Moldy Trunks and Torrential Rain

I went looking for something and, for the first time in weeks, I opened my antique wood travel trunk and almost fell over. Mold had struck and it stank. Pretty soon my whole house stank. I had been told things closed up would mold but everything else seems to be open air enough that I have not had a problem except for this one place that I didn't know about.

I emptied it out, tossed a lot of it and wiped everything else down with 2% bleach. I then washed the interior with 2% bleach.It has dried out now, and I put baking soda in bowls to try to get rid of any odor and the top is propped up a bit to let air in.

I can still smell it.

At 5:30 I decided it was time for a bike ride. It wasn't actively raining. Before I got out of the parking lot it was raining. If I went home at the first drop, I wouldn't get much riding done in the summer, so I kept on. I thought I had already experienced as wet as I could get while bike riding.

I was wrong.

I finally came home not because I was wet but because the streets were getting flooded. There was water running everywhere. I went through a puddle that was at least up to my axles. Good thing I wear saddles in the summer for riding. Sneakers take days to dry and also will hold lake Michigan squishing back and forth as one rides.

I have not gotten so wet that I had to wring out my clothes before hanging them up. This time I did. I made a big puddle in the tub. They are now hanging up to dry. when Brad and Cheryl Boydston left Guam they gave me a wood folding drying rack. It has been much used.

More sunsets

I seem to take more pictures of sunsets than anything else. I have never lived in a place before where beautiful sunsets are the norm not the unusual. Here are the best of the best I took last night. For a novel evenings bike ride, I did not get strinkled on, rained on, or dumped on. I expect during this rainy season to get wet regularly.
There is also thunder in those clouds now. This evening I got half way across the parking lot when a loud thunder clap rumbled. I turned around. That was my ride this evening. As you can see it's still raining out. I needed bottled water and took two 3 gallons bottles to the water store (the untreated local water can be drunk but it tastes awful). I got about as wet as the water in the bottles. The benefits of the rainy season are that everything turns green, green, green. This picture is out back of my apartment.