tunafish

1 hour ago, Go Kart Mozart said:

gfs has the low approach...then run away like it is afraid of us.

Oh, we know what it's afraid of.

16 hours ago, bristolri_wx said:

I've been wanting to join but always forgot.  I liked looking at the site info.

That being said, I'm not 100% familiar with how it worked.  Is this something that could be duplicated with a Google Sheet, now that Kevin W's site has been retired?

Bingo.

Google Form with the responses routed to a Google Sheet.  

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

0.74”

0.13", up to 2.82" since 8/1.  I think you've eclipsed me at this point. 

Not that it makes any difference other than from a pure numerical standpoint.

2 minutes ago, tunafish said:

Hey @weatherwiz.  Check out this beauty.  Only about a half dollar coin size.  Let's see how big she can get (orb weaver).

I think she positioned herself where a light from a neighbor shines at night.  Can you find her?

She's pretty well hidden between the grasses and alyssum.

 

 

 

Hey @weatherwiz.  Check out this beauty.  Only about a half dollar coin size.  Let's see how big she can get (orb weaver).

I think she positioned herself where a light from a neighbor shines at night.  Can you find her?

She's pretty well hidden between the grasses and alyssum.

Birds everywhere.  Can hear em chirping outside as they fly by.

https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=subregional-New_England-comp_radar-24-0-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined

Best rates of the season.  Just dumping.

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1 hour ago, weatherwiz said:

The only light I keep on is just outside the back door but its not particularly bright and inside a cove (not sure what its technically called but its an overhang which connects the house with the garage. 

 

That's enough to attract bugs, which will attract spiders.  Heck, even an inside light left on will do that.

22 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

hmmm could be those. what kind is the "common yellow house spider"? 

Do you keep outside lights on at night?  Good way to attract lots of spiders (and f up migrating birds, but that's a different story)

52 minutes ago, dendrite said:

1.91” in the stratus. 

10 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

2.18"

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1.13" in the Strati. No complaints. 

2.68" since 8/1, but there are several CoCoRAHS stations along the coast with <2.00" in that timeframe.

4 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Dews into middle of next week too. Poor uninstalled’s 

With the economy great again, I'm shocked you haven't sprung for mini-splits. 

AC on Christmas Day, Morch - whenever. 

No more internal strife about uninstalling before the inevitable holiday dew rush.

Sad!

Hopefully a scorned lover and no more.  Don't need 'wedding shootings' becoming a thing, FFS.

47/39

All tucked in.  

55/41.

32 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Probably a raccoon and I bet it will be back. It can smell them and I’d bet they made enough peeps from the roof walking so that it could hear them too.

Just make sure that hardware cloth is very secure and that all doors are tight and preferably locked. They’re pretty good with their hands.

I have one of those little Wyze cams aiming on the coop and run. It was only like $25 on Amazon.

Looking at the prints closer, it definitely checked the cleanout door and window area by hanging off the roof.  All doors have a carabiner, and now the window does too.  The coop itself has an automatic door on a timer, so all around they're safe.  Hopefully it doesn't stress em too much.  I'm gonna grab one of those cameras, thanks. 

2 hours ago, dendrite said:

Man I don’t know. Obviously it had dirty feet, but I’m not sure how that would necessarily translate to the flat roof panels. How tall is your coop? What’s the length apart on those raised ridges on them? 8-9”?

Are there any prints on the ground? It could be one and there just wasn’t enough pressure to make a mark with the entirety of the toes. Those rear paw pads look to be about 1.5-2” wide? 

Other option…maybe a fisher?

Yeah sorry, no scale for reference.  Peak of the roof ridge is 6', and the metal panels are about 7" wide.  The ground would've been wet enough last night, and there's a variety of dirt all over here - so not wet enough to make a print, but enough to get its feet dirty.

There are raccoons around, and I have heard fisher here, but not in the last 2 warm seasons.  

Hens are safe inside the coop.  I do wonder if it hung out and tried to get in, or of they stayed silent and the critter moved along.  The only part that's not secure is their window.  Hardware cloth under, but it's a small piece, and if nothing else they'd be freaking out and injure one another.

@dendrite

Had a critter snooping on the roof of my coop overnight. Probably raccoon?

50 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Every lawn here is scorched brown, but you’ve had a lot more rain than we have too.

Here too, obv, but every hundred lawns or so is a bright green one.  Just irrigating the hell out of it daily.  Looks so gross and out of place.  Entire landscape is fading color and then, boom, jarring bright green.

1.47" since 8/1.  No soil sensor but I was ripping and flipping sod for before sheet mulching in the rain a few weeks ago (when we got an 1" over 3 days), and the soil directly under the grass was dusty dry.  While it was raining, literally.

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

0.99”

The hundredth shy is just Stein slapping you right in the face.  Brutal.

8 minutes ago, dryslot said:

Just finished a small greenhouse as well to winter the citrus trees

Looks great!

U fancy.  I have the frame from an old trampoline and some plastic.

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

12z mex mins for Sun AM

That 42 for PWM could translate to a frost for me.  I usually run 3-4° cooler on rad nights. 

Too close for comfort. We have a s-load of flowers and seedlings that are slated for sale.  Looks like we'll be covering them.

Sheet mulching the (non GYX obs) grass we have left out back and making a mini greenhouse before spring so won't be an issue next year.

5 hours ago, dendrite said:

The red dong of d3 expands

Remind me please... what are you at since 8/1 (12z cococrahs)?

1 hour ago, ineedsnow said:

getting close to a frost Sat night.. hopefully we cool a bit more

Saturday Night

Mostly clear, with a low around 37. Calm wind.

I've had frost at 37° plenty of times.  You can, too.  Believe!

3 hours ago, kdxken said:

Today was likely the last hurray. One day taste of summer.

Yep. 

Kids rode some awesome surf at the beach, wifey cut/bouquet'd/harvested/canned.

Mini splits kept the coc rockin'. 

Even gave the snow stake a little string trim. 

About to crush an outdoor shower.  And a J.  Telescoping alligator clip ftw.

Getting it all in, now, as we continue to step down.

65/63

15 minutes ago, dendrite said:

Gene and I got skunked

0.87” going back to July now

Brutal.  Pretty rare I get bailed out on the coast and you get split.  Stratus looks around 0.60", which is more than I've had since 8/1.  I'll take it. 

Shit, I would've taken the 0.32 or whatever Lava meh'd!

23 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

please.

I'd give my left fin for 1.8"