Lazy Summer Days

It's July already. July is like the Wednesday of the calendar; we're halfway through the year, we're halfway through the summer break. Unlike Wednesday, it just means that summer break is that much closer to being over. 

Mulch and a little butterfly milkweed plant

It's been super muggy outside the past two days, with the associated thunderstorms. There were even some small EF0-1 tornadoes close by in Bowie. I did some garden work yesterday and today, trying to get rid of more of the invasive English ivy that runs rampant in our yard. Once I get that under semi-control, then maybe I can tackle the poison ivy that is springing up everywhere and making it difficult to mow anywhere beside the very front lawn.  

Yard waste bags filled with English ivy and other invasive junk

In the meantime, the Capitals released their schedule for 2022-23, and I am surprisingly not champing at the bit to go to any of the weekend games. In fact, the schedule pretty much sucks. I will likely try to go to the New Year's Eve gave versus Montreal, and my birthday game. There's talk in the #404family group text about trying to do a trip to Carolina for the Stadium Series game in February. But beyond that.... there aren't really any good weekend out-of-town games either, except maybe an Islanders game. 

I think we ditched our season tickets at the right time.