Well Winter was mild and dry, Spring was mild and dry and Summer has been in triple digits, very dry and hot, both day and night. What will Fall bring?This summer has been alot hot and humid with no rain or usual thunderstorms. Meteorologist are calling this the hottest, most drought ridden on record. I knew when we moved here, winters would be cold, summers hot and humid and we would always be grateful for Fall and Spring
This week we finally got a break in the heat, it was often 98 or 99 degrees, truly a break by about 10 degrees, from what it had been. We have been getting up very early to take the poor neglected pups for a walk. This morning when we got up it was 69 degrees with a breeze. We left at 7:30 for our walk and it was so mild and lovely, we decided to go to the local park instead of the cemetery. It is part of the Rails to Trails Conservancy . It is wonderful, they have taken old and abandoned rail way corridors and turned them into Parks and Trails for everyone to enjoy. Ours is the Frisco Green way between Webb City and Joplin. Today it was lovely.
The dogs were stopping to sniff everything along the trail. Totem thought the fallen hedge apples were tennis balls. Since our walk I've been reading them. They are considered a natural pesticide but not poisonous to mammals, I am going to get some and try it out. I think they would be interesting in arrangements as well. Some of them seemed to have been eaten by wild animals.
