Juliancolton

I'm sure the aquifer is still running fine i(u?)mby but I'll never know. Ye olde 8-foot pit FTL.

As is tradition. I've run it dry three out of the last three years and I've finally learned my lesson. No real help from Cristobal it appears.

Pick one for today's water allocation: 1) top off the pool, 2) water the gardens and do laundry, 3) pressure wash the patio

I almost stepped on a milk yesterday. The old mnemonic proved helpful: "black on yellow, you're a dead fel-- no, red on black-- wait, red, yellow... Jack's a dead fellow... but was it yellow on--?" and by the time you remember the doggone thing, the snake's long gone.

About ten feet away... closer than the length of my truck. It wasn't showing any signs of aggression, so I figured best thing to do was just let it satisfy its curiosity. Definitely caught me at a disadvantage though if it weren't in such a good mood.

It's been a banner year for wildlife in my yard. The place is lousy with snakes, more than I've ever seen. Families of possums, skunks, foxes, and raccoons hanging around. Beavers and otters cavorting in the pond. Earlier this week I was taking star pictures in my driveway and had a black bear walk over to see what I was up to. We coexisted peacefully for a bit until it made a bee-line for the garbage bin, then I shooed it off.

Yeah, there's a trade-off though as plants respond more vigorously to rain water vs. well or tap water. Rain has the benefit of natural nitrates, especially when accompanied by nitrogen-fixing lightning, as well as trace micronutrients picked up on the way down. Poor man's fertilizer. It also avoids the nasty salts delivered by softened water. You can sort of work around the latter handicap by testing and improving your soil's cation exchange capacity but I start to lose my bearings when delving that deep into the chemistry side of things.

The cucumber beetles came out with guns blazing this week so they've been my main adversary as of late. Also probably gonna need to copper fungicide my maters after this soupy weather. Love spending 500 man-hours and $1500 to grow $73 worth of produce.

Overwatering wouldn't cause instant death like that unless the garden were literally submerged... you'd see yellowing and then stunted growth over the course of days and weeks. It's definitely toasty out but nothing we haven't seen yet, so it's also difficult to envision the brassicas just up and dying from heat without bolting first. Got any pix? What you describe is unfortunately consistent with cutworm activity. They feed at night, and the plants start wilting severely and suddenly on the next sunny day. Hopefully it's something else.

You're in a slightly better spot than me, but still not sure I would bank on nature's irrigation today if things are dry. We 0.04" probably. While the NAM is wet, check out the disparity between simu-radar and actual radar valid at 9 am. Abysmal.

2.56" here according to the tipper, grain of salt applied.

35 for a low. Nice job there by the GFS.

Not very much wiggle room at all in terms of frost tomorrow morning. Welcome to June.

76/71. My PWS may be a hair dewy but not by much if POU is at 70 and SWF 72. Gross!

From the "it could be worse" files, 97F in Montreal.

But yeah, I'm installing today. This sucks.

I was talking to my dad on the phone yesterday and complaining about how the heat was making yard and housework so strenuous. "What are you talking about, this weather is beautiful!", he said from his air conditioned office where he arrived in the pre-dawn and spent the rest of the day...

84/68, oppressive

I know almost nothing of the Whites except for the stuff that my photography friends post. Biggest criteria are mountain views, no major population centers due south (Milky Way) or due north (auroras), good radiating track record, and no blatant snow hole. That last criterion is probably the most flexible... as long as it's wintry, who can tell the difference between 80" and 120" over 7 months?

Yup. The mountains are calling and we must go.

Well I hope you all enjoyed your 30 hours of spring between frost yesterday morning and 80s with dews now. It's always such an idyllic season, but time to move on at long last.

The HV has nearly twice the relative available ICU capacity of the other two redlit regions. It's a different ballgame once you leave the boroughs. Not sure why that isn't being recognized.

32 here. Plants are clearly not amused but should be ok. It was still dropping pretty steadily right up until after 6 am, so if sunrise were even 20 minutes later, probably a much more disappointing result.

Sweet shots! I don't make it down to the Peekskill waterfront as much as I'd like, usually just in winter for eagle watching. Down to 42 already which is a tad nerve-wracking. Sheesh.

71/37, good stuff. Low this morning was 38... hopefully we don't try to challenge that tonight. Could maybe get dicey in sheltered spots.