Yesterday was like a sunny spring day, last night we got about 4 inches of snow.

Here yesterday was actually quite warm but early in the day we were at places so I did no yard work, by the time we got back it was not as pleasant so I put if off to today.
HA, today it was 40 but so windy and humid, I did what I had to outside and said poo to the rest.
I had a short sleeve shirt under a vest and when the wind did not blow, tolerable, but when the wind blew it was like standing in a cold room after taking a shower and damp drying yourself

Crickets

More Crickets.

Margaret - don't you DARE send that snow east of the Rockies! Don't you DARE!!!!!!!
Yesterday the Red Deer radio station was saying 4c overnight, and chance of (arrrrrrgh!) frost! No, dammit - this is still SUMMER

On another note - Last week I had 2 tests done - a VQ scan on my lungs, and an Electro-cardio on my heart, re: clots in my lungs 2016 & 2019.
Specialist called me Tues & told me he was very pleased with the results - my lungs are looking healthy, and my heart has gone back to it's regular size (the right side was enlarged slightly, due to strain on it from the blood clots). He wants me to get a re-test in a year, but in the meantime I will continue to take warfarin & get my blood checked for levels every 2-4 weeks. This is standard procedure.
After talking to the specialist, I was grinning from ear to ear & *ran* off to tell Bob (working on a neighbour's home). He was grinning when he heard.
I continue to make face masks - the Olsen kind. Thinking of making the pleated type as well. Friend of mie has a vendor market coming up & she has a table. She wants to sell my masks

Susan, you don't have to worry about me sending snow your way, that post is from November 2019. Weather has been pretty good here, today mostly sunny, 19 C. light breeze, humidity 33%.

Glad your tests were good, and things are back to normal.

That's great that your still making masks.

Its a wonder, while down here we had, had oddball cold snaps a hundred or so years ago, it has been a long, long, long time since July and August were not full on summer, hades hot 98.6 percent of the time.
Sub 40 in August, as much as I prefer cool to warm, I have been out in the hot humid weather a lot this year and have fully adapted to it. https://garden.org/i/s/tiphat....

I finally got the leaves for covering my roses up North so I went home to cover my new roses down there.
I also had to clear the garden of the corn still standing and mow the lawn plus rake heavy leaves from the lawn.

We had had STRONG winds before I got back so when I did , the leaves were gone from the lawn, plus the very tall corn had mostly been blown down.
I picked through the corn save those that were there from tip to root for a shock and put the rest in city recycle bin picked up every week.
I had enough for one decent corn shock, but not the humongous ones I have had in the past.

The leaves had NOT blown from the garden and as it was plenty windy the day I was working raking them out was pointless as they blew back, so I burnt off one third of them .
Not legal but as they were dry and they burnt off quickly; that they were that dry was a surprise as I normally dig our rather than cut off the corn but the ground was so moist it came up with clumps of sticky black gumbo. After trying to shake that off the root ball with little success I cut most of the rest off with a loppers.
Not wanting a strong gust of wind blowing burning leaves onto the roses I had covered was a main reason I only burnt off one part of the garden.

I mowed most of the lawn but quit when it was too dark to see well hoping to finish before the rain the next day; did not happen rain had been forecast for the afternoon but it started before sunrise, so my cousin and I drove down to Mankato to have Tex-Mex food at Zanz restaurant, a former Bell's hamburger drive in.

I was going to bundle and hang corn yesterday but with snow coming had to get the 71 Chevy out of the garage so I could get the snow blower out.
Well after 16 years the battery went pfft, would not hold a charge long enough to start the car so my friends and I , mostly me, took the battery out of my '78 Old and put it in the Chevy.
Easy to do with proper tools but all my tools were up North so after using an old plier and large vice grip got it out of one and into the other.
The old girl started on 15 year old gas. I drove it around the block so it would be warm enough to keep Idling and pulled the snow blower out, drove the Chevy back in.
For what eve reason we decided to clean out the trunk on the Chevy and I was amazed I had some where along the line bought a brand new tire for a spare tire, surprised because on tire on the car was literally bald, also found out two tires on the Chevy were flat or flattening so when I get energy Iwill have to fix that problem as I will have to drive out to get the roto-tiller out that was put where the snow-blower was.

Rather than put the battery back in the Olds, as the battery in it was already five years old, I bought a new on but new batteries are damned expensive and piss poor compared to what they were twenty years ago.

Now we have four inches of snow up North and I have to cover the roses up North.
Putting leaves over snow is no problem as it will melt because the ground is not frozen but I want to put a cloth cover over them first which will be annoying as it will be done while stomping around in snow.
It was supposed to be sunny todayy but is far from it, so depending on weather tomorrow may be put off for one more day.

Amazing the gas was still viable

crawgarden said:Amazing the gas was still viable

I am a bit also as I bought a car with 10 year old gasoline 18 or so years ago and drove it home but it was a stop and go drive; it would run and stop, start, run and stop, start, run and stop... I did this for thirty miles.

The Chevy, once it is running and warmed up runs and idles fine just fine; now the gasoline that is in there is a mix of Av Gas, genuine racing gasoline , Sea Foam, Stabil and anything else I put in it to avoid alcohol valve damage which also meant using almost no gasohol.

I am going to get rid of the Chevy as it not worth the tens of thousands of dollars to restore it, but I will drain the tank and use that gasoline in my two-stroke chainsaw and lawn mower.

It will be in the seventies today and tomorrow then till next Saturday highs are forecast from 82 to 85, as of now.
That will probably be accurate till turn off the lap top.

77 and bright clouds , time to go out and remove the pile of dirt the badger made and work on the sprinkler system some more.
Mowed lawn a few days ago so the lawn looks a lot better.
Probably not head home till Monday so I hope it got some rain for the new roses.
Black Bacarra , last new rose I put in up here is finally getting ready to bloom so I can see if it was worth the money.

Black Bacarra is nice but after seeing the bloom, if it ever goes pffft, tis not to be replaced.

87 with 62 percent humidity; going out to redo some paver stones in front of a shed in a bit as I am assuming that under the shed is a rotting old tree stump ( there was a tree there 30 years ago) and water runs into it as there are little canyons under some of the bricks but they just stop and lead nowhere and while jabbing with a shovel , the shovel does not sink.

Same problem I have on one side of the house .

Well pulled the pavers up and found that there were channels running under the edging and dropped into what was apparently part of a garbage dump area.

Found no big hole but a foot under the sod , in good soil, the shove hit soft spot and clinked.
I pulled up broken glass, metal shards, a tiny , and I mean tiny, bottle and a old zinc canning jar lid.

Put the dirt in the hole an packed it then put the lump of sod back down after which I filled the main channel, only two by two with polymeric sand.
Did not get the pavers totally put back in but laying them on polymeric sand meant the ones put down did not move though unused exposed P sand was useless and I pulled it out.

As usual, and I knew this would happen before I started, I pulled the pavers and did not check the pattern or exactly where and how some I cut and ground, the unseen bottom, to fit special places were located , SO, now it is two-thirds redone and the new ones are at a different level, and the edge is pinching on one side. (The latter is odd as the pavers were not narrowed or shortened so they should just fit regardless.)

I can assume that I had spaced them generously so I did not have cut them so now being spaced in the normal manner I have extra space.
Oh, well , It needed raising any way so, now it is.

RpR, what was the tiny bottle that you found? Something like medicine would have been in? or maybe perfume? We find all kinds of stuff in the ground here too, although have never uncovered anything very interesting.

I am guessing perfume, as it is the size of a large acorn with a flat bottom and stem.
I wish it had cap but that probably rusted away a long time ago.
Two small chunks of coal also were down there.

I find a LOT of broken glass when I dig around here, some times flat, some times obviously part of a bottle.

wow - awfully quiet here. Can't remember when it was this quiet that I didn't come to see 6 pages to read!

I'm doing well, hope everyone else is, too.

Caroline used to post regularly but now doe on rare occasions.

I post here so it does not die but as I simply do not post any where like I did 4 years ago, it is because I can so I do.

Glad you are doing well; is there a drought up there as Minn.is in a drought from severe to extreme over most of the state.
Farmers who were moaning about wet planting this spring should not too much water is better than too little in the long run.

We're having a nice downpour this morning - I hope you're getting some of that, RpR, it looks like a pretty big system coming through to us from the west. We're supposed to be going to a fish boil put on by our township Lion's Club this afternoon, so hopefully the rain will stop by then (at least for a little while).

We are getting peeing rains, 1/2 inch at best, while South East, Minn. Wisc and Michigan get a lot more as the storms head North but 98.6 percent of it misses Minn.
Not having to mow lawn every week, is not a good way to stay in shape though.