Thursday, June 4, 2015

Thankful Thursdays: Summer Comes and Goes

Weather Forecast 6 4 15


Today makes me want to wax poetic about sunny skies and warm afternoons in June. Instead, I am just thankful that the incoming thunderstorm and deluge of rain held off until I finished my outdoor tasks. Instead of soaking down the garden spot to plant the corn, peppers, and squash, I'll let Mother Nature do the job. 

Black upon grey upon white cloud balloons toss, soar and drift in the sky. The wind blows hard enough to rattle the windows, sway the trees, and drop the temperature. We've postponed putting the large swamp cooler in the front room window until the weather stabilizes. It doesn''t appear it will be needed for the rest of the week!




While I was cleaning up some of the large tumbleweeds and plastic bags brought in by last week's storm, I noticed the quail heading for their respective shelters under the huge juniper shrubs. I know they're thankful I've kept the branches low so they have a hidey-hole to crawl beneath for protection from predators, rain, hail, and snow. It makes a doggoned good sunshade, too.


It's supposed to get cold this evening!                                                                                                                             












The temperature is expected to drop to 47 degrees F tonight. I'm thankful I haven't packed all the warm blankets away yet.

But not this cold, anyway :)

Thunderstorms cut computer time short, but I'm glad they are holding off for now.

Has the weather changed your daily routine or special plans this summer?

18 comments:

  1. It has been so cold here in Boston the past 3 days, I actually turned on the heat. THAT cold.

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  2. We live in the south, so we pretty much plan everything around thunderstorms this time of year.

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  3. I am in Florida so we plan outside stuff in the morning because of the rain and the heat. We are expecting afternoon showers through the weekend.

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  4. The weather has been pretty good here this summer. It's a little cooler than usual, but not by much.

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  5. Rain definitely gets in the way of our plans in Florida. It's been pretty good lately.

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  6. Storms and heat does change things for us. Sill love summer.

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  7. Our weather here in Las Vegas has been wonky as well. We are usually swimming as much as possible by this time of the year but have yet to step foot in the pool.

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  8. Our summer has been cold and rainy so far. The rain has backed off until evenings only now which is better! Tonight we are under a tornado watch and flash flood watch! So unpredictable.

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  9. The weather has been very unpredictable here. Ii have had to have the air conditioning on in the daytime and the heat on at night.

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  10. It is definitely summer here in Houston. It was 104 in my car a couple of days ago

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  11. We live in California and the weather has been quite nice, actually.

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  12. Our weather in Toronto has been awful. Not sure where spring is but hoping it shows up sometime soon. The few hot days we had was such a tease! - jeanine

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  13. Our weather goes up and down so I always have blankets handy. We do love to sit in the garage when there's a thunderstorm

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  14. Our weather is all over the place. Just when I think summer is going to peak out, its all cold and wet again. Hopefully that doesn't mean that by August MI is going to hit record 100 degree weather.

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  15. 47 is cold! We've had a lot of rain lately, which has canceled or postponed various sports that my boys play.

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  16. We had a sudden return to below 50 temps after a week of 80 degrees, which was a sharp contrast. Thankfully, we're back to sunny skies for our short Chicago summers.

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  17. This will be our first summer in eastern GA. Not looking forward to the nutty humidity.

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  18. It is raining like crazy today. Rain always forces me to change or cancel plans!

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