mattie g

Wow...already? I'll be harvesting tomatoes until at least mid-October. I want to get every last fruit off the vine that I possibly can. I have a ton of maters and jalapenos that are still maturing - I'd hazard that I'll harvest 10+ lbs of tomatoes of various variety between now and then.

Yesterday, we took out 50 sq ft of river rock that bordered one part of the patio we had put in a couple years ago and replaced it with sod. Painful process, but it looks so much cleaner now. Hopefully our kids (with the help of the neighborhood kids) don't destroy it. My hands hurt today.

Not a bad idea. Better than killing the (poor?) thing, i guess!

You should be good. Tomatoes are surprisingly tough plants, so with with root system intact they'll snap right back. A couple years ago, I had a hornworm eat through 90% of the stalk on a huge Amish Paste plant. I duct-taped a strip of old t-shirt around the wound and to try to keep moisture in and moving up the stem. I didn't really expect it to work, but the plant continues producing as if nothing had ever happened to it. HOWEVER...this year I have a squirrel who refuses to take the hint that it's not wanted. Doesn't care about my dog, does care some when I put cayenne down, but it returns as soon as the cayenne gets washed away. This is the first time I've dealt with a persistent squirrel in my tomatoes, and I'm fantasizing about putting it six feet under. Honestly...if I lived out in the country I'd have purchased an air rifle by now to off this thing.

We're totally redoing our garden area, but I only got a chance to build one of the two raised beds I'm planning on. Even so, the half-garden I planted is doing really well. I planted late, but tomatoes are really starting to fruit, so we should be in the goods within a few weeks. I just need to get the second raised bed built in time for the late-summer/fall seeding period. We've had enough rain at the right times, so the lawn is doing just fine. I rarely water it even if it really needs it, so getting the rain we have has been really nice to keep everything green and growing (though not too fast).

Frustration reigns when there are sharp cutoffs. Hell...I was annoyed watching the evening band set up 20-30 miles north of me even though it had already dropped good amounts as it came through here and left me with close to double digits. February 10, 2010 dropped 8-9” here in Burke. Had one really intense band in mid-morning, and it snowed for quite a few hours, but definitely missed out on bigger totals in my neck of the woods.

Haven’t measured depth recently, but it was well over 8” at 4:00 or so. Great spot on the deck railing.

Per usual, very much in line with my obs, though I had a little more with the WAA and less with the ULL.

Gotta love the govvie-contractor relationship/rules and how they differ from agency to agency. Thing is...my client will probably think we’re dumb when I tell them we went in.

Gotta love being a green-badger and having to go in while our client is home tomorrow. That complaint out of the way, it was a great weekend. Despite being mostly shut out in the last few hours, ended just shy of 10”. Had such a blast with the kids (6 and 16 months) today - two rounds of sledding and a lot of snow eating!

F’ing subsidence...

Meh. Was looking good for double digits up until an hour or two ago. My loss is your gain.

Haven’t measured recently, but I had 7.75 as of 3:00. Expecting I’m about done because I see being stuck in subsidence between the Montgomery County band and the one south of us. Great storm though.

I love when we get those feathery-looking radar returns that build from Charlottesville and push north. We usually do well with that <knock on wood>.

Dendrites kicking in Burke once again. These fatties accumulate so fast. Absolutely love ULL action!

This band dropped about an inch in an hour in Burke.

Fatty party in Burke

Or you would become one of the lost, drunken men...

Citra/Galaxy NEIPA made with Golden Promise and Oats. Calling it Rough and Toothless. Its Galaxy/Citra counterpart will be Tough and Ruthless. A growler to whoever gets the reference...

Thermal mass of snow is really low. When you’ve got 6 gallons or so of boiling liquid to cool, the snow doesn’t stand a chance.

@nw baltimore wx Supposed to brew today - first time in ages. Only thing stopping me is figuring out if I’m going to use the hose-to-coil chiller to cool the wort. That’s the only thing g that sucks about this storm.

Haven’t measured since a little after 7 am, but I had 5.75” as of then and have definitely gotten up to 6” total since. I’m in Burke, by the way.

Snowing lightly in Burke with similarly light returns. Looking juicy to our south and southwest.

Glad it’s meeting your expectations.

5.75” of fluff in Burke