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I have some friends with a place on Lake George, was up there about 5-6 weeks ago and the house was covered in caterpillars, just crawling everywhere on everything. 30 mins NW of here in extreme western VT at my sister in law's also seeing some damage and good amount of caterpillars at her house as well. Haven't seen any locally or noticed any issue, but feel like it's only a matter of time.

Looks like a bunch of trees down with some roads closed around town, guess it was legit severe.

Only good thing about these dews are the absurd rainfall rates if you can catch one of these cells. Dropped to 74/68 with .76" of rain in like 10 mins- and actually some really good gusts too. Sun back out as I type..should rocket back up the 80s. 87.8F high for the day. 88.8F yesterday.

Saw a couple of sicko's jogging fully masked an hour ago in 87/75 mank. I mean, cmon-just dumb and kind of dangerous. Its awful sitting in the shade today unmasked.

It's all about whether they bloom on "old wood" versus "new wood". New wood varieties like Limelight(like you mentioned) and others like Annabelle types bloom on new wood every year. They will bloom and come back no matter how harsh the winter or pruning. You can prune some of those down to the ground in fall or spring and they will still bloom every summer. Its the only ones I have seen reliably bloom here in VT because the harsh winters and cold springs. I have 15-20 and they all bloom every year. Endless summers varieties (big leaf hydrangeas) bloom on old wood only. They are more susceptible to not blooming due to a number of factors--winter harshness, pruning time, spring time thaw/freeze cycle/etc. When I lived in PA my endless summers would bloom some years and not others(like Cape mentioned). Glad it seems like a good year for those varieties for you guys this summer.

Me: " I have to cut the lawn" Wife: Didn't you just cut it 2 days ago? Me: "It grows really, really, really fast" I was into before kids too. But certainly not really much when I was single..ha.

And there is the CMC..

Today felt great after yesterday. Next few days should be nice, but man that Euro is bad. Tip opined a bit on it, but that is a pig Bermuda HP, dews are going to be awful if it's correct. I like this panel..lol. No escape.

Its really soupy....my dew is 70-71F. Enjoy out there.

Damn, 8/28 is crazy for flakes. I know Allagash is way up in the far north, but still. Not like its 4k.

The CO-OP near me here in SVT at 1700' has never had measurable snow in 60 years. Only 1 year had a trace. Doubt Jspin would have ay at 500', even with him being in NVT. Im sure he will have the graph ready in the AM though . Would think you would have to be pretty high up for Sept snow more than a trace.

Red Mulch use is an absolute crime. Shouldn't even be sold.

What an utter disaster that was as a Sixers fan. Doc's seat may be getting warm, but this team may need to break up in the off-season if they lose this series. Not that anyone in this thread gives two shites about the Sixers..ha.

42.2F here. Great sleeping even with windows closed.

New England has some amazing stone walls, love those too. I built a couple hundred feet of stone walls all from rocks hand picked from my woods-that was alot of work..lol

Nice, one of my neighbors is doing some serious excavation right now for some type of addition and they have piles and piles of rocks and boulders. Not sure what their plan is, but going to ask them if they can drop a few in my yard..

Love it, nice use of the natural landscape, people would pay good money to have some hardscape rocks like that put into their landscape. Personally, larger rocks/boulders/ledge combined into garden beds with perennials or evergreens is one of my favorite looks.

Been really dry pretty much everywhere in VT, we're pretty much half way through the year and precip totals are pretty low. Bennington County has top 4 spots. The lowest I saw that had all days covered was South Burlington with 9.75". That's crazy for 6 months worth. I guess the only caveat would be if the observers are not doing LE for all snow events, maybe that's the case.

Nice, lawn and landscape beds looking good. Some of those mature trees can help with some shade too to keep soil temps down and and retain some moisture.

Man, what a day and evening. We enjoy.

My 3 heritage river birch I planted in 2018 have grown like damn weeds. But I know that is a known characteristic of it and soft wood trees.. Planted at 8ft in 2018 and now prob over 20'. The 2 Triflorum Maples I planted late summer last year did nothing at all last summer and pretty much nothing so far this year either as far as growth.

Looks like my old stomping grounds in PA had some training cells too yesterday. I didn't track rainfall really when I lived there, just had a cheapo gauge in the yard. Summer TStorms were legit there. Feel like it was no big deal to see 3-5" in the gauge.

Desperately awaiting the whoosh here. Jungle feeling with the rain last night. Dews around 70-71F most of the day so far.

Lol, my area is practically Manhattan compared to Mitch's. Looks like .64" for him..bodies intact.

Yea, up around 2" now. We can get the scraps from ENY/ Mohawk Valley. Seems like a fair number of EF0 and EF1 TORS have happened in those areas in recent years.