“There are jobs he’s started that he can’t finish because of the weather, especially paving jobs because it needs to be very dry.

“He does have a few jobs backed up, but people have been very understanding because they are getting the rain, too.”

Dragoon said that when her husband can’t get to the outdoor work he has to do, he’s spending time sharpening his tools, changing the oil in his equipment and providing estimates for future jobs.

“He’s doing the little things that he doesn’t always get the time to do. But if it’s rainy in the morning and sunny in the afternoon, he’s out there.

“But he keeps getting home later and later.”

WET FORECAST

Farmer’s Almanac readers won’t be surprised by the season’s downpours.

Its forecast for the Northeast for July predicts scattered thunderstorms, rain and average temperatures in the 70s.

It states that August will start off rainy and cool for the first two weeks, followed by showers and sunny periods from Aug. 17 to 22.

Thunderstorms will return for the last two weeks of August, the almanac states.

The National Weather Service in Burlington seems to agree.

Today and Friday are looking like the best days to get some outdoor work done in the North Country because another weekend of rain is in the immediate forecast.

“We’ve got another front moving in Saturday night, and we’ll see rain late Saturday and into Sunday,” said Maureen Breitbabh, meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

“And it looks like we’re going to be getting pretty much the same thing the rest of the week.”