The forecast for today was sunny. Where? Must be someplace else. Tomorrow which is Memorial day is to be a washout. Good in a way. It will tamp down excessive celebration and give us a quiet day.
I have put off mowing the lawn I am responsible for at the farm through 'no mow May' because of the weather and other things but it didn''t rain yesterday so I figured today was about as good as it would get. I was hydroplaning over parts of it. But now it is raining again. At least I minimized the tick play ground.
My dad and grandpa used a disk harrow quite often, especially in the fall. It is a method of chopping up old crop residue, like left-over corn stalks, etc. and turning it under the topsoil. Also used to incorporate lime into the soil. I'm not aware of any erosion from it but they were farming in the piney woods of south GA so not a lot of wind sweeping down the plains.
Wind erosion is the biggest downside of fall ground tillage, but water erosion can be factor in some places. It does compost the plant debris over winter.
Just had a severe thunderstorm pass through which knocked out the power for a few seconds. Also cool off from the 80s to mid 60s.
This guy was driving like a bat out of hell and the dust clouds were overwhelming with no wind. It was horrible.
We got severe thunderstorm watches just west of me. Have had several forecasted rainy days, none of them have materialized.
The thunderstorms have materialized. Severe Warning for me for the next hour or so, then Severe Watch for the next 2 hours. The upside is that it might cause this %#*&^@ whippoorwill to go hunker down somewhere. The daggone thing hangs outside my living room window until I go to bed, then it relocates by my bedroom window to keep me company until 4AM. I don't wish it harm (they are "A Species of Concern"), but I kind do.
Midwest Mafia? I think there's a Federal Migratory Bird Act or something like that protecting everything but invasive species (sparrows & starlings?) My only course of action might be to get a cat and then feign remorse. Either that or I could just endure until it moves on. I had one around here once before...that was a couple of years ago. I just wonder what in the heck it's looking for, and why it hasn't given up and moved on.