Wind gusts over 60+, are you ok Nancy
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The wind is really gusting out there! Will containers be okay?
Comments (14)Well, I decided to put them out there. It is called Winter Sowing (and this is the first real good dose of winter weather in a while for us here in the Philly area), so why not? I placed them on the deck, about 10 across on one row and six across on the other, and for each row, I tied some heavy duty string to one spindle on the deck, across to the spindle on the other side, while going through the handles of the jugs. Put a few bricks up against a few of the jugs for some extra weight. Came out there this morning, the soil was frozen solid and the jugs didn't move one bit. I did it!!! Now to find more containers........See MoreHow do YOU deal with the wind?
Comments (30)Skybird, I did some research before I bought it last year. Believe I got the 60% cloth. It is the commercial grade greenhouse cloth. I put it up last year with a 52" cattle panel along the bottom and then the top part with no support except a T post every 4' and a wire stretched along the top to tie it too between the posts. It worked great even in the hard 50 mph winds. It doesn't stop it all but sure makes a big difference. I have used the shade cloth on my cold frame this spring as I move new plants to it. Makes hardening off easier and it stays put there also with no problem. I got this chain link fence for taking it down from and old gas plant. It is the commercial grade and have seen it piled to the top with tumble weeds and never bend or go down. So feel good about it. But then again I've been surprised before when my "great plans" went awry. Thanks for the concern and I'll knock on wood as I know it can happen but feel good about it at this time. That is why I only did the south side last year was to see if I could hold it and how the fabric would hold up and how much support I might need. Will see how it performs this year. I know others that have put wood, tin or sheet metal up as high as 6' high for wind breaks for their gardens but really don't want to go to that extreme if I don't have too. Jay...See MoreDon’t you just LOVE wind?
Comments (20)This was the most insane WIND day I've ever know here in Denver (Thornton), and I've lived here since 1964! I'm used to gusts up to about 50 mph, but this was WAY beyond that! It lasted until sometime between 7:00 and 8:00 when it started to get better. The middle of the afternoon NOAA was showing SUSTAINED wind up here of 51 mph, and gusts to 64 mph! I was guessing I had gusts up to 70 mph, and then I heard on the weather that Broomfield (straight west of me) had gusts up to 84 mph, so now I'm wondering if what I got here was even over 70 mph! I was out digging up iris for the swap--when I went out it was 72º and the winds were "coming and going." After about an hour it got really bad, but I had to finish what I was working on! At times the wind sounded like I was just a couple feet away from a speeding freight train! The NOISE was incredible! Then the wind shifted to the northwest and got even worse--and it started to get COLD! I kept hearing things "snapping and cracking" and the cottonwood trees behind me started to Snap, Crackle, and Pop! Two of the worst ones had been taken down in the last few years, but the three remaining were "loosing branches" left and right! I MAY have mentioned a time or two around here how much I "dislike" cottonwood trees!!! A couple times I almost blew away myself! If the wind had been out of the east, Max, I think I just might have wound up blowing past YOU! I was getting really scared a tree was gonna blow down on my head, so I finished what I was doing as fast as I could and came back in! Since everything was blowing away, everywhere, I brought in all my plant stuff off of the deck, and brought in the Iris to put them in pots inside. A few minutes later I looked out of the slider just in time to see a couple flats of the plants I had potted up for the swap start blowing away! Opened the door to go out and "rescue" them, and as soon as I got the door open about a foot, ALL the "debris" from the deck blew straight into my face--and into the house! I have a couple loose pieces of carpet on the deck--they were weighted down with bricks!--and they all blew toward me and halfway into the door--the bricks went every-which-way! One flat--luckily it was just stuff left over from last year, most of which I didn't think was gonna make it anyway!--blew completely away, so I was out trying to "collect" all the styrofoam cups and pots from under the deck--freezing by then--and still listening to the "snapping and cracking!" The actual swap plants only blew "halfway" over, and I got them settled back down, patted the plants back into place, and put bricks on top of them! I had some birdseed in a tub on the deck, and THAT was EVERYWHERE--including in my eyes and mouth! Just as I was starting to get that mess cleaned up I glanced across the yard and saw "half" of the neighbor's cottonwood in my yard! I was NOT imagining the Cracking Sounds! The limb is at least 4" in diameter, 12" circumference, and it was "hanging" on the fence and juniper tree!!! I naively went over to "push" it back into the neighbor's yard, but the "heavy end" had slipped past the fence and crashed into the perennial bed, so I was pushing the "wrong direction" and it didn't take long to figure out that what I was trying to do was impossible, so I managed to pull if off of the fence and onto the grass! This is a part of one of the biggest limbs on the tree--the whole thing came down but the "main part," the BIGGEST part was heavy enough to fall straight down into the neighbor's yard! Laying sideways where it is now it's sticking up at least 10-12'!!! It's sticking above the top of the privacy fence a good 5-6'--RIGHT next to the fence! The diameter where this thing broke off of the tree must be at least 8"! Like I said, MAJOR limb! WHY do people keep cottonwood trees??!?? By the time I got back inside to stay it was 55º out--and I was frozen stiff! Didn't get warm again until several hours later when I took a HOT shower! Max, when the wind shifted to the NW your chickens stopped blowing by! I figure they were going by Colorado Springs or Pueblo after the wind shifted!!! Sorry I didn't know Amelia's name when she blew by or I would have wished her Good Luck! Sorry about your Chicken Losses today! ;-) I hope everybody else was safe today, and that nobody had any serious damage, Skybird...See MoreNovember 2018, Week 4 "Oklahoma! Where The Wind Comes Sweeping....."
Comments (37)Aaaackk! I'm so far behind I don't know how I can catch up, but I'll try. And, technically, this is a new month and a new week but I want to finish this thread before I start the new one. Bruce, It definitely is encroachment of a major type. Frisco and all the surrounding areas have grown, and continue to grow, exponentially. We drive down some of the roads mentioned in the coyote area occasionally, and they were country roads not too long ago and are city roads now. The development is occurring at such a breakneck pace that one of the things I tend to say to Tim every time we drive through there is ""where's all the wildlife being pushed away into?....what's left for them now?" Amy, It is alright. You've been through a lot recently and I am sure you have a lot on your mind. Now that you've found this thread, I'll go start the new one for this week in a few minutes. Regarding the chickens? We've had ferrets, weasels and ringtailed cats all get into coops we thought were secure, so maybe you have one or more of those sneaky beasties around? The first two, in particular, can squeeze through fences and through tiny openings. Congrats on the contract on your dad's condo. That happened fairly quickly all things considered. I know you'll be glad when you can cross the condo off your list of things you have to worry about. Nancy, The beautiful weather sounds nice. All too soon it will be icky again, either cold or snowy or windy or icy or some combination thereof. Today was only 56 degrees so warm but neither too hot or cold. All the wind the last two or three days brought down most of the leaves left on the trees, so we look really wintery now and even the last remaining red oaks in the neighborhood have lost their red and gone brown or naked now. It definitely looks wintery and I sure miss the green foliage. Fruitcake is an acquired taste. My dad made it as did several of my uncles, but I never acquired a taste for it. Early in our marriage I made one. I have no idea why. I wonder what I was thinking? Maybe I thought that making a Christmas fruitcake was a southern/family tradition I should carry on into my adult life? Nope, nope, nope. It wasn't worth the bother, we didn't even eat it, and I never made one again. If I wanted a fruit cake (and I don't) I'd order this one from Corsicana's Collin Streat bakery that ships tons of them annually: Deluxe Fruitcake A lot of people in Texas, in particular, consider this the ideal fruitcake, perhaps because a lot of it is not fruit---it is pecans. They sell about 3 million pounds of fruitcakes per year (mostly at this time of the year) and ship to at least 195 countries, in addition to the USA. In this particular case, even though I love to bake, I feel like they make a much better fruitcake than I ever could or would or have. Rebecca, I am not even sure my dad and his family members really liked fruitcake, but I guess it was a tradition from their relatively poor youth so they kept making it and eating it....despite not really liking it. I think maybe it is because their parents loved it and they lost their parents really young, so perhaps they clung to the fruitcake tradition as a way of hanging on to their memories of their parents. Larry, It is really kind of you to provide some entertainment for the cows. I know there must be some really good fruitcakes, but most of the ones I've eaten would not have been labeled as good in any shape, form or fashion, which is a shame considering how much work goes into making one. It also is tiring to try to chase down all the ingredients. I've noticed the last two or three years that a lot of the candied fruit type stuff that goes into them isn't even sold in local stores any more. Kim, I bought the Whole Seed Catalog at Sam's Club the first couple of years but it wasn't that special, other than just for reading it to pass the time, and I stopped spending money on it. Jen, I don't know of any way to tell the good seeds from the bad ones when they all look the same at the time you harvest and dry them. About the only thing you could do would be to run a germination test by sowing 10 or 20 of them on a wet paper towel or coffee filter and putting it in a ziplock bag. Check daily to see how many germinate. That at least would give you an idea of what percentage of the seeds you've saved will be viable. Keep in mind if the original plants were hybrids, their offpsring likely will not come true from saved seed. Jennifer, I hope your long day on Saturday went well and that you've spent today resting and recovering. Amy, I was watching the weather when the tornadoes spun up and was horrified when they started issuing Tornado Warnings for a "Particularly Dangerous Situation" type tornado emergency. It looks like it was horrible in the areas hit, but also seems like injuries were minimal and no one died. Why can't we have normal weather here? Tornadoes at the end of November are not unheard of but also not terribly common. We had some very strong wind gusts (likely in the 50s) as our severe tstorms roared through, but no real damage here. Some people in our county had portable structures, like sheds and carports, flipped or destroyed and trees damaged and power lines down and such, but I think it all was straight line wind damage and no twisties here. We got less that 0.20" of rain out of it, but I'm so relieved to not have mud any more that I'm not complaining. Rebecca, I hope y'all found a Christmas tree that was up to your standards. We bought a terrific and beautiful pre-lit one several years ago and I love it. I believe we got it at Lowe's. When I looked at the trees they have this year, none of them were anywhere close to it in quality though. It seems like everything we buy anymore just keeps being made more and more cheaply, although prices continue to go up. We had the girls this weekend and had lots of holiday fun, but I am exhausted and ready for the new week so I can catch up on my rest a little bit, Good-bye November! Dawn...See Moreshive
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