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Post by walt on Mar 1, 2019 13:28:24 GMT -5
I have only do snow removal twice this winter, 4 or 5 hours each time. Both times twenty-somethings helped, though it wasn't their job.
Looks like this weekend will be the third time this winter. Maybe for the last time this winter. Maybe not.
Like Steev said. "I do it because I can. And I can because I do it."
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Post by reed on Mar 1, 2019 15:19:41 GMT -5
I'v had to clean our patio and sidewalks twice this year, first time a couple inches that had to be scraped off with shovel, second time about an inch that swept off easy with a broom. We're supposed to maybe get a little more next couple days and get cold again with highs in the twenties F. I figure when this cold snap is over I'm gonna plant something!
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Post by RpR on Mar 1, 2019 21:27:53 GMT -5
13 degrees right now and light snow.
I will out and shovel blow it for the fourth time in seven days tomorrow.
I had to clear the roof at home of about a foot and one half of snow but because we had rainy sleet there just before the cold weather came back the roof under the snow is damn slippery and while I was not afraid of falling off of the roor, I wuould just make a hole in the snow bank, it was a misery trying shovel it off and I ended up sitting in wet snow one half of the time.
I chopped off as many icicles up to 12 inches by six inches by three to six feet as I could but I have to go back and try to get the ice dam off.
When I was young , up to mid-twenties what every one now is belly aching about was a fairly standard winter though this one is coming in a bit later than the average.
Tonight will be the only night this week with night time temp. not falling below zero.
As I now have an average to two to three feet of snow now covering both of my gardens and a cold wet spring being forecast, could be a late planting for corn this year and with the ground being already saturated planting potatoes could be a sloppy mess.
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Post by RpR on Mar 1, 2019 21:30:20 GMT -5
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Post by reed on Mar 2, 2019 5:07:52 GMT -5
When I was young , up to mid-twenties what every one now is belly aching about was a fairly standard winter though this one is coming in a bit later than the average. I remember building igloos and tunnels. We went ice skating and ice fishing. If it snowed it snowed, people kept tire chains handy, we went to school and nobody freaked out about it. |
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Post by steev on Mar 4, 2019 21:34:33 GMT -5
Seven to eight inches of rain OTF last week; five of that in one night!
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Post by oldmobie on Mar 5, 2019 0:16:55 GMT -5
Seven to eight inches of rain OTF last week; five of that in one night! I get the impression your farm is either desert or "deserty". I know you've been improving your soil. No idea about earthworks. How well did your place handle 5" at once? Did it soak in good or run to someplace you could capture it? (Like your pond.) Or did it just flood and run off? |
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Post by steev on Mar 5, 2019 11:00:01 GMT -5
Aside from some clay in the South, the soil is inorganic silt; it drains like a sieve; there were no puddles at weekend.
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Post by jondear on Mar 5, 2019 17:54:30 GMT -5
At least you have a good infiltration rate! You are storing it for later use. 😎
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Post by steev on Mar 5, 2019 21:30:28 GMT -5
Right, and there's a subterranean stream under the middle of my acres; my best well hits it at 140'; my problem isn't lack of water as much as lack of organic matter to hold it where I need it when I irrigate, that's where the scrounged bunny-bean bedding and sawdust come in.
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Post by steev on Mar 11, 2019 21:38:27 GMT -5
Total rain so far this season is ~30", with ~6 weeks left to the season; normal full season is 20-22"; today was clear and nippy, but the bees were making good use of the sunshine, working any blooming trees.
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Post by steev on Mar 15, 2019 18:51:28 GMT -5
This week, the Bay Area has seen the first T-shirt-only days, no thermal (yes, of course, pants, sox, and shoes; what were you thinking?) ; after all the rain this warmth has supercharged the weeds (I'd like to harvest lots of them for pot-herbs, but we're too far behind the paying work for me to indulge my foraging inclinations).
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Post by philagardener on Mar 15, 2019 19:12:55 GMT -5
75F in Philly today! Got some work done in the garden, think the daffodils grew an inch while I was out there.
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Post by reed on Mar 16, 2019 8:23:11 GMT -5
It was 77 F here couple days ago, abruptly ended with a brief but intense hail storm, 40s F the next day. Heavy frost this morning but bright and shiny. The storm took down ALL the rest of the dangerous dead Ash trees, in a harmless way! Laid them down neatly in a pile at the edge of the yard. All I got to do now is cut em up and stack em and since they are at the edge rather than in the yard I can take my time doing that.
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Post by steev on Mar 16, 2019 9:48:06 GMT -5
It's a fine wind that blows some good.
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