magpiemaniac

It’s 70 miles from Sandy Ridge to Seagrove. We’ve seen significant temperature differences in the same day between northern Stokes and southern Randolph.

How’s everyone’s electric bill this month? Mine is horrific.

During all that rain earlier this year, I mentioned that we shouldn’t complain because we won’t be able to buy a drop by the middle of July. My most recent rain totals IMBY for July: July 17: 0.05” July 10: 0.70” July 8: 0.50” That’s it. Just 1.25” total for the month. I’ve cut down my sprinkler output. I use sprinklers to supplement nature rain. My well shouldn’t have to carry the load. We need some tropical action.

I read that DH was progressing well and would likely be ready by then.

The abrupt end to the NHL season has sort of left a “what if” feeling for me. I was growing confident that the Canes could at least earn a wildcard and then who knows what else. Ugh. I’m not optimistic that the 2019-2020 season will be resumed. And based on articles I’ve been reading, there are questions about if and how fans would be admitted into arenas and stadiums for the upcoming fall hockey and football seasons. I won’t take the simple pleasures for granted anymore.

I’m so bored lately that I’m finding myself pretty excited about the prospects of an unusually rainy week. I don’t mind 4”-5” of rain over several days. I just don’t want it all at once.

The last measurable rain I had IMBY was 0.1” on May 5. (Before that was 1.7” on April 30.) I’m reluctant to waste my well on stupid grass, but I did run the sprinklers early yesterday.

Yes, there are several providing some good information. And there are a few wasting electrons.

I assume you don’t visit the Southeastern forum during one of our (increasingly rare) winter storm threads.

The April 19th Severe Event thread is full of interlopers I’ve never seen before. It’s the weather equivalent to rubbernecking. I appreciate the insight from several of them. Others, not so much.

There’s something sort of sickening when people are almost cheering for catastrophic weather in others’ backyards just for the rubbernecking novelty of it. WTF is wrong with people? This planet has had enough crap to deal with lately. Don’t be bummed out if your tornadocalypse doesn’t pan out like you had hoped.

The covid-19 thread in the Off Topic forum disappeared. Did that thread get too rowdy while I was away? With all this leisure time, I’ve been reading and watching more news and interviews. (Kill me.) Several things I’ve noticed especially among people in their 20s and 30s: ”Super” is being used excessively as an adverb. People are now “super excited” or something is now considered “super easy”. Please stop this madness. “New normal.” Ugh. New normal is yesterday’s “seeking closure”. Inability to annunciate some T sounds in words like important or mountains. I’m hearing a lot of “em-poor-uhn” or “mao-uhns”.

Congratulations! I found some ground beef and chicken this morning. Limit of two per customer.

It seems like the Southeastern forum has been the least active regional forum lately. Our weather must really be boring. Gee, I wish we had a current event to discuss. Nothing comes to mind.

Canes chances have improved over the past week especially considering that some of the guys are waking up and a few other eastern teams are slumping. I bet some team will miss the WC2 slot on a tiebreaker. It’s going to be close.

In an effort to minimize the further spread of the covid-19 coronavirus, Coach Roy Williams plans to announce later today that the Tar Heels do not intend to participate in the NCAA tournament.

This place is quite. I guess it’s going to take a viral pandemic, alien invasion, or notable weather event to get this place buzzing again.

Shocker. I guess I’ll take 65 and rainy over 35 and rainy though.

I love lamp.

Y’all have been needing some rain down there, haven’t you? Hope you get it. It’s easy to forget that our friends just a couple of states over can be experiencing the opposite weatherwise. I know that south Texas has been really dry. That’s why I tell myself not to complain about my rice paddy lawn. We’ll miss the rain later in the year when we can’t buy a drop.

“Little pink houses for you and me...”

You can see the leeward screw job on full display here. NW Piedmont did better than expected.

My new 22kw generator has passed inspection and is going online this morning. Severe weather season may commence now.