@NH Homesteader that's awesome!
@Britesea I actually did have a little girl come up to me as she was walking out of the chick area and said she was going to become a vegetarian, which I told her that was totally fine if she wanted to do that. It was really cute.
Well, we had some steamy sticky days, and then finally got some rain. If yall have been paying attention to any news, we've been in the news again for epic floods. The area south of us by about an hour was flooded again, after receiving the same type of flooding two years ago in what was called, then, a "thousand year flood." Well, it ends up looking like BS when it happens again 2 years later. Some of these businesses that are washed out a second time JUST reopened. And most of them are tiny businesses owned by people just like you and me that struggled to rebuild and survive for the year+ without the income. And now it's all gone again. If you want to see local encounters, just search #ECStrong on FB and you'll find lots of videos and photos from people who are there. My heart breaks for them and the beautiful historic town that the flooding ripped through.
Thankfully, we're way up on a hill, and we didn't receive near as much rain as they did. There are varying reports, but most of them agree on 7-10" in about 2 hours worth of time. Nobody can handle that kind of water, let alone when the town ends up being a funnel to the river because of poor development up hill. It's horrifying.
It's brought the pollen count back down again which makes me happy. I'm hoping that we're over most of it for the year, but I guess we'll see. It's a little early to be done with it, but we haven't had torrential rains like these in a spring that I can remember. It's been a strange spring.
We ended up hanging out with our neighbors 2 doors down quite a bit this weekend, which was fun. They're very cool people and are excited to meet others that they can spend time with in the area. They haven't lived here that long, and with a kiddo that's only 2 1/2 and jobs, and a house that needs lots of work they haven't met anyone around to do fun things with. We really like them, and I think we'll be able to share some resources and things, as well as help, which should be really cool. They also have a young newfoundland who is adorable even if she is the slobberiest dog EVER. I think I'll end up dog sitting for them when they go away in August, which should be interesting. Hopefully by then she'll listen to me and won't get so excited when I go see her and slobber all over everything.
Otherwise, not much is happening. Still no a/c. The bad thing about no a/c is that it doesn't make me very motivated to do much of anything because it's so hot when I get home that I just don't feel like it. We finally cleaned the basement this weekend, which was long overdue, so that's good. I also took all my bulky stuff (and the regular laundry, too) back to GH's house to use her GIANT washer so we could avoid using our own washer since it's about to die, too. Fun times. So every time I go check on the horses I move laundry around... nothing like having a private laundrymat.
That's about all the news from around here. We just keep chugging along.
