After a few last showers early this week, dry and warmer is the forecast, with a touch of cooling after Monday. Those last showers took us to 2.55", which is exactly the average for June! Last weekend was quite wet with a one-inch Saturday, so on to July and its mere 0.92-inch average.
The Swainson's Thrush really began to sing as the rain came back - we hadn't made that association before, but the song was really sparse in the previous few weeks. Now they are singing in many locations, and my wife's favorite tune can be heard on many local stations. I'm also now acquainted with the Towhee's fast call so I can better notice their prevalence; the black-headed Grosbeak I already knew and that also is common.
Phase one of the re-lawning did not go well due to very old grass seed. We now have fresh seed, so I'll return the soil in that plot and expand it a bit before seeding and watering. It would have been best in the showery days before this, but it was worth trying the old seed which we had in abundance. Ah well, we do as we must.
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