What is your weather like ... today

[JBtheExplorer]

Looks like another winter storm is on the way, unfortunately. Potentially up to a foot of snow tomorrow night into Friday. I'd like to get my pond started within the next couple of weeks but that's only if mother nature cooperates.

 

[addy1]

We are 50 or so right now, diving down for our "snow storm" so far we have had 1/4 inch, this snow will add maybe 0.01 inches. But cold is coming back.

 

[j.w]

Been sunny mostly here for the past few days. Not real warm tho. Highs in the low 50's but goes down to the 30's at night. Better than rain!

 

[GBBUDD]

Been sunny mostly here for the past few days. Not real warm tho. Highs in the low 50's but goes down to the 30's at night. Better than rain!

Brighter side it looks like the drought stricken west coast is almost fully out of danger . except now mud slides are more the issue. You folks out there your never happy fires, floods, droughts, drugs, homelessness , the walking dead, feces' on city streets sounds like heaven to me.

 

[j.w]

Brighter side it looks like the drought stricken west coast is almost fully out of danger . except now mud slides are more the issue. You folks out there your never happy fires, floods, droughts, drugs, homelessness , the walking dead, feces' on city streets sounds like heaven to me.

No mudslides for us up here where we live, but did have smoke from the fires. Not any floods caused us any issues either. Drought didn't hurt us either. Mostly drugs and homeless issues are in Seattle and not around us. We are in the more Heavenly area up on our hill away from the cities thankfully.

 

[GBBUDD]

@j.w I bet you get elk passing by every know and then

 

[j.w]

@j.w I bet you get elk passing by every know and then

No elk near us! They have a lot over on the Olympic Peninsula and some here near our Cascade mountains on the west side. We are in the foothills near the Cascades but not close enough for elk.

 

[CountryEscape]

I spent the day this past Tuesday in shorts and a tshirt cleaning up flower beds.
Before on the backside of the waterfall hill …

And after … I didn’t clean up everything, left some leaves at the base of many plants. But there are lots of new growth coming up already.

And Yukon continues to visit his fish friends, even though the leaf/heron met is on the pond. He figured out how to get under the netting.
I have a plan for reconfiguring the netting braces, since the conduit pipes are bending the wrong way, so I will replace them and the main brace between the “T” brace posts will be replaced with rigid PVC pipes.

 

[CountryEscape]

Our grass is thick and green in those areas, partly due to being Yukon’s potty spots. But with 70°F days like this past Tues, why wouldn’t the grass start to grow?!? We are back down to 40’s for highs and low 30’s-upper 20’s for lows.

 

[j.w]

Our grass is thick and green in those areas, partly due to being Yukon’s potty spots. But with 70°F days like this past Tues, why wouldn’t the grass start to grow?!? We are back down to 40’s for highs and low 30’s-upper 20’s for lows.

Only the grass knows,lol! It will grow when it wants to and then we will all be wishing it would stop............at least here as when we get our rains and warmer temps we are mowing every week it seems.
Good to see Yukon again! Your pond look so nice and clear and great job cleaning up the gardens. I am lazy this year and am just waiting for warmer weather to get out there. Still doing my long walks in the morning tho as that takes priority

 

[GBBUDD]

we are mowing every week it seems.

Yikes that's a good week for me peak of early summer it's easily twice a week

 

[addy1]

I need to mow already, grass higher than my pups bellies. Went to get the mower out of gas, low on oil, good excuse not to do it.

So I ran the bush hog instead, cutting down some old growth. Then walked the area and saved 12 mantis egg cases. But them in plants around the yard.

 

[GBBUDD]

ive seen those sacks and never had a clue what they were

 

[addy1]

ive seen those sacks and never had a clue what they were

I save every one I find, if I am cutting stuff down. They do great bug control. I see them munching on the stink bugs. Put a casing per plant, ow when they emerge, they eat each other.

Cold and windy today, so back into the basement getting ready for our new filter system, badly needed. All these years been fighting a brown silt in our well water. We triple filter to remove it. Our well casing top thing started leaking, they had to come out to replace, in pulling it up with this 10 foot pipe, it broke off completely. Luckily just as the pump line hit surface, the guy grabbed it fast, ow a crane would have been needed to come in and retrieve our pump and line.

Well in this entire process, when they cut the line to put on the new end, the guy said you have a unreal amount of IRON in you water. So the brown stuff has always been iron not slit. We also have these little black magnetic chips in the water. These chips clog up my diaphragms on my watering system, always filter the water going into the system a outside filter. They had their test the water guy come out, and yep iron.

Our water is hard not soft, SO long story short, now getting a remove iron filter, neutralize the acidic well water (5.4 ph) and add a softener, since neutralizing will add hardness to the water. Not a cheap install, but we will have good water. So our blood must be really iron rich! Since we have drank iron for 10 years.

The first picture is from our outside faucet, not run for a week or so, second picture is the same water after sitting for x time. You can see the layer of iron in the bottom of the glass

 

[j.w]

I save every one I find, if I am cutting stuff down. They do great bug control. I see them munching on the stink bugs. Put a casing per plant, ow when they emerge, they eat each other.

Cold and windy today, so back into the basement getting ready for our new filter system, badly needed. All these years been fighting a brown silt in our well water. We triple filter to remove it. Our well casing top thing started leaking, they had to come out to replace, in pulling it up with this 10 foot pipe, it broke off completely. Luckily just as the pump line hit surface, the guy grabbed it fast, ow a crane would have been needed to come in and retrieve our pump and line.

Well in this entire process, when they cut the line to put on the new end, the guy said you have a unreal amount of IRON in you water. So the brown stuff has always been iron not slit. We also have these little black magnetic chips in the water. These chips clog up my diaphragms on my watering system, always filter the water going into the system a outside filter. They had their test the water guy come out, and yep iron.

Our water is hard not soft, SO long story short, now getting a remove iron filter, neutralize the acidic well water (5.4 ph) and add a softener, since neutralizing will add hardness to the water. Not a cheap install, but we will have good water. So our blood must be really iron rich! Since we have drank iron for 10 years.

The first picture is from our outside faucet, not run for a week or so, second picture is the same water after sitting for x time. You can see the layer of iron in the bottom of the glass

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No wonder you are super woman and always on the move! You are sucking up all that iron into your muscles, like Popeye the sailor man