Have you seen the forecast for this week-end?
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Comments (5)Carol, I think you're right, and I do think a handful of counties in far southeastern OK had one good rain of an inch or so very early in the year. For once, there are many places in OK who've had less rain than us, because we've had a whopping 4/10ths of an inch this year. Yippee. Oh, so maybe it is not such a great amount of rainfall, but it is better than nothing. I hope the scarcity of rain ends soon. There's a lot of smoke, dust, and cedar pollen in the air, and a good hard rain would give us a day or so of clean air. I keep looking at the drought map weekly and seeing the drought deepening and spreading up deeper and deeper into OK from TX and I just hope we get enough rain to reverse that trend. I swear, if it rains an inch a day the whole spring, I will not complain! I will learn to embrace the mud and enjoy it. It would be such a relief to have the dry ponds refilled again. Dawn...See MoreWeek-end project - two week-ends
Comments (14)I posted the photo on the gallery side: Gallery posting I tried putting just the photo here, but it wouldn't let me. Thanks for that link, Ellen. Now I know what part of the design means (I think). I'll have to do more research on that. I had given my sister some mudcloth that I had bought at an African festival a few years back for her birthday, and she uses it as a throw for one of her sofas. I guess that's easier than trying to make something out of it. Linda, making a headboard is fairly easy, but then I do have quite a bit of experience with upholstery. It's important to glue the foam to the board with upholstery glue (which goes on like a web) so that it doesn't shift when you are attaching the fabric. Also, we bought an electric staple gun, which made the job a lot easier. I think it does require two people, however. Lars Here is a link that might be useful:...See Morecan we plant this week or is frost forecast?
Comments (7)Well, here in Northamptonshire on a slightly exposed site I lost half of my newly planted out beans during the night of 1st to 2nd June a few years ago. Since then I always plant out with frost/slug protection (cut off lemonade bottle) over each bean. For phenology observers, who plant according to other occurences in nature, there is the old adage: 'When May is out, winter's lost its clout.' The 'May' refers to Hawthorn and ours has just started flowering here in the hedge. I also think we are safe, but, just in case, a bit of fleece or even a sheet of newspaper draped over plants could make all the difference should we get another cold night....See MoreRapidly Changing Forecast---Could Mean Lots More Rain This Week
Comments (16)kfrinkle, The latest rainfall projections for your area sure haven' gotten any better, and my part of Love County is straddling the line that divides the projected rainfall into the 3-6" category and the 6-9" category. Looks like the frogs are gonna be really happy and the gardeners much less so. Lisa, I imagine he is right. This year it seems like Norman floods at the drop of a hat. I imagine there will be lots of flash flooding and a lot of good old river flooding over the next few days. We had flash flooding overnight in part of our county (but not our part as most of that rain missed us too). Paula, It needs to be a big boat so it will carry a lot of potted tomatoes and peppers. All this rain has severely watered down the flavor of both tomatoes and plums. I suppose the tomatoes still taste better than grocery store tomatoes, but only just barely. Now that the peaches are breaking color and approaching the ripening stage, this big rainfall is going to come along and water down their flavor too. The rain hasn't hurt the quantity of produce we're harvesting but it sure has hurt the quality. As soon as they do the weather here on the noon news, it is back to the kitchen for me because I'm making plum jelly today. I probably should be outside building a plant ark and loading it up with 2 plants of each kind.... This morning, I heard on my county radio that a small amount of water (at that point, 1" deep) had just begun flowing across the Lake Murray spillway at Scenic Hwy 77. Hopefully that runoff from last night's very heavy rains north of us won't cause enough water to flow over the spillway that they have to close down the road. There's also a possibility that Lake Texoma may rise enough again to flow over the spillway again. The spillway is at 640 and the lake level currently is 637.70. It has taken it a couple of weeks to drop from the former high of 645.something and now it may go over the spillway for only the 5th time in its history. We weren't expecting the fifth time to occur so soon after the fourth time. We're expecting 3-6" in much of the area, with some areas getting 6-9". That much rain over a few days will fill up the lake quite a bit. It is funny. I thought it was mid-June and we were in the process of recovering from all the May rainfall. Suddenly, we're almost right back where we started, as if the two weeks of drying out never even happened. I feel sorry for anyone near the lake or river and especially folks downstream as they are about to have water damage and destruction all over again. On the bright side, all the rain made really nice-sized potatoes and lots of them which is wonderful since drought often causes smaller yields and smaller sized potatoes. Dawn...See MoreMaryl (Okla. Zone 7a)
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