Zoo Talk: Pleasant weather

It's another lovely day here. Tolerable heat and some nice breezes make the day more comfortable. There is still a chance of rain this evening, but the fronts that have made their way through our fair state have done so much good. We've had a lot of rainfall. The last one over half filled a 2 gallon bucket that was sitting outside in the yard. I don't know how that translates in inches, since I don't have a rain gauge but it sure made my garden plots look better!

The storms did make a lot of leaves and small limbs hit the ground. I figure after all the heat and drought conditions, they were the result of weakened trees. I'll go outside in a day or two and pick it all up then toss the leaves into the compost bin and the limbs into the woods.

If it stays on the cooler side (90 degrees or so), I can get outside and finish up other projects, too, such as building a storage shed/feed room. Right now, I'm having to keep poultry and rabbit feed in the house to protect it from the elements.

I'm wanting to develop some rock-edged beds around the back of the house where there's a considerable slope. That means cutting down some scrub bushes and trees to open the area up more and hauling rocks, which we have plenty of, back there and stacking them. No way I want to do that when it's 100 degrees out!

My inspiration for that area comes from a house next to the river over near the town where the grape festival was held. Every time we've gone by that house, I've looked at their back yard where the people have put in terraced gardens, white picket fences, and yard ornaments on the slope leading to the river. It's a lovely place even though it's small and I can just imagine my back area looking something like that.