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There are a few different pre emergent options and they have different time periods that they cover based on rate of application. Some only cover as little as 30 days-ish. Some can cover 90-120. Depending on what you applied and when, you could have lost all coverage to stop crabgrass from coming up (if applied early spring) Sometimes you need to do a split application and apply again mid summer. Don't shoot the messenger about chemicals..lol. Just giving info. Also, the thicker you can get your grass also reduces weeds that will germinate. I don't use pre emergent, but do get some crabgrass pop up in spots and some other random stuff.

2 days ago I was outside and my cat chased 2 Fishers into the woods, saw it first hand. I wonder how aggressive they really are towards house cats? Interesting article below. Coyotes, yea that is a different story for sure. https://archive.nytimes.com/scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/do-fishers-really-eat-cats/

One of these work as well...

I did the same, letting it get little long to shade the soil, although it's been dry here so it has not been growing like it normally does. Defintley some drought stress showing yesterday.

Cars have that mid winter caked salt look from the dust and pollen around here. I have had about 1" of rain since May 1st, heavy watering of veggies and gardens

Just how the chamber draws it up for my daughter's outdoor school concert.

I don't think there is any repellent of any kind that works on them. Maybe @tamarack knows some old school concoction..

Leaf out exploding in the SVT banana belt. Low 70s today and mostly sunny. Perfect May day.

Decent cirrus in the Adirondaks right now, sun still coming through, so hope it holds like this!

Phin got banned..maybe 2 years ago at this point?

I do remember him posting about some streamer/upslope type scraps like you mentioned a number of times. It's obviously not prime upslope country, but good enough to get some leftovers? Certainly closer to the source region of orographic type snows than Gene would be. But, I am just spit balling and he would obviously know more than me...ha.

My property tax already almost doubled last year. They reassessed all of Manchester in 2023, they went through the roof.

6" new in about 2 hours under the last band that hung overhead. Even with a good amount of IP, still up to 19.1" for the event. LOT of liquid in this. Could have been an all timer without that mid level warmth push. Still really impressive.

This guy is in a little trouble I would say..down by Mitch in Searsburg VT..lot of ZR I'm sure contributed.

That's been well modeled for a few days, the mix line always looked to come in quick to his area. My area was more uncertain, but held off long enough to stay snow or mostly snow for now.

11.1" Total mixed bag though now as windows are getting pelted. Prob 50/50 SN/IP.

Been so many events with razor thin margins in this area--whether its IP, ZR, rain. Mitch is only about 20 miles south of me, but we have the same totals this winter--I think 69" vs 70". He probably averages 40-50" more annually.

Stat padder week. 4.0", 1.8", 2.8" last 3 days.

Surprise 4" fell here overnight.

1 year ago to the day pretty good too..

5.5" with 1.22" liquid equivalent. Solid 4.5-1 ratio..ha

Everything getting pretty caked here now, been hovering around 32 most of the time. Definitely overperforming for the valley up to your north here- 3.8" and mod to heavy at 1100'.

Accidents all over SVT right now, seeing a ton of social media posts.

1.4" very very low ratio, but some meatballs falling for now. Would assume more up high so far. My cam doesn't pick up night snow very well, anytime I can make out flakes I know they are pretty big..lol. #caughtonNestCam. https://video.nest.com/clip/9c7ef73758fe4d06ae1205c77e47ea35.mp4

Moss grows based on environmental conditions--usually shade, moisture and soil make up. Unless you change a couple of those, it will most likely come back. Raking and products can solve the problem short term, but long term will be fighting the moss battle without changing the reasons for it forming in the first place.