Headed out to the garden and had a few squash and cucumbers to gather. I really need to start digging more potatoes as they are beginning to be ready.

Much needed chiro appointment helped the damn numbness that is pervading my right side thanks to the insane knots around my shoulder blade. Some help on the hips but only so much, I need to roll a lot more.

Made it home and after a bit of resting to not instantly negate the adjustment headed up to where the garlic had grown and pulled a bunch of the weeds that were left. I need to get the needles shoveled aside then till the area. I have a bin of grain ready soon so will spread that before tilling.

I spent a good hour plus designing the screens for my vario. The device that tells me if I am climbing or sinking and many other metrics. We have a designer program that allows us to build out the various pages for what we want. This is my main page for general soaring.

This is the map page that will show my flight track over the map.

This is the airspaces page that will automatically switch to if I get within a certain distance of a controlled airspace, like say that around the Air Force Base or Spokane airport.

Then this is the Thermal page with a huge display of the thermalling centering.

PDC is ongoing and some solid matches happened. Bunting just won out with 2 clear sets. There are some solid upsets taking place too.

I sorted rocks on the deck for a bit in the afternoon then after 4pm I took the boys to town. We met @stryeyz at Panda for dinner before they went to VBS.

I was looking out the window to the north and WOW!

Quite the storms building up. The anvils of the thunderstorm tops were highly noticeable.

As I drove for the farm I marveled at the size of the storms.

The doppler looked like they were going to miss us which those ones did. I was walking out to the package box to check and halfway down the driveway I heard the thunder.

Headed back to the house and looked up to see the edge of the storm just skirting in overhead.

It was DUMPING back under its edge.

The doppler made it look like it was COMIN RIGHT FER US!!!!

Then I went to Windy which shows the lightning and there was quite a bit popping off from the storms.

So up the hill I hiked to my launch to check out the cells.

It was really cool to watch the storms move past the farm just to the west.

This is one of my favorite shots. There are wildfires out that direction which is partly why the orange, and the contrast of the blue sky to dark cloud belly.

They ended up coalescing into one storm.

It was a bit odd to me though that there was ZERO winds. The flags all around me barely flipped a tip at any point.

On the backside of the storm, well more side of it I guess, the rain began to fall. It was really not a ton but enough to wet the ground and the tress nicely.

I headed for the house as the rain got a bit heavier. In the end it really did just skirt the farm and we got only the side of the storms. I'd have liked for a bit more rain but anything is better than nothing.

It rained a bit longer but by 8pm was past.

Another short soak.

Today I want to go fly but no one is seeming to be up for going with. If I do go it will end up a hike and fly it looks like and I only have the mtn bike as return to car right now. The new throttle for the scooter arrives today. Have harvests to get to first, more weeding, garlic to trim, need to check the sled brakes, and many other things I probably won't get to.

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