[AT] Heat

Grant Brians gbrians at hollinet.com
Sun Aug 21 20:15:39 PDT 2005


Farmer, as I read your missive below, I was thinking gosh 90 degrees is not 
hot and we had the entire month of July here in California with hot 
temperatures - none records, but the most consecutive days above 100 degrees 
in the Central Valley ever and here near the coast the most consecutive days 
over 80. But then you mentioned that "H" word that we rarely experience - 
HUMIDITY. We had two days of what we consider high humidity here this 
month - and I know how it does not even compare with that real mid-western 
high humidity. So, no competition here and in fact I enjoyed the warmer 
weather for the five weeks it stayed warmer.
    I hope by now it is more pleasant for you and the farm fields are not 
drowning! I am planting my last planting of beans and squash tomorrow and 
then setting out several hundred joints of aluminum sprinkler pipe to 
irrigate it. We live in a different world, but this spring we wondered if we 
were now moved to the midwest as it kept raining very week or so!
        Grant Brians
        Hollister, California
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson at svs.net>
To: <FrugalRuralLiving at yahoogroups.com>; <100AcreFarming at yahoogroups.com>; 
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 2:21 PM
Subject: [AT] Heat


> When I start whining about being cold next January when it is 20 below 
> somebody remind
> me of how tired I am right now of these 90 + temps that are hanging on so 
> tight...   ;-)
> Last year we never hit 90. This year we have had about 10 of the last 12 
> days where it
> has been 90 or above and a bunch more before that.  I am really getting 
> tired of walking
> around soaking wet from sweat. The hu-muggity is staying up around 75 to 
> 90 % with daily
> attacks of 100% (rain). It has already rained once today and looks like 
> some heavy stuff
> coming. I was mowing at the west barns about a quarter mile down the road 
> and when a
> sudden rain hit I just drove to the open face tool shed and drove inside 
> and parked where
> I could see out. About the time the rain slowed a bit I was thinking about 
> shooting out
> of the building toward the house then I heard it coming again but with 
> bucket sized
> drops. I waited... Then above the clatter on the tin roof I heard a 
> tractor running. Down
> the road came a fellow I didn't recognize driving an open backhoe outfit. 
> He looked a bit
> like a drowned rat. He waved as he passed and I held out my hands palms up 
> like I was
> feeling for the rain (I was still in the building) and he laughed and 
> hollered that it
> had quit and that I was safe...   :-)   The whole farm is rapidly turning 
> into a rain
> forest...
>
> -- 
> "farmer", Esquire
> At Hewick Midwest
>      Wealth beyond belief, just no money...
>
> Paternal Robinson's here by way of Norway (Clan Gunn), Scottish Highlands,
> Cleasby Yorkshire England, Virginia, Kentucky then Indiana. In America 100
> years
> before the revolution.
>
>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
> robinson at svs.net
>
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