Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Storms and Cats

We spent part of Saturday getting ready for Hurricane Hillary, a very unusual tropical storm that came on Sunday. We invested in a new permanent rain barrel, which Stace installed.

He and Cora also tried coating the playroom roof again, although we still had leaking around those pesky skylights.
After our hard work, Stace and I met up with Colleen and Rigo at the Queen tribute band at the Concerts in the Park. They were outstanding!

We certainly did get the rain on Sunday! Nearly 6 inches! It's pretty crazy, our average rainfall is 17 inches, and we've had 40 inches this year!

With all our rain collecting, we gathered over 170 gallons of water.
The girls were absolutely thrilled when we got the phone call Sunday evening that school was cancelled for Monday. The district just wasn't sure what kind of damage the facilities had sustained, and it was hard to predict how much damaging wind would occur that night. They were jumping around and dancing, like I hear kids do with snow days.
On Monday, Violet and I enjoyed a nice walk, with Spencer coming with us part of the way.
Speaking of cats, we bought them a new water fountain bowl.
Naughty boy!!

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