i see a pattern here

wet and miserable in the northwest then dry and warm in the northeast

then just the opposite when it changes

3 days in the 80s in april....this i have been waiting 3 years for

enjoy this video...what a living planet we live on

this video must have been filmed in december as it has comet lovejoy in it

http://news.yahoo.com/video/science-157 ... 50993.html

Gray. Drizzle with a quarter inch yesterday while the Southland was said to be in the midst of a heat wave. I couldn't find any heat wave.

It is my kind of hot tub weather.

And a mid week storm is planned too. Rain off the desert, not down the coast.

I guess for all the suffering of the garden the Loquats will ripen that much slower extending a usually short season of these drippy sweet fruit.

Some of my garlic is yellowing. Planted in December. Could it possibly be ready?

I have too few precious plants to experiment. Some look like they are forming a plant within a

plant with needle like leaves coming out. I wanted some to flower & seed like my cilantro and Italian Parsley and green leaf lettuce.

Moi

In Boring Weather Land

An accumulation of just less then a quarter inch of rain. This year the total precipitation has only been about 60% of normal. But, it has come at good times that I do not believe numbers reveal how severe a water shortage might exist. The numbers look bad but the distribution was more sod soaking rather then gully washing to the ocean.

Areas of my garden with "top soil" not protected by the electric fence got a dose of "Critter Ridder" after being dug up by some marauding racoons.

The Boysenberries and Blackberries are fruiting with some turning from green to red.

My apple tree and my neighbor's older apple tree are sleeping late this year. They send out a blossom or two like Noah's dove and seem convinced it is not time to take in the sun.

Carpeting, dark ominous clouds sit high above a brightened band of sky left by the departing sun.

The air is crisp with a hint of sea salt. A good epicurean atmosphere with no cues what terrors the night brings.

Moi

Practicing my bad writing.

Just the last paragraph though. The rest was sincere. Bad enough.

what a different spring from the last 3 years

it will be in the 90s for next few days

garden was dry enough to work yesterday

now i just need to plant it

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Sun Apr 08, 2012 4:17 pm Moi, you are so wrong, you don't live in Paradise, you live in southern California, Paradise is north east of Chico California.

Me thinks Moi has smoked to much pot, thinks he lives in Paradise.

River

I once went to Reno, Nevada and found a pair of dice in the street. However, in LasVegas, Nevada taking a showgirl to my room I once found a paradise between... oh... NEVERMIND...!

My #1 son lives in a small town in Northern California, it was founded in the 1850's gold rush days and the miners called it HELL. After the gold pann

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Wed May 25, 2011 8:33 pm ed out the people that stayed decided that

the cities name, 'HELL' was most likely not a name that would invite people to move there so they change the name to 'Paradise'.

River

Akin to our June Gloom with coastal clouds and over cast keeping temeratures down to 70 and spiking once you go inland a few miles. I live between the light and the shadow, like a Mimbari.

Enjoying my garden I ate a few sweet shelling peas, picked some juicy dark boysenberries - I wait for all redness to disappear, some crisp crunchy bite the sides of your tongue red radishes, some loquats and harvesting my garlic, slicing it fresh into my Chili instead of white onion. The latter are still growing. A two fist sized Avocado fell off the tree and is in a ripening bag.

C'est Paradise.

Moi

Got Weather?

Really super dooper nice Memorial Day weather here.

Just a nice sunny, comfortable day.

How was yours? Some in the MidWest had nineties. That feels "HOT" there.

Moi

Got Weather?

Foreigners may share their weather on Monday 5/28/12 because we are very Liberal here.

It was +96F here with moderate humidity. I was able to don shorts and a T-shirt, finally.

It was the kind of day that would have reduced those from the Great White North into melted little puddles of ooze!

hehe

The downside is that it's terribly dry and the grass is beginning to die here already.

in the 70s this week with filtered sunshine