A recent severe thunderstorm with straight line winds gusting over 70 mph brought down part of an elm tree in our front yard. We knew it was looking a bit rotted in spots, but this proved it needed to be removed. We hired the guy who trimmed up the remodel house's trees back in '17 when we bought the place. He and his two workers climbed all over it to get it down and hauled away in about nine hours over the course of Thursday and Friday.
Overall, the yard is looking really good right now. However, everyone's yard seems to be beautifully green with all of the rain we got in the past month. We received so much water lately that our two scraggly magnolias even produced a few blooms. And the crepe myrtles all over the hill country are producing profusions of colorful flowers for us to enjoy.
It was lovely while it lasted. In anticipation of us entering the annual summer drought, I turned our sprinkler system on this weekend. I got a bit teary eyed over my last water bill that arrived Friday when I saw it was less than $100. That bill will skyrocket and undoubtedly be pushing 1K by Labor Day, if prior summer bills are any indication, unless we get some unusual rains that settle over Texas. Come August, I'm usually wishing for just a small tropical storm to roll over the hill country and bring us some much needed rain.
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