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It’s crazy how easily the virus spreads, but it’s good to hear that the symptoms are so far, not more serious. If you’re able and feel up to it, keep us posted.

@DCTeacherman If you see this, I’d like to know how you’re doing.

To each his own. Like I said, a different channel for it. eta: I’d be especially interested in hearing baseball and hockey.

It does stink, but I didn’t have big expectations for the postseason this year. I’m just happy that they are able to play, and hopefully can get through the entire season. I wish there was a pay channel that ran all the sports games with audio equipment on the field to hear the player’s chatter. If ESPN can do the MJ series, why not every other sport? It would be such a different and cool perspective.

It’s nice heading into August and still being in it.

.34” yesterday is the best day yet for July, and finally over an inch for the month. Not unusual, but frustrating that the closest CoCoRaHS station to me is a couple of miles away and is 2” better than me for the month.

Late to the party but 21 wins.

I hope it stays mild for you, and glad that you got tested.

Were the headache and congestion the only symptoms that you had? No fever? Tiredness?

.12” here too, with a meager .32” for these last two days that I had high hopes for, and still less than an inch for July. I guess this is payback for getting the goods in June.

I’m right there with you. I came home this afternoon to .20” from yesterday’s miss.

For everyone that has had rain today, I hate you. Sitting on .53” for the month.

I just checked the radar and my girlfriend is laughing. I should have brought a shovel.

You and the family would be welcome. Funny story, but we got here and start setting up camp and guess what we forgot? The tent! Raced to a local WalMart and got their last tent. Sleeps 10! I was thinking we’d sell it after one use, but damn! It’s roomy AF! Even has a vestibule! So, plenty of room!

I agree, and no one should be surprised when all the “central MD” counties do the same thing. They discuss snow decisions at 4AM so I’d expect nothing different here.

That’s a best case scenario but it’s pretty impossible logistically, especially given the time constraints. Hoco was hoping to do that but students and teachers had to commit to a year of online learning regardless of how things (hopefully) improved throughout the school year. And then there was no guarantee they could go back to their home school when this is over. And then there’s obviously matching up the numbers of virtual teachers to virtual students. It’s just complicated, and it’s no surprise to me that school systems would take the road of caution. Think about how lame our schools are with snow in this area... (paging @mattie g)

78 looking over Seneca Lake, NY, right now. Much cooler and breezier fishing on the lake earlier. We had to escape.

Good god. The long range temps on the 12z gfs look like the desert southwest.

Long story, and not very interesting, but it does illustrate that I would not be a very good farmer. I've mentioned that I have a mystery squash plant, and actually, I think there may be two. It came up between my cucumber and crook neck squash so I figured I'd just let it grow and hope that it was pumpkins that I need for brewing (I think one of them is a pumpkin judging by the fruit, but the other one is the same size and shape of the pie pumpkin, but it's warted pretty good, and I think yellower, but that's not the point). Not surprisingly, all the squash is doing really well, and when any of the vines went into the other areas of the garden or tried to escape into the lawn, I just cut them back. They're so prolific that it really doesn't matter. Anyway, I've been wondering why my cucumber plant hasn't been producing. It's marked well with a cage, and though it's jungle mix of vines and leave, i knew where I planted it. Each day I'd brave the prickly squash vines and dig through trying to find some fruit for pickling ending up with nothing but a rash up and down my forearms. We've had a couple, but there should be more. Well, this morning I went out and the cucumber plant looks spent. The leaves are wilting and there's stunted fruit on the longer vines, and then near the ground, I saw a bunch giant orange fruit that didn't look right. They were six or seven giant cucumbers that I never saw and they must have been robbing the plant. So, we'll still be buying pickles but hopefully there will be six or seven pumpkins for brewing.

Melnor ftw.

@WxWatcher007 Too bad that it will last less than 24 hours.

I am at Lowe’s in Owings Mills getting a couple things and walked through the flowers to see if they have anything that attracts butterflies. I think I can safely say Lantana does. @MN Transplant That sucks.

I just read that they only take 9 - 14 days to become butterflies. Will he cocoon in your yard this summer? It would be pretty cool if you could document it. Now I want a butterfly garden. Just what I need. Another hobby!

I hope not. Looking at the nws map of the east coast, we look tough for a change.

I’ve reported .98” in July, and .43” of that was reported on the 1st, so I’m really at about a half an inch for the month. Need some rain.