• There's Always The Weather

Posted: **Fri May 24, 2024 10:41 am**

kristoff wrote: Thu May 23, 2024 2:06 pm All I have been trying to grow is new grass. With all the excessive rain (my garage flooded yesterday) my seed is just washing away. I would have covered it in burlap, but we already used up what we had. And then today, contractors tore up my boulevard putting in fibre-optic stuff. I don't have a yard anymore, I have a mud pit.

Naked mud wrestling at Krister's... Who is up for it? As it's the front yard, exhibitionists only!

Posted: **Sat May 25, 2024 6:16 pm**

It rained. Again. I have been trying to get my garden tilled by a neighbor. He tried. He also drove the septic tank, but his tractor isn't large, so I think it'll be OK. My lately deceased Uncle said he helped install it for Grandpa in 196x, so it's plenty deep enough, he said, for a pickup truck to go over it. Well, if it breaches, the grass will let me know. I'll plant tomatoes over top of it. The garden is a muddy cloddy mess now. I have yet to plant my canna lily roots, as they have to be dug each winter in this zone or they freeze. My seedling plants are pathetic, so I'll likely not have much of a garden. Bonnie Plants at Wal-Mart are almost $5 each for 4" potted seedling. I said "no."

It did hit 89F here the other day. I actually got warm!

We're looking at severe weather threats all weekend, so that's just great...

Posted: **Sat May 25, 2024 7:20 pm**

Paolo wrote: Sat May 25, 2024 6:16 pm It rained. Again. I have been trying to get my garden tilled by a neighbor. He tried. He also drove the septic tank, but his tractor isn't large, so I think it'll be OK. My lately deceased Uncle said he helped install it for Grandpa in 196x, so it's plenty deep enough, he said, for a pickup truck to go over it. Well, if it breaches, the grass will let me know. I'll plant tomatoes over top of it. The garden is a muddy cloddy mess now. I have yet to plant my canna lily roots, as they have to be dug each winter in this zone or they freeze. My seedling plants are pathetic, so I'll likely not have much of a garden. Bonnie Plants at Wal-Mart are almost $5 each for 4" potted seedling. I said "no."

It did hit 89F here the other day. I actually got warm!

We're looking at severe weather threats all weekend, so that's just great...

Possibly relevant -

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/432 ... the_Septic _Tank

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077628/

I never read the book, but I remember enjoying her columns back in the day.....

WheelyFixed

Posted: **Sat May 25, 2024 8:34 pm**

If the grass is indeed greener over the septic tank, that's a sure sign of a leak!

Posted: **Sat May 25, 2024 8:59 pm**

Paolo wrote: Sat May 25, 2024 6:16 pm It rained. Again. I have been trying to get my garden tilled by a neighbor. He tried. He also drove the septic tank, but his tractor isn't large, so I think it'll be OK. My lately deceased Uncle said he helped install it for Grandpa in 196x, so it's plenty deep enough, he said, for a pickup truck to go over it. Well, if it breaches, the grass will let me know. I'll plant tomatoes over top of it. The garden is a muddy cloddy mess now. I have yet to plant my canna lily roots, as they have to be dug each winter in this zone or they freeze. My seedling plants are pathetic, so I'll likely not have much of a garden. Bonnie Plants at Wal-Mart are almost $5 each for 4" potted seedling. I said "no."

It did hit 89F here the other day. I actually got warm!

We're looking at severe weather threats all weekend, so that's just great...

:-\ Paolo I think you mite plant rose bush? Think Love Chanel.:)Ernie of Maine

Posted: **Sun May 26, 2024 1:26 pm**

Paolo wrote: Sat May 25, 2024 8:34 pm If the grass is indeed greener over the septic tank, that's a sure sign of a leak!

I remember many years ago my grandmother's septic tank started backing up... Lots of relatives in construction started investigating, and diagnosis was that the leach-line had gotten stopped up... There was a recollection of having put it in 20-30+ years earlier, but not just where.... However noticing that a particular length of a hedge-row near the edge of the yard was MUCH greener sort of gave us a clue....

WheelyFixed

Posted: **Tue Jun 04, 2024 12:21 pm**

May Gray

has transitioned to

June Gloom

Posted: **Tue Jun 04, 2024 1:49 pm**

We just had the first weekend in a long time that it did NOT rain at all.... OTOH, the plants still seem to be having a lot of

. or at least spreading their

all over... I recently started PT for some shoulder problems, and it is amazing how much pollen I seem to pick up just going from our house to the van, and then from where I park into the PT place... My chair leaves the most impressive yellow tire tracks on their black rubber floor, it's sort of embarassing

WheelyFixed

Posted: **Sun Jun 23, 2024 4:45 am**

Better than brown pollen.

Nice full moon at 4:30 am, but felt warm - actually 72. Beats working summer in Yuma when you get up early to beat the heat and the bank sign reads 93 as you head out at 5 am. Ugh. Absolute worst was the first hour after sunrise as a touch of night humidity burns off.

Posted: **Fri Jul 12, 2024 11:03 pm**

Ithas been just plain hot cloudless blue skies. Elevation dents heat a bit, but still 101. Finally getting monsoons to keep dogs on edge. Forecast for next week shows thunderstorms and temps dropping into 80s.

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