What is your weather like ... today

[MitchM]

Very pretty flowers you have there Priscilla. Must be something like the flowers they have in Hawaii of which we just took our first trip to a couple yrs ago and I took pictures like crazy of all the plants, flowers and trees. So nice to hear you like it hear w/ all of us pond nuts

Was very nice here today w/no rain finally and lots of sunshine. Was out walking and came home and raked over mole hills. Gosh its still 55F now. Too bad the rain is coming back tomorrow AGAIN

Moles? You want to borrow our dogs? They love digging and catching moles!
I like the catching part best. The digging part I have to repair...

 

[j.w]

I have cats Mitch that like to try to catch them but they aren't very good at it. I gave up doing anything to get rid of them and just rake over the holes when they come up. I used to stick a hose down the holes and when they came swimming up I would grab them by the nap of their little hairy necks like a mother cat holds a kitten. Then I would put them in my bucket and take them for a ride on my bicycle far away to the woods and let them go. That got old and I did catch a few but the raking is easier.

 

[CountryEscape]

I have a Boston, and any terrier will dig up moles, but as Mitch says, then the human has to repair the damage from the dog. Where I live, no moles. Not a one. I imagine it's because it would have to travel over a mile on flat open ground (or in a tunnel) to get to my 6 acres, but that mile would be on farm ground where the chemicals have probably killed all the grubs, bugs, etc. that they would feast on. So, it's likely the only way I will EVER get a mole on my property would be if someone did a mean trick, and dropped off a few here! Yet another reason my property is a good place to live.
Not liking that my roof got serious damage in the last wind storm 2 weeks ago. Waiting for the insurance adjuster, who was booked out 3 weeks before he could make it to my house, due to all the storms in this state over the last couple of weeks! I would not like his job, driving from town to town, writing up estimates. Thinking it might help my cause if I'm home, to try to sweet talk him, just in case he only wants to write up for half of my roof replacement. Front faces west, where the winter storms/winds typically come from. I am secretly hoping I get a really bad E/SE wind to damage the back side as badly. The guy that gave me estimate said the back was also bad, just not standing up like the front shingles. Hoping what State Farm pays me, plus my tax refund, will get me a brand new steel roof without any more money out of my pocket, but we shall see ....
Temps went up to 56 here today, ground is thawed up on the top 2" or so, but frost still in the ground. Spring peepers were reported south of me about 20 miles. The old wives tale is 3 freezes/frosts (depending on who tells it) after the first peeper is heard, before spring is here to stay! So, bring on the freezes/frosts, I say!

 

[j.w]

I guess if I ever get a live mole again CE I could bring it on my bicycle to your place so you don't feel left out

Hope you get lots of money to get a nice new roof from State Farm.
Yay for your warmer temps now too. We are up in the 50's now and even had sun today but back into the wet stuff tomorrow.
Don't forget to turn your clocks ahead tonight!

 

[sissy]

And priscilla is calling us pond nuts and she has already caught the pond nut fever I hate moles .I put the milky spore on my back yard and my front yard but not the side yards ,they are next .Believe me it does not hurt worms .I was digging by my pond and there are big worms every where .That area was treated when i put the pond in .

 

[CountryEscape]

That milky spore stuff is pretty neat product. I used it for Japanese Beetles one year. They lay eggs on trees in the bark, hatch into worms, which fall to the ground, burrow in until the following spring when they emerge, become beetles, and fly around damaging plants and bushes. The bag said to put it especially below ornamental trees and bushes that the beetles feasted on (we had purple leaf plum trees they would shred every spring), and the following year I could really tell the difference.

 

[sissy]

with the price and I punch holes all over my yard with it the grubs are what the molles want and milky spore just makes them shrivel up

 

[Priscilla]

No moles here. Your picture was the first mole I have ever seen.

We deal with wild iguanas and wild chickens (yes, you read that right!). Its hard to have nice gardens because the iguanas eat all the leaves and the chicken scratch the ground and dig everything up. I love to see the tourists at KFC trying to get a picture of the parking lot chickens in front of the KFC sign.

 

[callingcolleen1]

I hate snow too Sissy, sick of snow and cold, lets have a big snowball fight and throw all our snow at JW!! She likes snow, we have had our share of snow, time for JW to get her wish!

 

[callingcolleen1]

First sign of spring in Canada.... Look at that fat porcupine!!

 

[morewater]

Hey, that's a fat 'un. Smelled a skunk yesterday, that's a sign of Spring but it's supposed to drop down to 10C again for Wednesday/Thursday.

 

[addy1]

Bouncing to 50 at home, 74 here

 

[MitchM]

First sign of spring in Canada.... Look at that fat porcupine!!

Colleen, very cool find!
I haven't seen that before. I'll have to keep an eye out in the tree tops.

 

[MitchM]

Hey, that's a fat 'un. Smelled a skunk yesterday, that's a sign of Spring but it's supposed to drop down to 10C again for Wednesday/Thursday.

It's going to "drop down" to 10C again???
I don't remember what that's like, lol.

Hopefully I'll find out this weekend.


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[morewater]

My mistake, Mitch. Should have added the minus (-), as in -10C.

Speedo weather, for sure.