What is your weather like ... today

[CountryEscape]

Sharp eye, Colleen! Actually that's a mulch pathway with flagstone pieces tossed in for steppers. I love your path much better, and one day .... well I need to gather a bunch of rocks,and they are not so easy around me to gather, have to go "far and wide".
The tree, JW, had broken off before I bought the house. When I had two large soft maples (that were at least 1/3 dead already) cut down, I had the guy cut this tree off at about 12' tall. The top is very flat, but there is a robin/dove nest on the top "deck". The tree refuses to be completely dead, and sends up branches each spring, and they fill in quite nicely, making this "poof ball" at the top of the trunk. A friend said that if I let the limbs grow, it would keep the trunk sturdy longer, as roots were still growing. Not sure that will actually work, but it keeps me from getting up there to cut them off each time they sprout. As you can see, there are a couple of branches that were not with the main branch that tore off. When the big ones tear off like this one did, it takes more of the bark up there along with it. In time the trunk will deteriorate and will need to be cut all the way down, or at least shortened some more. But, for now, I enjoy having a sturdy trunk to attach a couple of small wind chimes and bird feeders to.
Colleen, the trip to WA and the NW will be next summer. Don't you worry, if it works out that we drive instead of fly, we ARE going to come by and see you along the way! I hope it works that way, but will have to wait and see. I think it's next year in August, but can't remember maybe it's September, but it's 2015, not this year.

 

[sissy]

those pink hibiscus are the only things that grew good this summer besides the bananas .But bananas only grew great after a guy here told me they are heavy feeders and I should use the jobes plant spikes on them also and the babies i think grow around 4 inches a day now .The other day and pic from yesterday

 

[Big Lou]

Forgot to also mention high pollen & high mold spore alerts. Kids starting back to school during one of the highest temp weeks of the summer. To think back in the day our schools in the South did not have AC.

 

[MitchM]

Chilly here this morning 7C/44F.
Supposed to get down to 5C/41F next week.

My tomatoes will not like that.

 

[tbendl]

Wow MitchM, we are expecting record highs this weekend, (up to 107 or 109 with the heat index). Wish we could split the difference. And Big Lou, I wouldn't survive without AC down here. I remember as a kid visiting my grandmother during the summer in Indiana and sitting in front of a fan with a bowl of ice. Hot hot hot!

 

[sissy]

humid and hot and was staining the front porch but stopped so it can dry as it looks cloudy out now .Got both set of steps sanded and cleaned and stained at least .Not sure about mother natures plan for today

 

[j.w]

@CountryEscape thanks for clearing the tree deal up and neat that it keeps growing back and it's a home for the birdies and your hanging things.

Overcast today but starting to clear. It's like the saying down in San Diego, "No sun before noon in June" but it's August here and it starts to do this when Fall is on the way

 

[Aaron S]

Its HOT

 

[callingcolleen1]

Dear Weather, This is Day Three of your non stop cold hard rain, is there no end in sight??? Spiders and their sticky webs are now long wash away, How much longer in this cold wet gazbo can I sit here and Play?
The sounds of running water come NOT just from the pond.... But from the neighbors eves trough, pouring all night long!
It's well after three am in the wee hours of the early morning, I can see my breath, and the chill of the cold wet night goes deep to the bone. I running back inside, to the warmth of my dry warm home! time to play with the fish tanks inside the house again, winter is comming.....

 

[MitchM]

Frost warnings out for a little bit north of us last night.

It's slowly creeping closer.

 

[sissy]

Sunny here 77 degrees but they are calling for a chance of a thunder storm .I went grocery shopping yesterday but something happened here and my son could not figure out which pump or what was going on so he shut the whole thing down .So came home and it was an easy fix but now know that i have to mark everything and hang plans of the set up down by the pond .So last night drew up the pond marked the pumps and hoses and filters and aerator on the plans and color coded every thing .Then I took colored tape and marked each wire at the outlets and wrote on them what each cord was for .I then made copies and laminated all the copies and hung 1 by the outlets and one by the basement door and have 1 by the front door and 1 by my desk .In the future there should not be a question on what to do .I even did a paper on possible problems that could arise and how to solve them and that came from stuff i have already seen happen and I worked on those things to resolve them so they will not happen again .It is great info to have by your pond for any one including myself .

 

[JBtheExplorer]

Foggy, humid, warm.

 

[j.w]

Well the days of Summer are non-ending here! There is no rain in our near future, just plenty of warmth and sun, sun, sun

 

[Big Lou]

100 > ultimately today. A no outside in the yard for me. Ho hum...........

 

[Veloth]

100 now that's why I'm inside on here.