Five days of rain this week, including a couple of unseasonally cool days with daytime high temps staying in the 40s, made it feel more like April than the last week of May. Weekly total precip was 1.44", another period lessening the dry conditions we've been in for some time now. Very windy conditions came with yesterday's system, TV news showed multiple locations with extensive tree damage and loss of power.
Temperatures dropped dramatically these past couple of days, a few spots in northern Worcester county actually had a little snow (it melted on contact). Strong winds created wind chills into the 30s. I held off on putting the AC units in the windows and planting the annuals in the window boxes and planters; that proved to be a good idea.
With June coming tomorrow, it's time to shift to more summer-like chores, planting the annuals, cleaning up the leftover weedy spots the birds have been actively using, and finally mowing the lawn (the No Mow May thing). The weather forecast for the week suggest it's a good time to get that stuff going...
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