What is your weather like ... today

[j.w]

Weather today is windy and cloudy and rain is coming later today. I was just getting used to the nice warmth of the sun then it all disappeared!
Not many fires around here much w/ all the rain but home fires happen everywhere unfortunately. We do have burn bans but due to air stagnation. Speaking of which it is now time to go bring home all that fire wood we cut during the winter as the woodshed is finally done except for painting and that will just be painted on the outside so who cares right now!

 

[icsd71]

Cool today with rain started around 12:00 and has not stopped. Been mowing the yards non stop. Also have tons of flowers out. Supposse to be 70 Sunday and up to 80 Monday!

 

[MitchM]

Snow's not even gone, and I saw our first mosquito today!
Hurry up Blue Darners!

 

[HTH]

Had a gorgeous day with high 70s and little wind. Tomorrow they say the high 80s. I like today better.

Maybe time to turn on the swamp cooler.

 

[CountryEscape]

Really cool dragonfly photo, Mitch. I concur with ICSD as she lives north of me not very far; however, the drizzly rain began around 10 here. Just got outside ready to get stuff done, and the rain started. So, I worked in the barn, then got side tracked as usual, and decided to load up the scrap metal I was picking up. Got a truck full, and there are probably 3 more loads out there. My place came with hundreds of dollars worth of scrap metal. Junk yard was closed by time I got done, so it will have to wait until next weekend to get unloaded. Will use horse trailer to finish loading up stuff. Did get the old barn all cleaned out, though, so was very pleased with the progress!

And, JW and Big Lou, you have convinced me not to use the tree trunk after all for the wisteria. Glad I had not returned the arbor yet. Will anchor each side with a steel "T" post, to give it more stability. Wish I had an old clothes line T pole. The old ones are heavy, new ones are very light weight. Now will have to decide for sure where I want to put the plant, so I can smell it when it's blooming.

 

[MitchM]

It is a cool photo. I didn't take it though.
Boy, you're a busy bee, CE!

 

[callingcolleen1]

It was dark and windy and very very dusty, but that did not stop me from digging up the lights from last year and placing the new globe light in the bottom pond... LOOK!! pond lights all up and running, I just love them and can't stop posting pictures everywhere!

 

[capewind]

At 6 am, it's only 39* but forecast for a high of 61* .. apparently it is perfect SPAWNING weather for comets and shubunkins ... which seems to be sending ALL of the fish insane ... the buffet is open LOL.

 

[addy1]

we are sitting between 34 in the am, 60-65 during the day, beautiful weather, rain coming, which we welcome. The fish are spawning and chasing and eating eggs. They love that caviar.

 

[capewind]

I almost wish the comets could have waited a few more weeks ... no plants to speak of yet to be spawning in. We HAD 8 large (as in 8-9" not real monsters) long finned red comets ... FIVE disappeared over the winter (no bodies found) ... I now know at least two of the remaining long finned are males. Oh well, they shall spawn again.

 

[addy1]

There is some parrots feather, creeping primrose, penny wort and water mint floating in the deep end of the pond, growing great. They have picked that area as the egg drop. I also have iris and some grasses that are growing great, I have seen them run to those too. I am going by where I see the fish nibbling the most as to where the eggs are.

 

[capewind]

There's still a lot of activity ... in the upper pond/bog ... One "three some" ... Long tail is still harrassing the heck out of my little white mouth girl (short fins, red body) ... Everyone else seems to be leaving her alone ... they are going round and round, around the algae basket, through the one clump of iris' and between two totes of pickerel weed, BUT, I have a 12" white feeder goldfish who is litarally beaching itself to get to the eggs ... the water is only about an inch through most of this area (maybe a 4' x 6' area), no more than two inches deep in a few spots, and the "feeder fish" is about 4" high ... Keep watching to be sure this dummy doesnt get itself in trouble ... in the lower pond, at least two comet girls being heckled (I lose site of them from inside with the deeper water) and two shubbie girls ... they keep ending up where the two clumps of parrots feather is coming up, and the koi all look like an evil pack of hungry piranhas LOL.

 

[addy1]

I have one large white female, one of the first fish in the pond, she had 9 lil guys following her yesterday.

 

[Mmathis]

I read that so many of you sit out by your ponds in the morning, so I decided I wanted to do that. Got coffee, iPad, iPhone [so I can chat on GPF, AND have a "camera" at the ready at the same time]. Hoping to bird-watch, as I have my feeders out, new pond-powered birdbath, and PLENTY of birdies [and darn squirrels] out.

We had some rain come through last night. Right now it's in the low 60's. Overcast with an almost, very slight breeze [I'm getting a tad chilled in shorts & ss shirt]. Fish are active, had one boxie out soaking earlier, and one of the frogs has been hopping and splashing.

Hmm..... Sun might be trying to peek through the clouds.


Sorry the images aren't sharp -- best I could do with iPad "telephoto!"

 

[CountryEscape]

Went outside to check the rain amount from yesterday, got .5". Temps this morning are staying in the high 50's so far, sun refusing to come out, although it's supposed to make it's appearance this afternoon. This frog looks really chilly, doesn't it?

I went in to get the camera as a couple of the large goldfish were "sleeping" in the mass of algae that is like a big fluffy basket at the bottom of the goldfish pond. I am so tempted to remove it (there are 3 clumps, each about 1.5' in diameter), but then when I see them enjoying it, I leave it alone. I know the frogs wintered over in the little bit of stuff on the bottom, too. And, since the fish may spawn any day now as the temps raise (so far the pond temp is still sitting at 51), at least this stuff may give them a place to hide, any eggs that make it to hatching stage.
While moving rocks around in the waterfall, found tons of little clear egg "gels" on the water sides. Pretty sure those are the small snail eggs. I have lots of those snails, but the "live" ones are in the waterfall or bog, as the fish eat any I toss in to them. LOL
My flowering crab tree is blooming. I love how the flowers almost look like a mini double rose, hanging down on a branch with maybe 4-8 flowers on each stem.