It is a mystery

Friday afternoon, my aunt hosted the 4th party. I'm really unsure why friday at 2pm was the time, but I closed up the register at 1, did some plowing, ran the irrigation pumps, then showered and headed up. The heat was miserable to work in all week and a lot of my time was spent running irrigation. 

The party wasn't any cooler, my aunt and uncle don't have AC, not even window units so their house was pretty warm even with the fans running. Most of us just migrated to their porch because it was just as warm outside as in and there was a decent breeze plus a view of the orchard. A small storm rolled through but it didn't even do a tenth of an inch but it hailed 20 mins away so I'm okay with it. I left around 7 to do tractor setup for the neighbor to help me and went to bed early after my mom decided to have a lot of feelings about the upcoming trip at me. I did not appreciate this, I was so tired. Being cranky back wouldn't do anything, so I just went to sleep. 

Saturday, we were open, I still haven't gotten someone to cover weekends, so I was on register. It was only 85F, positively cool! But I got up early to finish the plowing, wrapping it up just before we opened at 8 and by the time I got off work at 1pm, I was already tired. But I ran the irrigation for an hour, packed, put away all the equipment that shouldn't get wet, then pulled the pumps, showered and hit the road to my brother's. I almost didn't go. I was so hot and tired. 

The drive down sucked. It is becoming clear that my truck AC is not keeping up anymore and I mildly sweated all the way down the turnpike. I stopped and used the bathroom at a rest stop solely to wake myself up. Despite the day, there was basically no traffic and the drive was easy down near Philly. I arrived at my brother's place around 5pm where they reheated food for me and I ate a ton of fruit. My dad and I kept an eye on the weather back home via the weather station app and the radar, which was 0.6 inches of rain in 20 mins plus high winds. I have to go out this afternoon and start cleanup on some of that.

We hung out, watched the thunderstorms that rolled through, I got the tour of their new place which was absolutely beautiful and cool. The younger crowd of us stayed up until 1am playing Bomb Busters which is basically fancy collaborative go fish. It was a lot of fun! 

I slept in until 9am on the couch but was one of the first up anyway. I got lots of dog snuggles, ate brownies for breakfast (absolutely amazing gluten free brownies) and we all slugged around until after lunch. I hit the road, taking the long route and avoiding the turnpike and the traffic snarls on 95 and got home just about in time to get an inch and a half of rain in about 45 minutes. I had checked on the pumps and the creek levels as soon as I got home, then decided to fully pull the pumps and pipes after that rain came through. One of the creeks had risen over a foot due to the storm. It's back down now, but we still have a flood watch. Rain total for the weekend is three inches and we're getting more tonight.

We are hitting the point of desperately behind, the corn maze is not in the ground yet, there is time sensitive spraying to be done and one of my main farm employees just texted that he has a fulltime job starting next week. And my parents are out of town this week. Great. Well, oh well. I'll figure it out. Or not.