The little lemon tree next to the RV drive has been sprouting a bunch of new growth this spring and summer. The new stuff is fine, but it obscures the lemon fruit currently growing on the tree. Since it was a cooler day today (only 98 degrees), I decided to prune off some of the excess. The images above are the before and after photos of the lemon tree. Click to alternate between the two.
Damsel came out with me and took the shears to the mesquite tree by the drive (not shown) and took off a lot of the “suckers” (unwanted new growth on the lower branches). There were a lot of them even though we did this not too long ago.
The cooler weather is due to a moist parcel of air in the southwest that has, and will continue through Saturday, triggered thunderstorms and light rainfall. Well, light meaning not at flash flood stage yet. It also has made the humidity climb way above that which we are used to (NOT our famous Arizona “dry heat”). It feels as muggy as it does in Florida at this time of year.
It’s been really muggy here, too.
Our humidity has been running well over 50% for the last few days, often hitting 65%~75% in the evening when it cools down.
Thankfully the temperature has dropped from the 80’s!90’s down to the 70’s, so at least it’s tolerable.
It’s cooler in the house with the A/C of course, but the humidity still pretty high. I had to change the desiccant in the gun safe and got the reading down to 32%. Still high but tolerable.