Unexpected Storm

I did some final work on the pavers yesterday and started to lay the artificial grass until I ran into a small problem. The flimsy "U" staples that they recommended to attach the grass to the surface wouldn't work. Our ground here is so full of rocks and just about every attempt to drive one into the carpet was met with a hard subsurface, and they would bend in half without attaching the carpet. I waited for Josie to come home so we could return those staples and buy some large galvanized nails that should penetrate this hard surface. We'll know today.

While cleaning up last night, Josie captured these neat photos of the sunset which occurred about an hour before a surprise storm:

The weather forecast indicated only a 20% chance of rain, but it should have been 100%. It started raining with some pretty strong winds at about 8 PM last night and I'm sure I will have a clean-up chore to perform before starting work outside. Our furniture under the gazebo should be fine, but the table and chairs that are in the open surely got drenched. My rain gauge showed a .15 " total of rainfall, but it seemed like a lot more.

I hope to get the grass done today along with placement of the fence, so we'll see if I can get all that done by the time Josie comes home from work at around 3 PM this afternoon...