gravitylover

Yeah me only earning a couple hundred bucks a month for 4 months now is painful, possibly even more so than the last 5 weeks of intense back pain with the first two weeks of that needing a cane to stand up and get started moving. I think the mental anguish that wakes you (me) up in the middle of the night worrying about that is a terrible thing and I don't see it going away anytime soon.

Quite the opposite here, the air is crystally clear and it was September morn' cool and calm with the birds tweeting away as happily as could be while the buzzy flying critters were pollinating the garden. If I could order up another 75 or so of these for this year I surely would.

Do you folks have any idea just how nice it is/was outside early this morning? Top 5 for the year! ...and you missed it

So this is an I80/495 special? How about the 84 corridor, do we get to look south and see the clouds or do we get to play along?

OMG it's so nice out. It's rare that I'm happy I woke up just after sunrise, I woke up started my coffee then realized what time it was so I figured I'd go sit outside and enjoy it so I wouldn't bother the fam. That was definitely the best decision I'm going to make today.

Our luck it'll come hard and fast and just run off.

JC having a rough time there. Sorry dude.

I was out mt biking yesterday and the forest is tinder dry. The season started out with great understory growth due to good moisture and a very slow start to leafout but then it dried out and that growth mostly died off quickly adding to the problem. Between that and the last few years of storms and rotted branch drops during the very wet periods we had all of the fuel on the floor from the last few years is just waiting for a spark and with the additional huge numbers of people using the woods it's just a matter of when not if.

Yeah there's no way 2020 is letting us off too easy on the weather.

Turned into a pretty nice day, breeze came up and the air dried out nicely. Woulda been nice to see some rain but it is what it is. The forest is bone dry and the creeks are more like a series of puddles.

Now that I spent over an hour watering the garden I'm almost guaranteed that today will be the day I get doused with a good t-storm.

Yeah that's just a nuisance, enough to make the grass grow so you have to mow but no other real benefit.

I've seen 1 Monarch and it flew past without stopping in my garden Bees are a rarity too. I've been hand pollinating many things this year, so far so good but that's not sustainable. I'm not sure if I was successful with the melons but I sure hope so because I have a dozen growing and I've been looking forward to them for weeks. Early on while it was still wet I had all sorts of bugs, now it's down to grubs and these things that look like centipedes but with fewer legs. The gnats and skeeters are pretty much gone since it dried out.

More than I got too. Now it's foggy and uncomfortable.

Our yard is fenced.

I was in your neighborhood yesterday and yeah, it's really dry. Heck, the corn in my yard is at least twice the size of everything up there and the gardens that looked so good 2 weeks ago don't now. The Capitol Region is even drier.

Sad because it won't happen again for 6 months or more or because you miss wave after wave of frozen goodness?

Which section of the river were you on? Essentially it runs past the bottom of the complex of hills I live on so I watch the water levels pretty closely when we're driving around. The reservoir levels are down a little bit but not all that much because the system is spring fed, it takes more than just a dry month to really bring them down significantly. If you want a fun place to check out from the water try putting in at the park in Patterson and wander around the Great Swamp between there and Pawling. That's where the water splits and runs off in two directions, south into the Croton River system and north it's the Swamp River that feeds into Tenmile River and out to the Housatonic. If I'm not mistaken it's the only place in NY where water flows out of an area into two different basins. I'm not sure how many trees might still be blocking things up after those tornadoes ripped through a couple of years ago but I know that people have been venturing back in last year and this year.

It got a little warm this afternoon but thankfully it didn't last too long. It's beautiful again now. Some rain might have been nice, things are finally starting to brown out. Of course two days ago I got a cool new electric lawn mower so I did the whole yard and now it's all burning up.

Yeah the yard is bone dry but the garden is properly hydrated. I agree, it doesn't look like it's going to be terribly wet so watering it is. Stuffy, muggy morning going on. Some of that wind from earlier in the week would be nice.

So today stays dry N/NE of the city? Trying to figure out if I water the garden this morning or not.

Yeah but when they're good they're SO good. I think my problem is going to be keeping the birds away from them and the blueberries.

Well, at least we were exceedingly wet for the last two years so how bad can it be Of course it's going to dry out significantly, I just bought a nice cordless lawn mower yesterday

Ehh, those work alright for flying pests but don't do squat for the crawley things that eat my veggies. To be honest I prefer a ring of citronella candles/torches to the electronic things because I really don't want to listen to the constant zapping (although there is some satisfaction knowing that each one is one less annoying stinging critter in the world). I had to give up on ground grown strawberries because I don't like having to spend so much time debugging and keeping the squirrels and chipmunks away from them. I have all of my strawberries and tomatoes in hanging bags now and that seems to have done the trick. So far so good and if it keeps up this way for another few weeks we are going to be swimming in fresh tomatoes and strawberries.

Yeah right, these will likely be remembered as the best weather days of the year, it would be pretty tough to beat them methinks. FYI, if you need bike work help let me know, 30 years with a wrench in my hand so I can probably handle what you need and I have a full bike repair shop in my basement from when I closed my old shop. Bring beer