He really made it look pretty solid pretty soon:
Last of the prep work finished:
and we once again have a porch swing on the porch:
He bought this porch swing for me in 1997 in Perry, Iowa, and hung it up for me there. We moved it with us, and he hung it up on the screen porch at the old farmhouse when we bought it in 1998. It has not had a porch to hang on here since we bought this place in 2005. Sure looks good again, and it has a good view. We got to use it a little yesterday, but today it's been too hot to sit out there and admire the view much today.
We've had record-breaking heat in the month of June here. We went to town around 1 p.m. today after some ice cream, and the digital thermometer in the pickup said 106*F up at the black top on the way home. I figured it would get cooler as we came down the big hill into the shaded valley. It didn't. It went up to 107*F. As we came back up our hill and crossed the yard, it actually went up to 108*F. That was in the sun, but even the mercury thermometer on the porch in the shade read 104*F. It has been crazy hot and dry. We're behind 16 inches on rain over the last 12 months. There are heat advisories, heat warnings, and burn bans all over the Ozarks. They are advising on the news not to light off fireworks for the 4th of July, burn trash, or even make a campfire, as the woods are so dry. With the forest fires in Colorado, it sure makes sense.
Tropical Storm Debby dumped a lot of rain on Florida, and they have a big mess to clean up. We sure could have used some of that rain here. Praying that we get rain here soon. In the meantime, we'll sit on the porch swing with our coffee in the cool of the morning and our tea in the relatively cooler late evenings and admire the view.
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