And Then It Rained.

8-15-16 VERMONT: We had a rainy weekend with a total of two inches that got everything soaked. There was no runoff because the ground sopped it all up. There was another shower a few nights back, the Perseid Meteor shower. I was out on the deck for about fifteen minutes and saw eight shooting stars, three of them dramatic.

The repair work on the house continues. I replaced two deck posts on Sunday, and repaired the bottoms of two exterior doors Friday. Today I started the last section of the old mudroom back door. New things keep coming up. Scott is doing the repair of the deck drainage. The runoff from the roof and deck washed out a big hole under the deck. He is rebuilding the top of the wall below the deck and re-grading and filling the holes with gravel.

Val, Lucy and Maggie arrived tonight as the first stop on a college tour going to UVM and McGill in Montreal. They leave for Burlington in the morning.

New blooms: white star clematis.


Perhaps a Pearl Cresent working the pasture mint. We used to have dozens of Monarchs at this time of summer but none this season. I might have seen one on the road last week.

Morning mist after a rainy day.

The corn is ready. We had them for lunch and dinner today.