gravitylover

I dunno, I thought it was kinda nice yesterday. I am tired of this grey stuff, I was hoping for a brighter couple of days before the Thurs/Fri gloom sets in.

Nice fog this morning. Another day the garden won't need much watering.

Yeah northern NH is spotty in the snowfall dept but strong in the wintry dept. Like much of the north country it can start early and it can run quite late. It's guaranteed to have an unpleasantly cold/icy/mixed up mess period but you'll for sure get your dose of winter every year. You'll also get a couple of bonus seasons - mud season and black fly season that aren't much of a thing down here.

Littleton NH is a hidden gem It's misty out there, it has that kind of eerie B movie feel to it.

Doesn't look like a water temp pattern that would promote much for tropical storm development or even movement this far north.

Looks like .55 here.

I've had a good soaking rain for a while now and it looks like it's going to continue. This ought to set the growth of pretty much everything on fire!

See and I think you have a problem. Well, maybe more than one but your warm fetish is disturbing

Yeah there was a rapid drying over the last three days, this wind has been very productive at the same time the trees (finally) went to town and greened up. Trails in the hills around Danbury are turning dusty in spots already with almost no mud left (which is nice). Yup the pollen is a thing all of a sudden too. It has been a few degrees warmer here, you should take a ride up to NW CT and go for a hike somewhere like the Norbrook Farms Brewery trails then have a fresh beer.

Nah, saves on the AC $$.

My mom was 7 months pregnant with me in July 66, they lived on the 8th floor of a building with no AC across the street from Brooklyn College. She complained about that summer for many years...

It's surprisingly dry in the woods all of a sudden.

I still have mud and the ground is wet right to the surface except where it drains well AND gets hours of direct sun. With the super slow leaf out the trees didn't do their usual thing and suck the ground dry.

This is the third or fourth great bird year here. Considering how flying insect and bird populations are decreasing elsewhere I'm seeing exactly the opposite.

Nobody but us knows "what it could have been", all they know is it's not really warm yet and sort of fits the melancholy mood that permeates life in the metro area at the moment. I'm good with no 90's for the whole year if you want the truth, I just don't want another wet one. Wet enough that the garden does well but dry enough to keep the skeeter population in check because there's limited standing water for them to breed in.

Uggh. I'd be ok with a dry year for a change, the last 2 were wet enough to last me a while.

Is it really going to rain 4 out of 5 days next week? Yuck...

I got whacked good. I was outside appreciating all the newly planted goodies and what is going in tomorrow when the wind started. The treetops started rustling and it was nice then boom leaning hard and the wind worked down to the ground in a few seconds. The patio chairs started lifting as I threw the grill cover on. I grabbed the chairs from the fence, stacked 'em and ran inside soaked. The first one was hard and short without being terribly wet, the second line is super heavy rain without the strong winds.

^ That would suck.

I don't. I'll try to pay more attention and let you know.

Without it we'd be mired in ankle deep goo.

No we don't. Water levels are high, soil moisture is high, soil temps are cool for the time of year and the flora needs a dry warm(ish) week to really fill in. Many creeks and small rivers are running high and a 3+ incher would flood a lot of vulnerable areas.

Alright I'm calling it after tonight, no more frosts or freezes and the 70 or so seedlings and plants ready to go clogging up my sunroom are going out to the garden tomorrow. The last seed potatoes are going in today though.

Anecdotally, from mt bikers, it's worse than recent years but I've yet to pick one up myself.

Yup that's what I'm thinking too. I forgot to cover one bed the other day and lost my string beans and Hungarian wax hot peppers I'm excited about my potatoes, I built a potato box and all 3 that I planted in there are happening so I built 2 more and will be filling them with soil today. We should end up with more potatoes than we can eat if all goes right. Heh, now I know right where you're at. Was that big storm Floyd in 1999? Most spots east of the river got over 10" and along the higher terrain was 13+. Fahnestock recorded 14.5 and a reliable station that used to be on Quaker Hill in Patterson/ Pawling showed just under 17.