10-24-2025 — Hail of a rain

Howdy all. The real rain finally hit and hit and hit. Lots of water yesterday. Flooding happened in the county. Not on this street though. Great drainage a few hundred feet from the lake, and the 20 foot or so drop to it. But, it was a very noisy night as the sheeeets of rain just kept hitting the roof and sides of the house. I haven’t gone outside, but maybe it rinsed the buggies off the siding? I hope. Very few on the windows this morning.

This was a hail storm that lasted for a good couple of minutes. Very noisy outside and inside.

I’m going to go take a peak at the bug situation out there.

Yep, outside exists. And it is cold out there!

The buggies on the deck seem to have all rinsed off to underneath. Maybe the critters living under the deck consume insect carcasses too.

This is a closer look at the garage entrance. Lots of dead buggies, but nowhere near the inches I’ve had to leaf blower away almost daily for the last two weeks.

There were a few live ones hanging on near the doors to the house. But generally, much cleaner siding. And way more disgusting ground and mulch with the mess. Oh well, soon it will all be covered in a layer of snow, and will disappear from my view.

Later update. Dried up enough for lawn service to run mowers across lawns and mulch in much of the leaves. And their big leaf blowers did a decent job of sending most of the dead buggies off the concrete and into the grass.

Even later update. The buggies are trying to come back,,, again. Many more on the windows and walls by evening. Ugh.

Just a quick update on my tummy bug. Slowly getting better. I may try and eat a “real” meal sometime today. For now, I just had my morning protein milk carton. I find it a convenient way to take my daily herbals and vitamins, and my much needed Prilosec (the only “real” drug, I take). The milk brand is “Boost” and it really does give me a boost most mornings.

I did have more food today than the last 3 combined. And still wasn’t a healthy amount for my size. And the Egg/sausage muffin I had for dinner is really sitting in my gut like a load of concrete. But I’ll keep trying to recover from whatever this was.

Need to do whatever it takes to Enjoy Life