Aug 15

Last week was simply too hot and humid to think about anything, other than just getting as much of the to-do list done as possible. And, even that was difficult.

The weather has broke now though, and I'm looking forward to a much more pleasant week!

Looks like I'm two weeks behind on Pizza Night updates.... August 5th was another record-breaker! 160 pizzas! I still can hardly believe it. A&K were here. They arrived just before 8:00 he said, and they could see how crowded it was, so they ordered right away. Each pizza is numbered, so a quick check of the last pizza out of the oven, subtracted from your order number gives you how many are in line ahead of you. Times that by the 2 minutes to cook each pizza, and you've got your wait time. They got their pizza at 10:00. I heard some people arrived after they did, but decided not to wait and went somewhere else.

There wasn't live music, but it had been a nice day. And, maybe being a few weeks after 4th of July, and a few weeks before Labor Day was a factor...people looking for something to do. We've given up trying to figure out WHY people come when they do!

Speaking of WHY.... Even with the weather forecasters carrying on about the heat index of over 100º last Thursday, the 12th, we still had 60 pizzas. I know. By comparison, that's pretty minor, but I can't imagine wanting, on a day like that, to be just hanging out, outside, eating a hot pizza. Ugh. Oh well. To each his own, right?

A big storm came through early Friday morning. I first heard the rumblings of the thunder a little after 3:00 a.m. Woke up a few times as the storm crashed through, and when I got up at 6:00, it was starting to let up a little. We got 5-1/2" of rain!

Through the pasture is a gully, or waterway, they purposely "sculpted" I guess is the best word. It runs from one end of the property to the other, with the purpose of diverting excess rainfall. And, yes, it works! Friday morning outside my door, was a river. All the animals were safe, but some of the fencing posts were being overtaken. We unplugged the fence and moved the ones we could get to. There's a lot of branches and other debris laying around the area. Also, the flour mill next door is in the process of adding a warehouse, so there is a large section of their property that isn't graded. With all the water rushing toward the end of the shared driveway and out to the road, some of the farm's section of the drive was washed up pretty bad. But overall, minimal damage.

I stayed on the farm this weekend, and had a couple nice quiet days. (H and her boys went to a cousin's lake place for a couple days.) I'm thinking of going home next weekend. And looking forward to our annual vacation to Madeline Island over Labor Day. Then, we'll be full into September, and I imagine here on the farm we'll start thinking about fall crops and frost dates. Wow.