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Today was bearable here, just, so keep that over your way please.

Jim

 

Same here Mark, 105 today. The sad thing is the last time we had measurable rain was the weekend after the Dragon.
Any one got some rain they would like to share ? Please.

 

Soon, MM. Very soon now.

Jim

 

'twas hot here today..... But not hot enough to warrant ac in the car

 

was 100 here today

 

I need to change all our cold water taps to read luke warm:crazy:

 

Yeah, I don't even turn on the hot water to take a shower these days, the "cold" is plenty warm enough!

I've had to refil the bird bath twice a day these days, not just from evaporation, but when the little guys find it they pretty much go nutso, flapping it out of the bowl.....I've also seen them doing something I've never seen before - drinking water.

 

Oh, and if you are going fast enough... you don't realize how hot it really is :ihih:

 

It was 101 here(108 with heat index) yesterday and suppose to be hotter everyday till Sunday.

 

Seems to be a recurring theme in many locales --

NASA - Satellites See Unprecedented Greenland Ice Sheet Surface Melt

 

It is becoming very ungreen here, leaves are falling off of trees, and lots of brown ones barely hanging on. Gardens are dying, and most lawns are yellow/brown, except ours, which is Bermuda grass, horrible stuff:incazzato:, but is thriving in this weather:mad2:. May be some rain coming today, but likely to little to late to help the trees:frown2:

 

Pretty much the same here, I haven't mowed since early June...

Rose was in the back yard a couple days ago and said the grass felt "crunchy" when she walked in it, and even the dog's don't like going outside to do their business.

Trees are dropping leaves like crazy, the berries on the crabapple tree are a sickly orange and it's like it's raining berries these days - they're not ripe, just falling off the tree. The birds and squirrels that normally love the bright red berries won't touch them.

Pin oak nuts have started falling off the tree, and they're still green. Don't know what that means exactly, if anything....of course they usually don't start dropping those till October.

I'm wondering if we're going to have another very mild winter, or if we're gonna get slammed?

 

I have to mow the bloody Bermuda grass twice a week:incazzato:, getting rid of it hopefully this fall. Rather then using the weedwacker around the edges, I'm using Round-up:devil:

 

Round-up is a short term solution, I've learned. It's not a "scorched earth" sort of fix, stuff will grow back.... usually the grass doesn't tho, just the damn weeds!

I hear you on the Bermuda grass, I guess that's why they have it in .........erm, Bermuda.....cause it's drought and heat tolerant.

When I was growing up our next door neighbor had it in his yard, he loved that fact that it stayed green all summer and his yard looked like a golf course, but he worked on it every weekend to keep it that way.

 

LOL :lol:

 

we're having the worst drought ever on record. The lawn is toast and all our smaller trees are dead. Even the big ones are wilting. We're saving the bath water to water the shrubs - afraid to use the well for anything but essentials. Still have green weeds growing in the lawn though, I don't know how they do that.

 

That is on the list of ways to deal with it

 

3 inches of rain early this morning, with more later this afternoon hopefully:fingerscrossed:. Now it is like a steam-bath outside:crazy: