. It's is lmost lovely outside for a bit, Charlie goes off leash and walks more then races. We were out at noon and came in about 12:30pm. Standing in the sunlight is brutal,,, but Thank God for all my TALL Oaks, Cedar trees, etc and huge bushes that shade the front of the house untill 2, 3 or 4pm. Thse are the house that heat my bedroom and dining room UP.
We go out again in 3ish and at 5ish. Charlie does his business and then we go inside and sleep or I watch DVDs and Charlie sleeps.
I finally received my 10 lbs of peanuts in their shells. My new birdseed is not totally accepted by everyone yet. But they are eating more of it. There are a few mice that love the nuts and the seed I feed the birds. There are a couple of rats as well. So far no problems. I jsut don't want the snake to return.
The Bluejays are early risers and are first to the Peanut bowls. Squirrels are second. Then the Doves and all the rest of the big birds show up.
I still have that small Black Bird & It's mate the gray. Swallows etc flock in the driveway. The Inca Doves are mid day and afternoon driveway eaters. I haven't seen the Vultures soaring till late afternoons. I did see a large Hawk that zoomed down the driveway so quickly I only saw it's head before it disappeared. Huge!
Most of the grasses are dying off. Some of the shade plants are hanging in there. Weeds are fading and dying. The China Berry tree's leaves are turning yellow and falling off.
Flies are swamping my Hummer feeders no matter where I move them. ARRGH!!!
I have found few of the poisoiness red Mushrooms and use to plastic bag to scoop them up - I tie it off and put them in the trash.
Tons of ants on the hummer feeders so I have to clean they every few days.
Spider webs are all over the front door and back weaving webs from the porch lights YUCK! have only seed the bright yellow and the bkacl butterflies. Everything else seems ot be hiding under ground.
Deer are around but the babies are grown up and not where CHarlie can see them so often. In afternoons they are gone elsewhere.
Well that's it for here. No Roadrunner this year, or Turtles - haven't seen one of them for a number of years.
Less Squirrels either. My two or three black craws fly to the city northwest of here every morning and call out as theydo. I love watching and hearing them.'
The Vultures fly in the afternoons.
My one Hawk not sure which one - but it circles and calls every morning & afternoon. If I am lucky I can see it not just hear it. Lovely call.
No Fire Flies at night. Darn it.
Oh well. THe house is cool still untill the sunif overhead then it cooks my house. I have drapes and curtains closed and extra coverings in the west windows. The house cooks a little from 2pm to 5pm and starts to cool (HA!) off a bit. It takes till 8 pm to start to cool sorta though the sunis now more to the south which helps it fall behind the trees in A's yard. They are much taller and had to my tree coverage.
Ok Off to eat something. Be safe stay cool.
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