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Post by steev on Nov 30, 2015 0:05:45 GMT -5
Last night the farm dropped to 24F, which isn't too cold, but the coldest it got all last Winter was 28F, "normal" being mid-teens.
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Post by flowerweaver on Dec 2, 2015 18:22:18 GMT -5
Today was the first sunny day in weeks and I got to dig in the garden. There was some rain yesterday--I'm not saying how much 'til the year's end. So far philagardener is the only one guessing what my annual total will be, so he is winning by default! |
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Post by reed on Dec 2, 2015 20:22:17 GMT -5
Well, we can't have that. My official guess is 75".
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Post by squishysquashy on Dec 2, 2015 21:59:54 GMT -5
ok, 73"
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Post by philagardener on Dec 2, 2015 22:42:15 GMT -5
Today was the first sunny day in weeks and I got to dig in the garden. There was some rain yesterday--I'm not saying how much 'til the year's end. So far philagardener is the only one guessing what my annual total will be, so he is winning by default! Folks seem to be trying to top my number - so if they are right, it will be deirfault, not mine! (In this game, high is not dry!)  |
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Post by 12540dumont on Dec 3, 2015 3:11:17 GMT -5
The Firewood Poem
Beechwood fires are bright and clear
If the logs are kept a year,
Chestnut's only good they say,
If for logs 'tis laid away.
Make a fire of Elder tree,
Death within your house will be;
But ash new or ash old,
Is fit for a queen with crown of gold
Birch and fir logs burn too fast
Blaze up bright and do not last,
it is by the Irish said
Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread.
Elm wood burns like churchyard mould,
E'en the very flames are cold
But ash green or ash brown
Is fit for a queen with golden crown
Poplar gives a bitter smoke,
Fills your eyes and makes you choke,
Apple wood will scent your room
Pear wood smells like flowers in bloom
Oaken logs, if dry and old
keep away the winter's cold
But ash wet or ash dry
a king shall warm his slippers by.
Celia Congrove? Anyway, if it gets any drier, firewood is all we will have.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Dec 3, 2015 16:59:54 GMT -5
I used to polish petrified wood and coprolite. Sometimes the wood smelled like redwood, or juniper. The dinosaur dung always smelled like shit.
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Post by steev on Dec 4, 2015 1:43:47 GMT -5
I don't believe that; though you may have done so; I don't believe shit keeps volatile compounds for millions of years if it isn't in a ziplock bag.
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Post by steev on Dec 4, 2015 1:49:51 GMT -5
Actually started pouring today ~10:30AM; continued until ~2PM, though not as heavy; I'll be interested to see what the local fish-wrap says we got.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Dec 4, 2015 10:23:44 GMT -5
I don't believe shit keeps volatile compounds for millions of years if it isn't in a ziplock bag. What if it were stored inside a piece of polymerized silica? And what if the silica was ground down to powder inside a closed barrel over the course of 10 days or so? |
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Post by steev on Dec 4, 2015 11:36:11 GMT -5
I couldn't speculate; it would be idle feculation.
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Post by steev on Dec 6, 2015 17:38:30 GMT -5
The farm got .3" of rain during the past week and another .2" by 10AM today; next week-end, I may crank up Sukie.
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Post by richardw on Dec 7, 2015 12:57:12 GMT -5
Summer time here and weve had the last two mornings with ice on the car roof just as the sun is coming up.
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Post by walnuttr on Dec 8, 2015 3:05:38 GMT -5
Could be something to do with the battle between El Nino and the last few year's record high extent of Antarctic (thin) sea-ice getting closer to y'all.
I'm doing an occasional river-water pumping session to keep alive my late-planted willow nursery. The first set of leaves charred off black in the week that summer arrived. In between them the weeds double in size each week, but my energy don't !
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Post by toomanyirons on Dec 8, 2015 14:00:58 GMT -5
December 08, temperature here is 35 degrees at noon. Average high for this day for my area is around 18 degrees. It is raining, snow cover is quickly disappearing. Rest of week forecasts in the low 40s. Continued unseasonably warm weather expected through December.
I admit that I like this warmer weather for myself plus it keeps heating costs down, but if it continues beyond December it is going to adversely affect the garlic crop, ruin ice fishing, and probably wreck the maple syruping season in March. We also need our typically cold winters to keep garden/crop pest populations down.
I am not a winter person but I accept that we should be having winter weather now. I just want everything to remain frozen and snow covered until springtime, as it should be.
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