I can never resist those sales… and so I have some plants to still put into the few garden spaces ready. This is pushing the envelope on new transplants since we are already seeing hot temperatures guaranteed to stress out new plants. I watered this morning and then a shower came along to additionally drench […]
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Weathering the Heat Wave
It’s fine for tomato ripening, but a little too hot for me. We are seeing temperatures of 89 to 90 in October this year- I sure hope this isn’t our Indian Summer! Funny how I feel all lazy when it is this sort of midsummer weather, and how a brisk normal October day can be […]
The Long Hot Summer
hasedProverbs 25:14 Like clouds and wind without rain is a man who boasts of gifts he does not give. My Summer Prediction I’m predicting it…. for my area, anyway. Ohio was hard hit by thunderstorms in some areas, but again the rain passed us by. The proverbs illustration reminds me to tighten up my promises […]
The Last of August Blooming
August is fading, it’s farewell lost on whispering wind while the Labor Day weekend is flashed on the screen of our minds. People are busy with their new school years and have already said their goodbyes to summer, the last of August is simply a tags end sale of afterthoughts. But there are blooms and […]
The Heat Is On
The USA is really taking the heat. Only this time literally. We have heat advisories again for today, and thunderstorms predicted for perhaps tomorrow. Until then I am staying in again, my children are encouraged to take it easy…Read, watch a film, anything but get overheated outside. And we put up the mister we bought. […]
More Than 60 Percent of U.S. in Drought
BREITBART.COM – More Than 60 Percent of U.S. in Drought reads the headline “More than 60 percent of the United States now has abnormally dry or drought conditions, stretching from Georgia to Arizona and across the north through the Dakotas, Minnesota, Montana and Wisconsin, said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist for the National Drought Mitigation Center […]
