Another Dry Summer?

[Bird]

<font color=blue>Wish we could spread it around the country.</font color=blue>

Me, too, Al. We got a quarter inch yesterday morning and just a few sprinkles this morning. And with the sun shining now, you can't even tell we got any rain. The garden sure does need watering, but I don't know what we'd do with all the stuff if I did water it./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif Neighbors came and picked squash and cucumbers day before yesterday. Yesterday, I picked blackberries, onions, turnips, broccoli, cauliflower, and bell peppers for us. This morning my brother and his wife came and picked turnips, beets, onions, broccoli, and bell peppers. Besides eating our fill, my wife has canned 3 cases of green beans in the last two weeks, and they need picking again.

Hard for me to imagine just now planting, but of course, my garden will probably be burned up and plowed under when yours is in its prime./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bird

 

[DFB]

Bird, You sure can have my rain this week! Got 500+ plants in before it started to rain yesterday morning. Been raining steady ever since in southern Vt. About halfway done. Not supposed to clear up untill Thurs./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

DFB

 

[Bird]

DFB, I heard they got 2" to 4" 30 miles from me when I got that quarter inch./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif So I did spend a major part of the afternoon watering the garden, and still wish I had an inch or two of rain.

Bird

 

[Tdog]

Alan,

Thanks for the thought. I'd sure like to have a little of your sprinkles & I know Bird would too. We got another 0.2 of an inch last night. Not enough to dampen the soil below the surface. Not complaining - - I was happy to have it - - just wish we could get little showers like that every day or two instead of every 2 - 3 weeks, at best.

Giving your young'n his own mystery pack of seeds & his own garden patch is a great idea.

 

[blaze]

Wildfires very near our house, less than a mile away. Choking smoke lingers in the air, especially in the early morning hours. Interstate 4 and the Florida Turnpike, our major highways were shut down yesterday and again today. We are in serious need of rain.

South Florida might get a little today but it probably won't affect us.

 

[Bird]

Al (and DFB), I really appreciate the rain you sent us early this morning; got 1.13"/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif unexpectedly after I just spent all afternoon yesterday watering the garden./w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif But we still needed the rain, so for that I'm thankful. However, it would have been so much better if you hadn't sent that howling wind along with it that's blown limbs down all over the yard, blew half the green plums off the trees, laid most of the corn on the ground, and peeled one corner of the barn roof back./w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif/w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

Bird

 

[DFB]

Sorry to hear that Bird,/w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif But that wind didn't come from here. So far all its been is a continous warm, gentle rain. No winds.

A couple of weeks back we had severe winds that flipped the covers right off the cold frames and took some vinyl siding off of the house./w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

DFB

 

[Bird]

Well, I guess we were lucky; at least I don't find any damage to the house or shop building.

Bird

 

[jimmoore]

Bird, got about 2" here w/o the wind, thank goodness!!

jim

 

[Bird]

Jim, I'm glad for you that you didn't have this wind. I said it peeled a section of the barn roof back because that's what it looked like from here at the house; turned out I wasn't that lucky. The barn has a 12' "shed?" built onto one side. It not only goes all the way down that side, but extends about 10' beyond the barn on the end away from the house. Railroad cross tie posts, 2 x 10 and 2 x 6 framing, roofed with galvanized, corrugated sheet metal. So when I glanced out there and saw that sheet metal sticking up at the far end, I just assumed it had pulled loose from the framing, but no, the wind had lifted one corner, framework and all. That corner post was old enough, it broke off at ground level and then as the framework lifted, it pulled the next post out of the ground, so the end of the post was sitting on top of the ground. I didn't know whether a B2710 FEL was strong enough to lift that corner or not, but it did; got the one post back in the hole it came out of, and the broken one sitting back in place and temporarily reinforced with a steel "T" post until I can fix it right. I got all the limbs out of the yard, then my wife and daughter helped me pick up a little over 20 gallons of green plums out of the yard; a nuisance to pick up, but no real loss because the trees are still way overloaded with plums this year.

Bird