What a return trip from Michigan! Apparently while I was away, the middle Midwest was inundated with rain. I plotted my trip, and set off towards home...normally only a 17 hour trip (ex truck driver-17 hours is a short trip). The rain had flooded areas, and it had closed major parts of my route. The problem with enjoying XM radio, and a GPS is they don't tell you ahead of time that parts of your road are closed. In the old days of FM radio, yes you had to keep searching for a new station, but you always had the local stations which gave you local information-road closures and weather. The trip home ended up being a 20 hour ordeal. The rain also caused havoc with my internet signal, the last two hours I had none, which meant no GPS! I found several back roads in Oklahoma I did not know existed. ;-) Even with a slightly flooded road in front of the house, and a slip and slide up the drive, I was never so glad to see home!
Gardening is my life at this point. Every morning before it gets too hot, I am up and out digging up long overgrown parts to become more garden space. I had worried that I was not seeing earthworms I dug. Earthworms tell me my soil is not totally dead. Finally I hit a section today that was chock full of earthworms. I scooped up a handful, and placed them in the middle of the garden where I had earlier cultivated so the soil is nice and loose. They quickly disappeared into the soil, and I hope they are happy there.
While I was gone there was some bug damage. One of the old-timers in my area tells me I waited too long to get a good garden this year and will be fighting bugs and bug damage all summer now. That may be true, but those bugs don't know I am a quality opponent!
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