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Comments (24)Amy, We were laughing about that same sort of issue the other day. Usually, we are dry and the clay contracts and we have a hard time getting doors to shut and lock properly. Tim is always having to make little adjustments to the hinges and locks to keep them working well. Beginning with last summer's and autumn's rainfalls, the clay expanded and the house was more or less back to normal and everything was working. Now, with continual rainfall for months on end, the constantly expanding clay has the doors getting harder to close again, but in an opposite way from when the problem is caused by contracting clay. You have to laugh about it or it would make a person crazy. We spend most of our time either extremely dry or extremely wet, and precious little of it "just right". I hope drier weather is coming. At our house, we how are just a smidgen under 35" of rainfall for this calendar year. Our mesonet station is about 4" behind us, but even so, it has almost a year's worth itself. Normal or average rainfall for us is 34" based on all the years the Mesonet station has existed or about 38 or 39" based on the 30-year-average. I cannot imagine what we'll end up for this entire year if the rainfall doesn't drop off drastically. George, Been there, done that, with the water trying to suck the boots off my feet. I'm gonna need a boat if it keeps raining. We have sunshine today, y'all, and have had it for at least a couple of hours so it is hot and muggy outside where Tim is mowing and indoors as well, where I've been in the kitchen blanching and freezing oodles of snap peas and snap beans. At least it is a good year for legumes. My food processing is up for the day, so now the kitchen can cool off but Tim will be out there making mud ruts in the lawn with the mower for a while yet. I hope to be outside in the garden tomorrow morning picking tomatoes, and probably more sugar snap peas. Of course, that depends on whether or not it rains tonight. There's tons of wildflowers blooming all over now, on both sides of the river, so at least the bees, butterflies and other flying things should be thrilled. This morning we had a blue bird world out in the yard with all sorts of the birds coming for their birdseed breakfast---we had indigo buntings (which I've only seen a handful of times, mostly in the last year), painted buntings, bluebirds and blue jays. There were tons of other birds, most notably mourning doves and cardinals, but I was enthralled by the many kinds of blue birds all visiting at the same time. In every direction that I looked, I could watch blue birds flying here and there, jockeying for position in the area where I'd scattered some bird seed for them. Dawn...See MoreWeather Check-In
Comments (4)We missed the rain last night, but got 1" the night before. We did get some wind but all it did was break my cannas and sunflowers. I had them planted protected from the strong South winds then I get strong Northeast winds, go figure. The cool weather was nice. I was busy outside all day Friday. Today is not to bad. I dread next weeks temps. We are planning on starting to chop corn on Thursday. Long days and nights ahead, but no feed no cattle no money....See Moreweather check
Comments (18)I live in coastal Southern California, and we had two days of mostly gentle rain and cooler weather with the front. We welcomed it but would have loved more. It was hot on Thanksgiving; so much so that I served brunch on the patio. I had bought cider to mull for the afternoon, but it was just too warm for mulled cider. So I saved it to make for Christmastime. My younger son loves to build fires in our family room fireplace, but it was too warm for a fire on Thanksgiving itself. We did have a good fire during the rain....See Moreweather check
Comments (25)North of Chicago along Lake Michigan. We may have already *had* our winter -- lots of snow. (Kidding.) Today's high may break a record of 55F, but then we go back to the twenties tonight. Happy to see our driveway again (dark gravel, but north-facing). Blue skies here, decorated with FAST-moving clouds out of the west. DIL's sister and family were delayed coming in from SLC yesterday. Hard to get TO the airport in a storm, then two hours on a plane that cancelled, then more time waiting in the airport for an eventual flight to ORD. (Well, I *think* they got here; saw flights moving later in the day. To those living in the Dakotas: Didn't the native Americans *go south* in winter? Something to think about? LOL...See MoreDawnInCal
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