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Looks like I'm at 59.67" which is prob a bit above average and there is a little sliver of green near my station which seems about right too. Mitch is over 70". No one is within 10" precip wise. Obviously its been a little wetter overall in the southern part of the state as the map illustrates.

Ryegrass should be 4-5 days..its super quick, the bluegrass is really slow and even when it does come up, it barely grows for another week or two. Hope for a warm fall for the Bluegrass to fully establish.

Depends on what is on the mix like Bob said. Need to look on the lesco bag.

Yep, exactly. The prep is what takes longer and is most of your time and effort, but worth it in the long run.

Definitely not too early for seed. I reseeded some areas 3 weeks ago and have mowed them 2 times already. You can start doing fert apps too. Want to make sure your seed gets down to the soil, why I commented on Bobs post about the nice seed bed.

Definitely noticing some subtle changing down here. Some of those purple-ish hues and a smattering of faint reds.

That was a nice a seed bed you had prepped with the dethatching, definitely going to get better and quicker germination than the "spread it and forget it" method.

Yea, I'm mean an entire career thrown down the tube for fake vax cards? I'm guessing there is more to the story that we don't know about, because on face value it just makes no sense.

https://m.sevendaysvt.com/OffMessage/archives/2021/09/07/feds-investigate-three-vermont-troopers-in-fake-vaccination-card-probe I dont get the point of this. Where is a vax card even required outside of international travel? I loosely know one of these guys, just strange as it says VT state police doesn't require it.

Yea, that sums it pretty well. Two of those SVT towns-Peru/Winhall feed into that school I was talking about needing the extra trailer space. There certainly has been an large uptick in Manchester as well, but I think maybe more of just turnover of older folks selling and younger people coming in with families, as Manchester is already an established town with decent year round population compared to the ski towns with so many empty second ski homes now being occupied full time.

Best Fall Getaways: Magazine Says Small New England Town Among Nation’s Top Destinations – NECN As if it wasn't already crazy enough in October around here.. A lot of small NE towns and suburbs may be changed forever Post Covid. My older daughter who is 9 has 8 new kids in her grade this year, they had 6 last year too. Pre Covid maybe had 1 or 2 new over a 3 year period. If you extrapolate those numbers to all grades and with 4 local elementary schools, you can see the overall new influx.(Obviously 8 new per grade if probably high, my other daughter has 3-4 I think). The elementary school that serves the Stratton/Bromely area's I know cant handle the new influx this year. I think they had to bring in extra trailers or something, it's crazy. Amazing the difference from just 6-7 years ago when we moved here. You would think this would be huge boom to the local economy here, as most people moving here are white collar workers-upper-middle class and up it seems.

Yesterday's 65F high definitely a little shock to the system, also was gusting to 30-35 throughout the day on some strong east flow/downslope winds. Spent 5 days in the ADKs during the peak heating this week and max lake water temp got to 83.7F. Warmest I've ever seen it there. Only thing high dews are good for, so worked out perfect swimming wise.

Yea, it was literally one isloated cell sitting near the spine.

There were a bunch of CT stations that had 7-8" for May in Cocorahs. Same with Mass right over the border in that same zone.

Not sure to be honest, first time in ADKs for me in a month or so. I haven't heard of those, but add another annoying disease transferring pest to the list in New Eng. I haven't noticed any like that in SVT.

Mosquitoes are apocalyptic in the Adirondacks right now. Full on sprint from the car to get into the house. I thought skeeters were supposed to be slow, these suckers seem to be on the juice...ha

I've used the Tripoclyr from HD which is only like 8% tripoclyr and never had any issues. Just saw that Tripoclyr 4 is 61%--yikes, that could do some damage if not applied absolutely perfectly.

Riding this one out in the ADKs, not expecting much of anything, but like PF mentioned, got an evening swim in before dinner..lake is 81F perfect degrees.

Oh, right. Makes more sense now-lol. Thanks

Yes, you can check the whole state and sort by highest total--which was Willington. Staffordville had 27.98"

There are ALOT of 6-8" totals in Cocorahs for May in CT. Nothing over 30" for totals though. Highest total from 5/1 through 8/19 is 29.49" in Willington. I'm sure there was as you guys are reporting it form local Davis PWS, just nothing official in Cocorahs.

Yea, without looking deeper into data, I would say 9/1 sounds a little early. Maybe in the oxen and knickers era..

I'm not sure, but you do seem to have every plant and tree species known to exist in New England in your plot of land there..lol.

I did mine with UMass a couple years ago..pretty simple, would recommend that over DIY stuff.