The Muggies Return

Today started cool and mostly cloudy and for July never got hot, but, and it's always the but that gets ya, there was a big increase in humidity and for someone trying to tear apart the remains of a bridge the sweat flowed easily. The forecast is still calling for upwards of 6" of rain for right here, we are the big winner in the rain forecast, but not yet. Still storms to the east and west but only a couple of hundredths here...time will tell.
The coastal low has moved off and now another low has slid in from the Great Lakes and seems cut off from the jet stream with few prospects for movement for much of the upcoming week. 3-6 inches of rain are forecast, that's why I thought now might be the time to retrieve the boards from the bridge that was swept away, in two pieces during the June 22nd 4+" deluge. Get them now or another 4" rain might move them much closer to the Chesapeake Bay than I would be able to retrieve them. Plans are in the works for a new bridge but I'm not sure this is the week.
We are in the middle of what my sister used to call, "the birthday week from hell"with my mom's birthday today, she would have been 96. My dad would have been 91 on Tuesday and his wife's kids and my sister's mother in law's birthday is tomorrow. Tomorrow is also a friend's 62nd birthday and it was two years ago on his 60th that I met the large brown dog that is now lounging on the floor here at the tire house, Breyer. A friend in California turned 65 yesterday and my nephew's 33rd trip around the planet finished up Wednesday. Quite the week of birthdays. Francesco Molinaro will remember today: he didn't make a bogey and everyone else did and he won the British Open Championship, becoming the first Italian to win one of golf's major. He has been dazzling of late, congrats to him.
Iran was the unlucky loser in the earthquake sweepstakes today; several quakes in the mid 5's, the biggest 5.9 in a couple of different spots in the rather large country ( my hope is there was none of the quakes were related to warfare).
Just heard some rumbling outside and it appears to be raining again. Going to sign off for now, hope you got out and enjoyed some muggy but cool weather and remember to turn around, don't drown if the floodwaters appear in your path. And, don't be afraid to take a walk in the rain, today on Earth.