Aurora's Blog

Last evening while sitting outside, I saw the vanguard flyer of the soon to be squadrons of the large dragonflies that patrol my yard and the neighbors' hunting mosquitos and other small insects. They are so much fun to watch. Amazing that an insect that is about 6 inches long with a wingspan even larger can fly so fast and be so graceful.

This evening I watched a bat join the as yet lone dragonfly on patrol. I am always happy to see the bats out feeding and love to watchthem flit around too.

 Happy hunting to you both, I appreciate the dent you make in the mosquito population :)

Thanks to an evening thunderstorm I was able to make a huge dent on the bermuda grass in the daylilly bed, in addition to all the other beds I weeded earlier in the day. Since the ground is so moist many of the roots just slid right out making it so much easier. Maybe tomorrow I'll get to work clearing out the weeds to prepare the new beds....

I must say, that storm was pretty impressive to watch come in. The western sky turned such a dark, ominous gray. Then the wind picked up!!! It was blowing dirt and grit and all sorts of other stuff all over. At first I thought it was a tornado and was about to yell for the kids to get in the bathroom (we don't have a basement). Other than that, the storm wasn't bad at all and we received a nice steady rain for about an hour.  Needless to say, I didn't get the mowing done because it was raining pretty hard when Steve got home. Tomorrow it will really need it!