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Post by Phalon on May 24, 2022 5:00:22 GMT -6
A little warmer here this morning than it was yesterday - yesterday, it was a see-your-breath 41 degrees; this morning it's up to 47F. Cool for nearing the end of May, but the 28th has always been our last median frost date.
I started in earnest getting the gardens weeded and mulched this weekend - sort of. In earnest was my plan, but got to gabbing with the neighbors and any plans to get down and dirty kind of went out the window....especially after they gave me a giant piece of the best cheesecake I ever ate. OMG. Thud. No work of any kind was accomplished after eating it.
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Post by stepper on May 29, 2022 9:28:14 GMT -6
May 14 through the 21st it was in the upper 90s, like 97-99, with the 17th and 18th reached 100, but on the 21st at night a rainstorm went through and for next few days the temps were in the upper 80s. Friday and Saturday were back in the upper 97s. Wanna trade?
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Post by Phalon on Jun 1, 2022 4:39:42 GMT -6
Thanks for the offer, but I will have to decline. The last three days here were near 90 - a 30 degree jump from the previous day. The outside thermometer read 89F yesterday afternoon. We had a bit of a thunderstorm early this morning, and as predicted the temperature plummeted. Today's high is only supposed to be in the 60s.
Just a little continuity would be nice, I'm thinking. Somewhere in-between the 60s and 80s, without the drastic changes. My sinuses would be grateful.
Despite the heat, I got a lot of gardening done at home - all my plants are potted; I did 17 pots total, down from previous years, but BP has confiscated a lot of my pots for her apartment plants. Hubs got the tomatoes planted - we haven't even planted beans or lettuce yet. There is still so much to do in the gardens, don't know when we'll find time to do it.
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Post by stepper on Jun 1, 2022 6:01:02 GMT -6
We've been consistently in the 90s, but they're guessing at 100s for this weekend. I didn't do a garden at all this year. Things got a bit busy and crazy, and all of a sudden it was too late. I guess I'll work on the rose bed some, and I bought Steppet a red Lantana for a spot next to the garage - that'll go in today. Then it's back to work. I had Dr appointments so I took an extended vaca over Memorial Day weekend.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 1, 2022 13:58:13 GMT -6
It’s 85F, feels like 91F. Most of the nighttime temps are in the 60s, but a couple of nights are in the 50s. So, a little relief from the day’s heat.
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Post by stepper on Jun 5, 2022 10:24:04 GMT -6
Even here, this is not how you want the season to start up.
Mon 06 106° Tue 07 105° Wed 08 102° Thu 09 102° Fri 10 104° Sat 11 105° Sun 12 106° Mon 13 104° Tue 14 103° Wed 15 101° Thu 16 100° Fri 17 101° Sat 18 101° Sun 19 101°
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 5, 2022 12:04:08 GMT -6
I blame volcanoes for “global warming.” There are a lot of active volcanoes at the moment, and a lot of magma below the surface. Some of it is under the seas. And nothing can be done to stop it. All we are able to do is wait for them to cool down and go back to sleep. Now, I have no doubt that pollution is making it worse, and something should definitely be done about it.
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Post by stepper on Jun 6, 2022 18:50:00 GMT -6
I blame politicians for global warming as a result of all the hot air they produce, and they simultaneously generate tons of air pollution.
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Post by Phalon on Jun 7, 2022 5:05:37 GMT -6
There was a member here a long time ago from Texas who I remember saying that lantana was a perennial there, that grew big like a fairly large bush. Here it's just an annual, mostly planted in pots.
If I could bottle up the weather here for the past three days, I'd ship it off to whoever needed it - it's been what I'd consider the perfect start to summer (though I'm sure the beach-goers would disagree). Lows in the fifties, and highs in the 60s and low 70s. A mix of sun and overcast skies, with the lake breeze that's still frigid, made the need for the occasional light jacket necessary, but it was overall very pleasant weather. I'd even throw in the overnight weather - last night we had a nice, gentle rain that lasted until about an hour ago (3/4 of an inch total). Oh, and as a bonus, in that bottle of perfect weather, I'd include this morning's weather - my favorite kind of summer morning (though maybe a bit cool to be considered summer - it's only 53F) - a very heavy Lake fog has rolled in. I love a foggy morning!
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 7, 2022 15:55:05 GMT -6
Next week, the days are predicted to be in the 90s, and the nights to be in the 70s. Soon, the nights will be just as hot as the days. Oh, joy.
I am babysitting my niece’s kitten. She’s a demon from hell. I have scratches everywhere. She loves to attack my face most of all. I explain that people don’t fight with their faces, but she will not have it. She will pretend to be moving in for a cuddle, and then last second goes for the attack. I’ve been pretty good about catching her just before she hits my face, but I do have a few scratches where she caught me off guard. I have a punctured bottom lip from one of her fangs. Her visit is half over. We still have far too many days left to go. Each day she gets more and more confident, and destructive. She refuses to leave plugged in cords alone. Sometimes she’s touching me when she does it. I tell her she isn’t allowed to take me with her. I’ll catch her hiding and staring at me fiercely. I think she’s plotting my demise. — She hates for my attention to be anywhere but on her. And now she’s demanding to be fed. I better get to it if I don’t want to end up being the meal.
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Post by Phalon on Jun 8, 2022 4:41:54 GMT -6
Kittens!!! So cute. And so, so sweet. Pfft and HA!
I've been awake since 3:10am. Hellfire B!tch did not wake me up, but she woke me fully so I could not get back to sleep. She does this weird thing with my hair, burrowing into it, and literally laying across my head with her face in my ear, motoring running loudly. Push her off, turn over on my back, and pull the blanket over my head. Then she kneads bread on my back - which with every other cat we've had, has been a free massage. With Hellfire B!tch it's torturous pain - she kneads with her claws out. Push her off again, and thankfully she moves on to Hubs. And then he's wide awake. Share the joy. Closing the bedroom door to keep her out doesn't work - in her life before coming to live with us, as a kitten she was kept in a closed bathroom during the day, and as a result she hates closed doors. She'll yowl and scratch at the door nonstop until one of us relents, and opens it. Ah, the things we do for our pets.
We did get out of watching BP and the Leech's Beast Cat and his Sister Cat this past weekend though. Little Beastie/Hellfire B!tch has her quirks, but she is very sweet in her own beastie way. The Beast is just bad....and stays up all night figuring out how to be as bad as possible. Knocking over stuff, breaking stuff, getting into cabinets and dragging stuff out of them, and basically destroying everything he can get his paws on. The kids' plans fell through though, and we....and the house were spared.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 8, 2022 13:26:58 GMT -6
She’s one of my feral cat’s kittens. My sister’s dog found it in the barn and cornered it. The dog is a Yorkie. My niece brought it to me to put on my back porch after she found the litter had been moved. The feral cats ate what I had put out, but no one cared about the crying kitten in the small dish tub. So my niece took her home. Her plan was to bring her back when she was older, and fixed, to rejoin her siblings. But she has fallen in love with her, so unless the demon spawn turns love to hate, I guess she’ll be keeping her. She has no name yet, and I don’t call her by any name, other than Demon. I’ve also been calling her “you little f**ker” of late too. She was dropped off last Wednesday, and I was told they would be gone for eleven days. They left the next morning, so should be back on Monday. Not sure either of us can survive until then. I’ve been giving her time outs in the pet carrier I had put up in my garage. It’s that, or I ring her neck. I think I understand why she wasn’t moved with her siblings.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 12, 2022 13:42:07 GMT -6
It’s 94F, feels like 110F. Supposed to be 100F tomorrow, and a couple other times this week. The rest of the week is in the 90s. Oh joy.
The kitten went home around 1:30am last night. And the scratches on my legs are itching like crazy. Before I realized why I was scratching, I made one bleed. And then I knew. Oops. Just gotta suffer until they heal.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 13, 2022 13:23:19 GMT -6
It’s 97F, feels like 110F. Supposed to get up to 99F soon. I wonder what August and September are going to bring?
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Post by Phalon on Jun 14, 2022 4:26:05 GMT -6
Glad to hear both you and the Demonette survived her visit. Sounded like it was quite the harrowing adventure in patience.
I've given up on weather forecasts - for the past few weeks they've all been so vastly different, it's impossible to know what the temperature is going to be because the forecasts are 10-15 degrees apart. Today, for example, it's either supposed to be in the mid-eighties, the high eighties to low nineties, or 99F. Quite a difference in temperatures between the forecasts. If any of them are right though, it'll be much hotter than it has been.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 15, 2022 15:12:08 GMT -6
There are predictions that it will cool down slightly in a few days. Yeah. Low 90s this weekend. Then in the 100s most of next week. 70s at night, with a couple of nights in the 60s. Hopefully August and September will be cooler this year. Dog days of Summer being all Summer will be a bummer.
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Post by Mini Mia on Jun 20, 2022 15:03:39 GMT -6
It’s 93F, and feels like 93F. All of the 100s predictions are now in the 90s. Hopefully, the humidity will stay low. The humidity is the worst part about the Summer heat.
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Post by Joxcenia on Feb 16, 2023 17:18:36 GMT -6
The temps got up to the mid-70s yesterday, and today the peepers are croaking, even though the wind is frigid. It’s cloudy, with temperatures in the 50s. It’s amazing how fast the seasons can change from one day to the next.
Be back in May.
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Post by stepper on Feb 19, 2023 21:19:31 GMT -6
My red maple is shedding "noses" like a February snow flake fest.
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Post by Joxcenia on Feb 20, 2023 3:02:22 GMT -6
Is that the same as "helicopters?" That's what we call the seeds that whirl around and around on their way to the ground.
Tonight's Lows: 50 M: 67/43 T: 61/43 W: 72/63 T: 70/32 <--- I really hate when the temperatures drop so drastically like that. Kills my sinuses. F: 49/41 S: 57/48 S: 63/47 M: 60/42 T: 55/40
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Post by stepper on Feb 25, 2023 7:54:36 GMT -6
Yes, noses and helicopters are the same thing. When I was young we'd peel open the seed pod side and stick it on the end of our nose - sort of a green Pinocchio. Spring has sprung here. The Blue Bonnets are showing up even though it's nearly a month early for them. The weather guessers are concerned that we might have another freeze sometime during March and that would be bad for all the early flowers and fruit trees that are starting to bloom. On top of which, we're still experiencing drought conditions. Not a good combination at all.
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Post by Phalon on Feb 26, 2023 8:34:51 GMT -6
Like Joxie, we've always called them helicopters, and also samaras. From customers at the nursery, I've heard whirligigs (and twirligigs), keys, winged seeds, and probably other words to describe the way they twirl when they fall. Never heard "noses" before though - I wonder if putting the seeds on your noses was just a game your family used to play, or is a common (perhaps even regional) thing, like dandelion chains and whatnot.
And I wonder what people used to commonly call them before helicopters were invented.
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Post by stepper on Feb 26, 2023 10:51:50 GMT -6
I suspect 'whirligig' and 'helicopter' came about at nearly the same time. I've heard both at some point in time. I don't think 'nose' was a family thing so much as it was just a little kids being silly thing. Time to commit to working on taxes. Not my favorite thing to do at all. We'll be getting back almost a grand less this year because Steppet won so much playing the lottery. She had a good year!
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Post by Phalon on Feb 27, 2023 12:30:58 GMT -6
I've not heard of that - and my brothers and I when we were kids probably tried every silly thing mentioned in the Kid's Handbook of Weird Sh!t Kids Do, so you know I had to drill. I didn't find any article that it was mentioned in, but there are plenty of pictures of kids with maple helicopters stuck on their noses! I am soooo going to have to try that when the helicopters start dropping! Apparently, I never outgrew some of the Weird Sh!t Kids Do, yanno.
Firstly, congratulations to Steppette on her lottery winnings! Secondly, taxes - Blah! I've got our appointment scheduled late this week, and I am dreading it. My nephew graduated high-school this past year, and has started in on using his college education fund, which I have to claim as income. BP's still using hers, so it's a double whammy. I can't wait to be done with managing these funds for the kids; such a pain in my @ss. BP, I think, will probably run through what's remaining in her account this coming year, though I honestly don't think she'll finish her degree (even though she's an A student), because she doesn't want to have to take out student loans once her portion of my brother's inheritance is gone.
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Post by Joxcenia on Feb 27, 2023 23:07:16 GMT -6
I keep putting off taxes. I'm determined to get it all sorted out before April.
Today the high temps got up to the mid-70s. My house got up to 77F, but the high winds and rain kept the house on the cool side. I will probably need the a/c soon though.
T: 67 / 50 W: 72 / 49 -- PM Thunderstorms T: 62 / 55 -- PM Rain F: 56 / 37 -- AM Rain / Wind S: 54 / 34 S: 58 / 42 M: 67 / 51 T: 65 / 54 -- Showers W: 60 / 44 -- Showers
It is 57F outside right now, and 75F inside. February is usually on the warm side, and then March gets frigid again.
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Post by Joxcenia on Mar 21, 2023 7:17:13 GMT -6
We are getting a light snow at this very moment. It is 27F, but feels like 17F. It is supposed to drop down to 23F, so I have the master bathroom sinks dripping. And I will drip the kitchen sink as well, and open the cabinet doors. And I won't turn the heat down when I go to bed. All suggestions mentioned on a Google search. I don't worry about it too much until it gets down in the low 20s, and more into the teens. That is when I notice my water slowing down and not flowing out in a gush.
3/19: 42 / 26 3/20: 54 / 34 3/21: 53 / 47 3/22: 66 / 60 3/23: 72 / 53 3/24: 60 / 43 3/25: 63 / 49 3/26: 69 / 47 3/27: 58 / 40
Warming up a wee bit. I’m sure we’ll see the freezing temps again before May though.
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Post by Phalon on Mar 29, 2023 5:00:06 GMT -6
Hello? Hello? Spring? Are you out there?
<silence>
Into my second week back at the nursery, and the weather has ranged from Freezing-My-@ss-Off to Eh. Cold, wind, rain, snow, and some kind of ice chunks that might have been hail, only smaller - at times everything at once. Some sunshine too, which has been nice, but temperatures have only been in the high 20s to low 40s.
It's 39F now, but the temperature is supposed to fall throughout the day to the low 20s, with rain changing to snow by afternoon.
Spring? Are you listening?!
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Post by Joxcenia on Mar 30, 2023 0:34:29 GMT -6
Spring comes and goes here. Sometimes it feels like Spring, and sometimes it feels like Autumn, and sometimes Winter pops in. But it appears we will be mostly having Spring for the foreseeable future.
T | 3/29: | 69/56 | F | 3/31: | 71/50 | S | 4/01: | 55/38 | S | 4/02: | 64/51 | M | 4/03: | 72/65 | T | 4/04: | 78/67 | W | 4/05: | 73/50 | T | 4/06: | 59/50 | F | 4/07: | 61/51 |
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Post by moonglum on Mar 31, 2023 5:50:35 GMT -6
Morning all. I've been a bit quiet of late, doing other things. Vox has been suffering with a stomach hernia since last October. They keep putting her appointment back, it's now July before the specialist will see her. It has been raining here for what seems like months. It is that drizzling persistent rain that doesn't cause floods but soaks you right through. Having said that, there have been floods in other parts of the country but thankfully not here.
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Post by Joxcenia on Mar 31, 2023 20:17:03 GMT -6
Sorry to hear about Vox. I hope they bump her schedule up to see her before then.
We’ve been getting a lot of rain of late. My niece sent me pictures of her basement. Not good. The river is probably overflowing too.
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