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Post by steev on Feb 3, 2018 4:23:34 GMT -5
As I age, I don't get hurt so much (leaky bloody, though), but I do get cold; 'spect I'll soon need a couple women to keep me warm at night; won't mind being the ham in that sandwich. "Three dog night"? Not my idea of comfort.
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Post by walt on Feb 3, 2018 13:48:52 GMT -5
Growing up on a dairy farm, I was out in all weather. Generally no problem. Just dress for it.
After leaving the farm, still no problem with cold.
But 3 years in Africa, first year I was terribly hot. Second year, sure it was hot but no big deal. Third year, why are all the newbies whining about the heat?
Came back to Kansas. Couldn't stand shopping, stores were too cold. Took 3 years or more to adjust to the cold winters. Summers, didn't mind the heat for the next 30 years. But the last couple of summers, I can't work so much in the afternoons..
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Post by steev on Feb 4, 2018 21:24:16 GMT -5
This week's temperature whipsaw: 76F/26F; that's what kills newly-planted trees for me.
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Post by mskrieger on Feb 5, 2018 14:29:06 GMT -5
But 3 years in Africa, first year I was terribly hot. Second year, sure it was hot but no big deal. Third year, why are all the newbies whining about the heat? <snip> Summers, didn't mind the heat for the next 30 years. But the last couple of summers, I can't work so much in the afternoons.. I'm impressed that you've kept the adaptation. I've found it takes several weeks of living with no AC in the summer to be able to work outside without getting sick at temperatures above 80F. And I assumed that was normal. As Rudyard Kipling wrote "Only fools and the English run about in the heat of the day." |
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Post by Day on Feb 5, 2018 20:28:19 GMT -5
This week's temperature whipsaw: 76F/26F; that's what kills newly-planted trees for me. Cripes, that's intense. That's like sprinklers to ice cubes. |
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Post by walt on Feb 6, 2018 15:35:20 GMT -5
But 3 years in Africa, first year I was terribly hot. Second year, sure it was hot but no big deal. Third year, why are all the newbies whining about the heat? <snip> Summers, didn't mind the heat for the next 30 years. But the last couple of summers, I can't work so much in the afternoons.. I'm impressed that you've kept the adaptation. I've found it takes several weeks of living with no AC in the summer to be able to work outside without getting sick at temperatures above 80F. And I assumed that was normal. As Rudyard Kipling wrote "Only fools and the English run about in the heat of the day." I have known 2 people, both women, who break out in a terrible rash when exposed to cold. One couldn't even use the swimming pool at the Y because it was too cold. Every one is different. |
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Post by steev on Feb 6, 2018 21:59:46 GMT -5
Indeed so; that's how we've survived whatever the conditions thrown at us; we may have determined that if we're to go extinct, we'll have to do it ourselves.
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Post by steev on Feb 9, 2018 21:55:49 GMT -5
The weather is so beautiful it's depressing; oh, for a lot of crappy rainy weather. Really, a lot; granted, I'd not be able to work much, but people would know why, so no problem; I'd catch up on the books, and there would be beaucoup work later, especially in the Fall, re-landscaping.
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Post by philagardener on Feb 11, 2018 21:22:34 GMT -5
Rained a lot in the last 24 hours - high mud season in Philadelphia. 63F tonight - that feels really strange for early February. Maybe the groundhog was wrong . . .  |
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Post by steev on Feb 12, 2018 21:51:10 GMT -5
Nearly no snow on the Coast peaks; I think the seasonal creeks are flowing due to the melt of what little there was.
The soil is so dry it took 30+ whacks to set some T-posts and most of what I've planted isn't sprouting.
When I needed to install fencing one Summer, we drilled pilot holes for T-posts with a portable generator, jackhammer, and a breaking point; when my inorganic silt dries, it sets up like concrete.
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Post by philagardener on Feb 12, 2018 22:40:08 GMT -5
Rained a lot in the last 24 hours - high mud season in Philadelphia. 63F tonight - that feels really strange for early February. Maybe the groundhog was wrong . . . 24F predicted tonight, only a day later. Man, that's like a temperature luge run!  |
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Post by reed on Feb 15, 2018 6:31:49 GMT -5
58 F here this morning and supposed to get warmer through the day. Drizzling rain most of the day after a lot of rain yesterday. I think I'll let the house plant sweet potatoes spend the afternoon outside, wash some of the accumulated dust off their leaves, they should like that.
Forecast calls for little in the way of below freezing for next several days and lots of chances of rain. Time to get a cold frame or two ready and get some seeds in them. Too muddy to get out and do much in the gardens but not really that much to do as I did a lot of spring prep last fall.
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Post by philagardener on Feb 16, 2018 6:57:19 GMT -5
We're back to 58F overnight too. Top of the run again or easing into Spring? Snow in the forecast for the weekend!
I can't blame the maples from being confused!
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Post by prairiegardens on Feb 18, 2018 18:23:43 GMT -5
Daffodils and crocus blloming, iris and other things charging ahead yesterday, woke up this morning to almost 8 inches of snow and the power out, luckily only for a few hours.Turned sunny but now very unfriendly looking gray clouds have hidden the sun again. Nephew and his sister planted a new apple tree and some other stuff two days ago, all the little stuff disappeared but the tree was bravely holding up to the wet snow so far.
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Post by ethin on Feb 18, 2018 21:45:09 GMT -5
Yesterday it was in the 40s, the ground had been bare since the first of the month and I was pruning trees, today it's in the 20s and there is 10-12" of heavy snow.
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