Char said:

Whoops, I do too...or shorts.

Figured as much, no 🌅 today, 44 tonight. About time to get some mulch.

Charley visualizing ☔️

72°/79°/60°
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 5 pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy. South wind 5 to 10 mph.

Ginny,
My sympathy! I don't know how I took no AC in the early days either.

Kelli,
Same here. Only dogs and an occasional car plus the crickets and katydids. Once in a while a hoot owl or two will be close and coyotes, but neigher stay long.

Linda,
I hope you find where your roof is leaking. I'm glad you have proof.

Char,
LOVE dragonflies! Love that they eat mosquitoes.

Charley,
That chilly at night already?

We are having our first foggy fall morning. It is 75 already. Hope that doesn't mean a real hot day.

Char, maybe your swarm was mayflies. They are a little bit like small dragonflies. They hatch out of a river or body of water in the evening in a huge swarm and mate and die. I remember being in one when I was a teen. I even found dead mayflies in my pockets. It was earlier in the year than this, like maybe July or maybe it was May and that is why they are called mayflies. I don't know if there is any kind that hatches this late in the year.


They are calling for a high of 85F again. I only go out in the afternoon to get the mail if my husband isn't home, so that isn't bad.

Sally

To quote Dave's Garden;

"Each winter, on average, your risk of frost is from September 16 through June 11.
Almost certainly, however, you will receive frost from September 28 through May 24."

Theoretically I have a week and we still have scapes without FFO. I'm hoping for the September 28 date. NOAA says a high of 77 today and a low of 42 tonight. Blankets, where did we put the blankets?

Charley

billyporter said:72°/79°/60°
A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 5 pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy. South wind 5 to 10 mph.

Ginny,
My sympathy! I don't know how I took no AC in the early days either.

Kelli,
Same here. Only dogs and an occasional car plus the crickets and katydids. Once in a while a hoot owl or two will be close and coyotes, but neigher stay long.

Linda,
I hope you find where your roof is leaking. I'm glad you have proof.

Char,
LOVE dragonflies! Love that they eat mosquitoes.

Charley,
That chilly at night already?

Sally. The man was here this morning and did some sealing and we wait now till the next rain. If this does not work they will hire a roofer at their expense .

It was very humid again today. Only garden work I did was water as I ran errands and went to the supermarket instead.

I'm pretty sure they were dragonflies... they were quite large. I was standing on the deck and they were a good 30 or 40 feet out then up from me. Just never noticed them at night before. I agree Sally, they are around during the day, beautiful red and blue ones.

It was hotter today than yesterday, 91F at noon. I was inside by then watching the noon news and my favorite weatherman was saying how it was nice out with it being cooler today... Hmmmm. We didn't get any of the rain they had been promising. Next chance is tomorrow when the back side of the front comes through we get some!

Linda, glad they are standing behind their work and willing to make the repairs if needed.

Our average first frost is right around the same as yours Charley. I'm thinking we are going to be looking at Oct before we see frost this year. Still waiting on some rebloom scapes and Carnal Emporium to FFO, the buds are getting bigger maybe by early next week. Need to check the winter squash this weekend, they might be ready to pick.

Mmmmmm, we will be right over! Err, Oops, you're in Vermont. I guess we will stick with calibasas for now.

Charley

Just got disturbing news, forecast low for Sunday is now 39.

Charley

Charlemagne said:Just got disturbing news, forecast low for Sunday is now 39.

Charley

Ouch. That hurts

Not a bad day, cool, windy, sun and clouds, 40f overnight, high today was 61, may get a shower tonight.

We had virtually no rain for 4 months. Cried and screamed and weeped for rain .......and nothing .Well, it is as I predicted to my husband . Now it seems we are in Monsoon season . If we weren't in such a flat area I would be waiting for the mudslides to hit .

It just doesn't seem to stop raining and not just a light rain but torrential rain . Not thunderstorms either ......just teeming down rain ! Kind of like someone up there turned on a tap and walked away and the tub is overflowing . All that rain we should have had in May, June, July and August, we are getting now . Pig pen is a soup ( pigs are loving it !) The white Muskovys are looking a little brown.

The other odd thing I have noticed is there is no wind associated with these rains. Not even a stiff breeze .......just rain coming straight down by the bucketful .

Daylilies are putting out scapes for heavens sake . most especially those that decided not to bloom during the drought . I am trying to cut back gardens but keep running into brand new scapes coming up . I hope they bloom before we get frost but with this screwed up year the one thing I have learned is nothing is certain.

66°/73°/50°
Mostly sunny. Breezy. NW wind 10 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.

Charley,
My frost isn't until mid to late October. Your early frost floors me!

Linda,
I would be running the hose on the roof, lol! Unless you have a water meter. Then I'd wait for the next rain. At least they're working on it.

Char,
In a good year we have the huge helicopters, golden ones, red, green, blue and black too. I love all of them!

Signet,
After waiting for rain that long I'd run out in it at least once :o)

It rained last night and twice now this morning. Not big rains, but enough to keep the skeeters happy.

Same with our weather here Signet. We are getting more rain now than all of summer combined. Good for the tomatoes I guess. It rained most of the night and still looks like rain at the moment. Hopefully it will clear up later.

Sally I didnt need to run out in it . Headed out to feed the pigs , chickens and ducks as the rain had slowed down and got caught just past the gate to the pig pen .It started to pour again . Totally drenched . Stood in the portable garage for about 15 minutes this a.m. waiting for it to let off again , it did but caught me again when I decided to head to pig pen again . Gave up and got drenched while prepping the animals food.

Loved your pics of dragonflies and damselflys . My two favourites are the dragonfly that looks like a biplane and the bright green one

Cindy, so you are getting all this rain too? I am not sure how good it is for the tomatoes here , mine are rotting on the plants . Watermelons and peppers are growing great though.

We have got some rain, but not a lot. We need more to help the trees, watersheds, etc. We got one downpour this week, but that is all. This has been an odd year for sure. I hope it is not repeated.

I think once in 19 years we have had a killing frost. We will get some frost on the rooftops and on the grass that doesn't kill anything. The saying is, 'The good news is we garden all year. The bad news is we garden all year.' My husband thinks that the climate here makes people crazy. It is just go, go, go all of the time with no downtime. It doesn't even rain enough to give downtime. Most of the time, the rain is at night anyway.


They are calling for a high of 88F.

Cindy,
My tomatoes are self eliminating themselves. I threw a bowlful today that just overripened on the porch. I don't know if I'll evven get any fried gree tomatoes out of them this year. Boo hoo hoo.

Signet,
Oh my, drenched!
All I needed was to get a picture of a red one. The blurry picture was the best I could get.It was golden like a fairy. I've never had them since.

Kelli,
Your husband is right! Heat makes people crazy too!

Chilly wind today. I shut my window!