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Post by steev on Apr 8, 2017 3:35:14 GMT -5
When my 2nd great-grandmother came to NorCal, her family settled in Liberty, Cal; when the railroad went to Galt (near, but no cigar); they moved Liberty's civic buildings the several miles to Galt, using horse-powered windlasses.
Not to speak of politics, but her family was from Ohio, and Liberty was later mostly Missouri secessionists.
Politics is complex, especially in Cali, por supuesto.
We'll not even mention the Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Italians, Armenians, Sikhs, Indians, Vietnamese, Jamaicans, Africans, Brazilians, Argentinians, etc, etc; it's so great! The whole damned world comes here, to our benefit. Landrace humans, landrace culture; it's all good, once the turmoil settles down. Oops, too late; they've been mentioned.
Weather has been lovely, though it looks like rain will recur this week; you know the deal: like the water; hate the lost work.
Looks like I have new and returning help, though, so I may be making inroads on the backlog; couldn't hurt.
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Post by toomanyirons on Apr 10, 2017 19:10:50 GMT -5
Temperature reached 82F here this last Saturday. Tonight it is snowing, enough to put a covering on the ground. That is springtime in Minnesota.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Apr 10, 2017 22:32:49 GMT -5
There were two inches of snow on the ground yesterday morning. Today it was melted, and the soil was dry on top by 3 PM, so I pulled weeds by hand. The soil was too soggy to have used a tool.
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Post by reed on Apr 11, 2017 4:26:37 GMT -5
I didn't check till early evening yesterday and it was 82, must have been 85 earlier in the afternoon. It's 68 now at 5AM with a little lightening off to the west, we could use a little rain. Five days so far in April over 80 degrees, not a good sign.
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Post by mskrieger on Apr 12, 2017 15:34:15 GMT -5
Daffodils blooming in full force, spinach and poppies sprouting, it's lovely. Temperature went up to the high 70s Monday and yesterday (record breaking warmth for April in this area, though only by a few degrees), down to the 40s at night...very beautiful spring weather.
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Post by farmermike on Apr 12, 2017 21:11:01 GMT -5
Peach leaf curl seems like a weather event to me.  It just keeps raining in California. We are 13" over our average for the whole year already -- and more rain on the way. (Annual ave: 17"; year to date: 30".) Hard to say anything nice about the drought, but 4 years without peach leaf curl WAS some consolation. |
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Post by richardw on Apr 13, 2017 16:37:36 GMT -5
Just had a ex-tropical cyclone Cook pass within a 100kms, wouldn't have known though, brought only light winds and only a couple of showers
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Post by SteveB on Apr 13, 2017 18:21:06 GMT -5
Beautiful cooperative weather here. Wish I would have prepared the garden last fall as I normally do. I could be planting. Oh well I'm expanding and need to break sod, nice weather for it.
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Post by steev on Apr 14, 2017 2:00:13 GMT -5
It's been weird; last couple days, occasional downpouring squalls; after five years of drought, we're close to record rainfall this year, nearly double normal.
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Post by steev on Apr 20, 2017 1:51:59 GMT -5
WTF! It's raining! Not just sprinkling, this is rain; no rain was predicted for the next week; are the weather sats all down? Today, a client was saying we must be done with the rainy season; we're >10" above normal (24.24" in Oakland) already.
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Post by richardw on Apr 24, 2017 14:22:53 GMT -5
Looking like the frost tender plants are going to make it to May without a killer frost which is s first, there's been a few very light one though.
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Post by prairiegardens on Apr 24, 2017 18:57:15 GMT -5
Grass is green some tulips are up, although no sign of the daffodils or tulips planted last fall. And today an inch of snow, prolly more tomorrow. Couldn't get the farm truck back where it belongs, so it's sitting in the front yard looking decrepit but nothing to be done until the ground either freezes again or dries up. Clay!! Not at all sure the new apple trees made it, the voles were certainly at one of them. The other looks like it may have survived below the graft.
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Post by William on Apr 25, 2017 9:16:31 GMT -5
Been a cold wet spring. Voles went mad last winter here. Wax currents are blooming, several prunus species about to bloom, larch is leafing out, elderberry leafed out, maples about to leaf out.
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Post by walt on Apr 25, 2017 14:54:23 GMT -5
Very pleasant weather today. But 5 days ago I heard severe weather forecast in my county and went out to close widows on car, van, and pickup. Before I got back inside it was pouring. Then hail, 3/4 inch for a while, then 2 inch hail. But by then the ground was white with hail and creeks were high. Sun was back out before sundown.
Car tops were dented but no serious damage.
Frost predicted this weekend, and I have corn and sorghum up. The growing points are below ground, so I expect them to survive.
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Post by steev on Apr 29, 2017 1:06:31 GMT -5
The heat is showing up; not my favorite temps for working; I think it's a tad early; looks like our record rain-year is done; hope to see it return in October, as "normal". I've already got several re-landscaping projects on the "to-do" list, if it does.
If not, well, they'll continue to be postponed, possibly until they aren't my concern; I have neither the time nor desire to waste my time and my clients' money planting stuff that could be drought-killed.
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