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Not when a groundhog eats all your early plantings so you plant more in July. Picking 3-5 cucumbers every day now, and to my surprise we'll have enough for pickling. The dews did manage to claim an unlikely victim this year - about 25 heads of garlic had to go straight to the compost. After drying we stored them in an area of the basement that was not getting enough airflow from the dehumidifier. Sucks, but we salvaged about 20 heads. Enough to last until early Spring, but not the full time until next years harvest. The more lawn we turn into plant-able soil each year, the less impact these (what I consider to be) preventable mishaps have. We sheet-mulched an additional 100 square feet of lawn in August, which will be ready to plant into in the Spring. Plan is to do another 100 next summer for 2025 planting. Less useless lawn and more food, flowers, and other native plants - not for everyone but that's the name of the game for us. One of these days I'll post pictures of the 5 year transformation, but they really don't do it justice.

Ha - should be gone already. Truck will be good for intimidating tourists out of the crosswalks, though.

Was that Chris or Andrew? I grew up with Chris.

We had super hard water at my house in Sturbridge from all the calcium runoff from the mass pike. Dishwashers, washing machines, plumbing fixtures etc would all rust out within 3-5 years.

Even without the tides, Commercial St will flood when we get rates like that. All the water flowing down the hill, plus the storm drains get overwhelmed and water will push up and through the manhole covers. Add in the tides and you've got a real mess.

Picked up over an inch in an hour between 1020-1120. Surprised no FFW was issued. Surely Commercial St in PWM in under water.

One possible cause of night sweats in men is low testosterone, which you might be trying to solve for with constant air conditioning. No need for you two to fear - a simple blood test can tell you whether or not you have low T. 72/63 PC

Oakholm? Great place. Childhood acquaintance owns/operates. Hope you enjoy(ed). Cheers.

Fascinating. Thanks for the explanation.

Looks like the radar keeps filling in over eastern NH, but is dry west of the Whites. Is this because there's an easterly fetch happening?

Did you get that freeze in May?

sounds like you're getting a bug and should take a personal day. In all seriousness the weekend doesn't look like a washout. GFS has all the precip on Friday, and both it and the Euro clear out the precip for Saturday. Euro keeps some lingering on Sunday.

Not surprised. Sebago the last several years is also sitting at 80+ this time of year. Had to have been right around 72 when I was there yesterday.

You get used to it. A few of the beaches around here will hit upper 60s some summers. Even then, I'll swim into early October.

See when you live in Maine all you need to do is take a swim in the ocean and boom you've accomplished both.

All Uninstalled. RIP dews 6/29 - 8/19 2023.

I didn't call anyone an idiot.

always laugh when i see people letting their irrigation run while it's raining out. America!

Gyx & Box

Thanks. With regard to the bolded..... Someone asked why Chinese food was being posted, so I explained the backstory. I don't care what or how he posts about the weather. When he makes definitive statements, and those doesn't pan out, it's entertaining to highlight it with actual data. I cannot speak to Kevin's intentions when he posted what he did, and I would also like to assume it wasn't coming from a place of hate or even intending to be inflammatory. Maybe he was only projecting stereotypes to get a laugh. OK, but stereotypes are the literal foundation of racism - what's where it manifests from. Allowing stereotypes to go unchecked - and even worse, allowing it to be passed off as "humorous" - is the problem.

Here's the cliff notes. Back in June, someone posted a picture of their friend, appearing to be of Asian descent, enjoying a nice evening outside. @Damage In Tolland makes two racist comments about said friend, in two separate posts. I call him out for making racist comments. Posts are deleted by a moderator. Fast Forward to Tuesday..... I post a surface analysis map refuting DITs claims that a warm front was going to make it into central MA. DIT, presumably butthurt, randomly starts posting about getting Chinese food for dinner. What you saw on Tuesday was DIT passively posting about getting called out for his blatant racism two months after the fact, completely unprovoked. Instead of just acknowledging it directly, this loser doubled down.

What a great story. Congratulations.

Cool. Stop pussyfooting around. You're butthurt that I called you out for being a blatant racist. Take the loss and try not being as shitty moving forward. 65/64 RN 0/12" in the stratus.