Rain

Not much going on lately, except RAIN! We've gotten around 8 inches so far, depending on what weather service you look at - some have us around 12 inches! That's nothing compared to Thomasville, GA, who got over 27 inches this week. That's a lot of water.


The rain really ruined my plans to do a lot of outdoor work, including cutting the grass. Since we don't have a lawnmover yet, we are having to borrow people's movers. With the constant rain I wasn't able to get a lawnmover over here, which didn't really matter because the grass stayed too wet to cut anyway. I did find time to murder our front bushes, though.


The problem was that the previous owners had let them get way to big and way to close to the house. They were over 8 feet tall - were being the key word. I was trying to hang the shutter that fell off the house. Since the bushes were so close, I had to cut them back. As I was cutting them back, some of the top areas had to be cut down. Not bad, since we wanted to trim them down as well, right? However, it was a big problem because of how the bushes grows. The top 8 inches or so is leaves that you see and the rest is the branch. If you want to cut it down more than 8 inches, which we did, you're stuck cutting the shrub at the branch and left with just an empty, decapitated branch. So, the top and back of the bushes are skeleton bushes. They are at least the right height now, but they sure look ugly (and you know it's bad if I'm saying they look bad.) Whenever the rain stops, I'll more than likely complete the trimming process and get rid of all the leaves. The good thing is that we didn't like them anyway (sticker bushes) and had planned to replace them. To our luck, the ideal planting season for shrubs is early fall. So, we're currently scouting different types of shrubs and plants to put there. I'll keep you updated on what we chose and when we plant, which will probably be early September.


Switching gears, the GEORGIA TECH FOOTBALL SEASON IS LESS THAN 2 DAYS AWAY! How awesome is that?!?!?! I'm excited for the upcoming season, but sad that the only way to watch the game is on ESPN 360.com, which my cable company doesn't carry. I am contemplating going to the game, but the fact that it is late Thursday night is not good for having to go to work Friday. We'll see what happens with that.


As I write this, we are having another downpour and strong winds. Throughout the day there have been multiple tornado watches/warnings and some confirmed touchdowns in and around the area. Hopefully everything blows over and there is no major damage like the last time tornadoes came through the area.


That's all for now.