Drenched Anew Every Day.

5-30-19 SHORT HILLS: We got back here on Tuesday, and there was an inch of rain in the gauge. Since then, we have 4.2 additional inches in three days—that’s a month’s worth of rain. Everything is soggy and dripping, there has been flash flooding locally, there was a tornado in a nearby county, and the lightning has had Kaley in a nightly panic in spite of her BCD medication.

Needless to say, the yard is green and lush, and it’s all growing before our eyes, the good stuff and the weeds.

This afternoon I planted that chestnut tree that I mentioned a few weeks ago. The one that I moved from an endangered spot, but traumatized it getting it out of a root bound site. I put it in a bucket of water with rooting hormone, and it did grow several hair-like new roots. Now it’s in the ground, treated with more rooting hormone, near another chestnut that will, hopefully, act like an uncle to the sapling.

New blooms: mock orange, English holly, roses.


A pair of pix from the morning we left VT for NJ.