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I know I adapted quite nicely when I lived out there.

Yeah it's pretty nasty. I cut it back late winter, but the puckerbrush is spilling over some of the alder branches to form a nice wall.

I was thinking hickory as a possibility too, but I'm trying to remember what its flowers looked like in the spring. I guess I don't take enough pictures of my yard.

Watch it not even be ash.

Looks like I need to figure out how many leaflets per leaf.

Probably the closest looking leaves that I've found so far. The (alleged) ash on my back property line is at least 30 ft tall. So it's a healthy tree and I would love to know for sure what it is. My main goal is to find something to replace all the jewelweed that grows in there. I want to go native like cardinal flower.

I've been using iSeek but I may try that one too.

I'm trying to ID what's in my bottomland/swampy area first to see what I want to keep, and second to see what might match well with it for planting. So far I think I've got smooth alder (my best guess because their leaves are not as serrated as other species, have a ton of this), southern arrowwood (I can only find one of these), there is a type of willow but I have yet to pin down the species (more of a shrub than a tree at this point). All make sense for a wet area. I'm pretty sure about 25 yard back in the thicket is an ash tree. I would love to figure out which type (especially if I can do anything to keep the EAB away). I'll probably have to wait until fall to get back in there though and ID some of the trees on the back edge of the property. It's just too thick for me to get through currently.

Probably going to get clipped by a midnight low tonight, but so far the low is 77 and would be a new record.

Ditto for PWM unless they slipped to 76 at one point. Heavy, heavy install.

I have CON at 74. Going to be toasty at 2 am.

I'm guessing if you check after a string of near 70 lows then it will be near #1, but overall this week has been pretty normal up until these last 48 hours.

You know how it goes, top 5-10 is really 10-15. BTV and CAR have been hot but so far running 3rd hottest at both.

ASH hitting heat advisory criteria before just about everyone in the region.

It's a pretty common rule of thumb for high temps on well mixed days (which can go awry with high dews at times). Add 10 degrees to your 10 AM temp and that's approximately your expected high.

Time to go back and recalculate what I could've been. Edit: Looks like I was TOO consistent. New method only drops my best run to 9.5.

Don't tempt me.

No phone call from AOMC yet. I might have to dial them and let them know.

Somebody check on @dendrite, CON just reported 32/M02. It's a very dry heat.

That's my problem, I'll have a hard time getting back there so it will need to be fairly self sufficient. I also have half a mind to pick some favorite ideas and try and start as seed and transplant early on and see what happens. Then I won't be out much money if it doesn't work out. I could easily do that with my maples when they put down seed.

I've taken to lining those up like a putt with my PW/52 (if it's a real tight pin maybe the 56 or 60) and getting the heel off the ground. So I just stroke it like I would a putt for distance and it pops out really consistent. I change the club based on the distance to the pin.

I'm really shaky. I'm struggling with partial shots. 95% of the time I'm long. Long is never a good place to be.

It's a tough area to figure out, because it's quite wet in the spring and can at times retain water in the winter if it's a big rainfall/snowmelt combo. But when it dries out it's dry, so the drainage I think it pretty efficient. It tends to stay moist longer because we collect all the runoff from the neighborhood. So even several days after a rain there will still be running water through the active drainage part of the area.

I think I could convince my wife to get a family membership at a place like Falmouth (ME) because they have tennis and a pool. Great for kids! I'd say I'm 75% of the way to convince her already.

I'm in the midst of thinking about how to finish off parts of my yard. I have a swampy area that ideally would be populated by more interesting plants than currently growing there. Thinking of trying to get something like cardinal flower growing in there. Ideally I'd love to put something like quaking aspen or tamarack in there to add to the interest in the fall/winter mixed in with the alder already growing. But I'm also trying to hedge off the swap from the lawn by low shrubs. I'm think some swamp azalea would probably do well, and maybe a shadblow serviceberry or two. They would frame my Henry Hicks magnolia I just planted this season. Down the side of the house the swamp becomes a drainage ditch, and I think I'd like to add a wall along that (won't be retaining just decorative). That will frame the wildflower bed nicely I think and give me a convenient place to manage the weeds in the ditch from.