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8 hours ago, dryslot said:

I think it was Becks dark, You have to have some very bad things happen to sink a pontoon boat.

i've seen it happen in person. 2 primary factors: excessive amounts of beer; and excessive amounts of people on the boat. talking 2-3x capacity.

the other way it can happen: pontoon falls off. i've not seen that happen

Spent a couple hours yesterday cleaning up leaves, yard looked great for about 5 minutes. got home from work today, and there’s 2x as many as there were 2 days ago,. it’s that time of year. Upcoming storm will bring ‘em down

yesterday on FB, NWS BOX posted a rainfall map with totals at the MA/NH border around 1.5-2.0”. around the same time, NWS GYX posted a rainfall map with totals at the MA/NH border around 0.25”. it must have been pretty crazy, seeing that gradient on the models. Hard to believe that the state line can stop qpf like that!

Seriously, though, GYX and BOX need to coordinate more. that is just not a good look

42 minutes ago, dendrite said:

GFS and Euro are a solid tenth here. 

stay safe, make sure you protect your chickens from the 15mph wind gusts.

3 hours ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

I couldn’t find the time nor the weather to aerate and seed. Is it too late to do it in Oct?

it's a bit on the late side, but you will be fine. you may not see immediate results this year so late in the season, but it will help in the spring for sure.

seems to be happening quick. lots of leaves came down last night and today.

acorn disaster in progress. i had a lot 2 or 3 years ago, this years bounty looks like 2 or 3 times that. 

10 hours ago, #NoPoles said:

Currently 650pm and my heat index is holding steady at 100. Had a high of 99 on mon or tues, today we hit 98...puts our heat index 105-107

f***-that.

i had a cheap midnite high of 67 yesterday. TORCH!

1 hour ago, wxeyeNH said:

What's it going to do in Philly?

have a cheesesteak, maybe throw some batteries at Santa. What else is there to do in philly?

On 9/8/2019 at 8:24 PM, OceanStWx said:

I mean I don't think it counts if I only lived through Scooter running naked through the streets does it?

I could add the 10/18/09 snow at Foxboro coupled with the 59-0 thrashing of Tennessee.

that event was definitely an interesting one. i was in MHT that day and it was raining with some occassional flakes mixed in. got home and flipped on the Pats game and couldn't believe how hard it was snowing (plus the score!)

23 minutes ago, moneypitmike said:

Another cool night.  When is the September torch supposed to begin again?

mid-August was the call I believe.

On 8/31/2019 at 8:25 AM, moneypitmike said:

I'm planning to overseed this weekend.  To be sure I have the steps right....

1) mow today a low setting (bagging not mulching)

2) seed/starter

3) do I need to rake for overseeding?  Can' really see what's taking place with existing grass.

4) water

5) for overseeding, how long do you wait before you mow again?

 

Thanks for confirming/redirecting any of the steps above.

 

 

You need to get the seed to contact the soil. Just spreading it on top of the grass will be a waste of time and money. Aerate, or dethatch at a minimum.

36 minutes ago, amarshall said:

I have a lawn treatment service now. This used to be a bad grub area.  

There's some old lawn in there from the previous owner but all of my new lawn was seeded with lesco sun & shade park.  I changed the irrigation to 5am now. 

if you grab the dead grass/turf, can you pull it back, like down to the dirt?

stick a shovel in the ground. if you see a lot of rice krispies in the dirt, you still got grubs.

7 minutes ago, dryslot said:

That winter sucked.

suppression depression

32 minutes ago, USCAPEWEATHERAF said:

Area of showers and storms to my southwest, look to impact the Cape and Islands by midday, could become severe ass dew points are in the 70s here already.  We have mostly sunny skies.

severe ass indeed

35 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Just let em stay. They won’t sting 

yup. unless you are poking the nest with a stick, they are fairly docile. keep the kids away obviously

On 8/17/2019 at 12:19 PM, dendrite said:

So you like the Hankooks? I'm looking for something all-season and keep bouncing between the less expensive Firestone LE 2 and the pricier Michelin Defender LTX M/S. The truck is an 09 and pushing 180k so maybe the more expensive tire isn't even worth it.

Go with the Michelin’s. The Defender LTX is the best tire I ever bought for my truck, and it’s not even close. Very quiet, great in crappy road conditions. Sure they aren’t cheap, but worth the extra coin

cut low (~2-2.5"), rake/dethatch if needed, plug aerate, seed. Then take 2 weeks off from mowing. if you want to do a true overseed, then renting a slit seeder is the way to go. it's hard work, as the machine is quite heavy.

MPM, I always do my overseeding Labor day weekend. gives several weeks with decent temps for the grass to grow, and several weeks until leaf pickup season begins.

Tblizz, azaleas are very sun-friendly. i have a couple that see full sun all day long. they are bedded in about 6" of loam on top of 2-3' of sand. my guess is that either yours are diseased, or they just didn't "take" when they were planted.

48 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

well let's set some expectations here...

2) Torrential downpours and flash flooding is probably maybe the greatest threat today 

 

you sound so confident

27 minutes ago, dendrite said:

CON will be 0 for 6 on AN days to start August.

CON is not SNE, nor is it NNE.

so is it N-SNE, or S-NNE?

9 minutes ago, NorEastermass128 said:

It’s hot out. Let’s just enjoy it for what it is and stop with the silly semantics. 

Because in just about 6 more weeks, we’ll be tracking the cryosphere again. 

1,000,000,000% agree with the bolded.

maybe someday we will realize that this is a regional subforum, and that the weather at our nearby climo station may not be the same as the weather at theirs. but we are hot and dewy, so you must be as well.

flamethrower

regarding Dendy's bees, you would know if they were yellow jackets, as you would have been stung by now. nasty little f-ers. there is another ground bee that I have recently seen that burrows into the ground and builds their nest in sandy soil. you can tell by the piles of sand next to the holes. there are likely a lot of them, but they are very docile. sand wasps

sounds like Jimmy found dryslot's stash.