Brewbeer

farmer's almanac sez cold snowy winter in the northeast incoming:

I'm curious how long did it take using the glass bowl? I've tried this too and while it's entertaining to watch them fly and bump into the bowl, some of them figured out how to get out and I eventually gave up.

I do need to do something. Every time I get stung by yellow jackets, the reaction gets worse. Last time I was only stung twice, arm and ankle, but the next day it was very swollen and painful to walk. When it happens it's bad because I have a walk behind mower and can't just zoom over the hole like a ride-on tractor can.

So I've tried just about every method mentioned except for flaming gasoline with mixed results. Toxic spray (doesn't work if you can't soak the nest), drowning them by running a hose (my soil is too sandy), piles of ice cubes on the entrance (they melt), piled up soil (they can dig around) So I ended up trying something new: jamming a dozen mothballs in the entrance hole and letting them roll down into the nest. before trying this, the nest was very active, I was counting one takeoff/landing every second or two. After a few days of moth balls, it's down to one takeoff/landing every 10-15 seconds. Gonna keep an eye on things and see how this goes.

for me, it's 3-4 days, day 2 seems to be the worst

Ran over one in my front yard 2 weeks ago and got stung. Just found the entrance while mowing today, fortunately they didn’t find me. Large unmowed patch in the middle of the front yard. Will deal with them tonight when it cools off.

I'd ski that ^, looks great

I remember my parents getting their first air conditioned car in the mid 1970s, before that, there was no AC in most cars. Before cars with AC I remember they had front driver and passenger footwell vents that would blow dust and dirt into the cabin when you opened them at speed.

nice cage, I need to do something like that, the birds and chipmunks get 99% of the berries off my two bushes. Does it work to leep out the chipmunks too ?

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Connecticut River at Thompsonville CT hit 17.8 feet on August 30, 2011. Ten days later on September 9 it reached 16 feet:

Agree, just posting that diurnal variations of water temps are real. I would expect the river to have lower daily variation since it is probably better mixed from being a flowing body of water, and since there are trees lining the river, it doesn't get as much sun as the ocean

there is diurnal variation in the Connecticut River too:

I pulled my boat out

91/71. both ACs running.

2 inches here, sun is out now, but more clouds bubbling upwind. 75/73

Put mine in today.

Cool and wet incoming for WNE, might not need to install until July !

same here, been cool at night. looking like my installs won't be happening until next week at the earliest

10-day forecast looks like no installs necessary until mid month at the earliest

Just did the 3rd mow of the season. Getting dry in some areas, will be turning on the irrigation system.

May was good: and that was with 2 bad optimizers: But not as good as covid May 2020:

Springfield is on an oil pipeline that runs between Westover ARB and the Connecticut coast and has bulk handling and loading facilities. I almost always buy gas close to Springfield.

Absolutely dumping here rn