Yeah, we had us a little storm last night, but fortunately it didn't produce any tornadoes. At least not up here, despite what my coworkers have said. There were some tornado warned storms down south, almost to the Louisiana border, but what we had here is called a wake low.
That's when a very low pressure area forms in the wake of a storm system, and it can cause strong winds. And that's probably way more than you ever wanted to know, but hey, I gotta be me.
Anyway, I haven't heard of any significant damage in this area, but I did see some smaller tree branches down and some garbage cans tumped over on my way to work this morning.
By the way, I'm still going in at 4:00 AM so expect blogging to be sporadic and posts to be brief for a while. They've posted that the lines are going to be off this weekend, but we'll have to wait and see if component areas will be working. Right now, our numbers don't look too good, but how can we braze anything if we never have parts?
After work, I came home and cut the first little bunch of orange mint and hung it up to dry.
Last year, I gave all I had to Cody and Brennan, but this year, I want to save some to maybe make some tea once it cools off a bit. And my peppermint, too. Save it for tea. And whatever the mint was that my neighbor gave me when I first moved in. I think it's spearmint, but I'm not 100% sure.
Once I get my raised beds in place, and have moved my stuff from the planters into them, I might dig up some of that spearmint and put it in there. In the planter, I mean. Right now, it's growing wild in my yard. I'd thought to put a little herb garden right beside my back door, so that's where I'd planted it, but I quickly realized that space wasn't nearly big enough for all of the herbs I want to grow.
That's why I had the guy fence in that section on the West side of my house. It gets good sun and will make a fine garden spot.
One thing, you may remember I had terrible issues with squirrels digging in my planters last year. Or birds. Or the cat. I don't really know what it was, but something was digging my beds up. I've been trying to think of something I can do to stop that this year, other than just piling bricks up in the planters.
I was looking at something like this:
Maybe not this exact product, but something similar. Maybe without the spikes, which according to the reviews, don't do much to deter cats anyway, but the mesh would provide a barrier against critters digging things up. They had some stuff at Walmart that I almost got last week. It was a plastic diamond mesh, kind of similar to chicken wire. If they still have it, I might pick up a roll this Friday when I go do my shopping.
If we're off Saturday, I might run up to Batesville and see what they have at Lowe's. I know I keep saying that, but one of these days, I'm going to mean it!
But for now, I reckon I need to head for bed. I know it's early, but then 2:45 comes mighty early, too.
Goodnight.
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