Yeah, for rain, Sis.
I'll be the plants are so happy, I can hear the sigh of relief.

Hope they don't lynch us Rick.

Hope the rain gets to your place Linda.

SIL - Thanks... I am sooooo glad.

Linda,

Hope you get some of the monsoon rain which is coming to us from the gulf. I would love to share with you,
I guess we do via the Colorado River...

Best of all worlds - enough to keep things from drying our - not enough to wash anything away ---


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Uh Oh. Rain is causing some flash flooding in the burn areas....

Oh bummer, I never thought about that happening.

Floods in burn areas could really cause some serious erosion, as there's not much vegetation to hold the topsoil in place

Homes in burn areas that are below the slopes of the mountains are now in danger of the mud slides. ...

Yes.. it is getting in need of shade... it's pretty hot here.. @98 now @ 1 PM... 40% chance of rain later ... so there's some relief... I put up a bit of shade for me in one seating area... the plants can deal with it as they find it..
what a fun thread... I never heard of the expression to gird my loins ... seems it's a bible verse.. having to do with tieing your garments up to go into action... I was going to ask what it was about.. and googled it first...
I can feel for the heat out there... now that we're at 98*F.. and you can see by the thermometer on the roof surface... what the welcome breeze is picking up and blasting the plants with... the periotic watering is done for the addition of water ..and to bring some cool to the roots as well... the tiny ones .. in little clay pots that sit down on the roof surface are getting a heavy dose of get up and grow away from the roots .. up to where it's only 98*F



looks to be about 150*F.. yup it is

Aaaaaa!!!! Gordon how can you go out there? They would have to retrieve me with a stretcher.
I love your lovely shade curtains. And your gardens are as lovely as ever, even with that terrible heat. You sure know how to handle difficult weather.

Sis, are they having mud slides already? My heart hurts for all those in the slide areas.

yep. there are some area of the Boulder, and the Fort Collins burn area under flash flood warnings. I have not checked Colorado Spring but I suspect they are too. My heart hurts too. Such beautiful areas and they have suffered so much already.

I found Colorado to be such a beautiful place when we visited this spring. Love All the areas you mention above, so hard to even think about the devastation that has taken place.

Was just up in Estes Park.. beautiful but drippy wet. Not complaining as we need it so desperately! Caught hellacious rain from Superior all the way down to home (Parker).. it's raining right now. YAY!!!

Gordon - *passes out* YIKES! Well, you can just cook a burger on the rooftop, eh? Save on gas/electricity?

Here are some images of shade lean-tos. NOT exactly the thing for formal gardens!

http://garden.org/thread/view_...

I started a new shade area this year...not that I prefer the shade... but I had a vine growing out of control...so I sat it about across the area on some 100 lb test monofiliment line... the vine was a small thing of maybe 8 " last winter...it grew inside then out in the spring.. it grew up to the top of the trellis... from 20 ft away... then across 15 ft to the other side..
woops pictures are on another machine... I'll post them soon