[AT] List quiet!! Everyone OK, or just waterlogged??? - - Frustrating spring/summer so far...

[Phil Auten]

Sounds a lot like here, Farmer. Lots of rain and now it's supposed to be 
in the mid-upper 90s with heat indexes at 100+. But that's just Texas in 
July.

The county came by and did their semi-annual mowing of the bar ditches 
and did a fine job of tearing up the one in front of my house. Left deep 
ruts all over because of all the rain.

My fiancee' and I went to temple for the fireworks show Wed. night and 
it was quite pleasant by 9:00. We sat on the lawn of an elementary 
school and had a really enjoyable time.

Friday and today it was so hot by 10 AM that I gave up the idea of 
mowing the yard. I have needed to mow it something fierce, but it looks 
like I will have to do it really early in the morning. The other thing 
that I have put off is cutting the "volunteer" hackberry trees. Those 
things seem to grow faster than the grass. I also have some limbs on the 
huge oak next to the driveway that need trimming because they are 
starting to drag on the roof of the pickup when I park it in the 
carport. It just never seems to end.

Phil in TX


On 7/6/2019 11:59 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, 
> rain... Then a short spate of decent weather and now hot, hot, hot, 
> hot, hot, hot, hot, hot. Not just hot but with mega humuggity. Real 4 
> shirts a day hot and humid kind of weather... Days where every time 
> you come in you hang your hat on the rack in front of the AC output so 
> it will be dry for the next time.
> Getting anything done here (just south-east of Indy) has been a real 
> battle. The barn that is my farm shop is usually near impossible to 
> heat but not too awful hot in the summer. Not the case this summer. 
> That and it is so terribly full of stuff that I can barely move around 
> in it. Not usually a big problem since I tend to like working just 
> outside of the shop in the shade of a couple of trees. During all of 
> that rain the trees leaked badly.  :-)  What kind of trees you ask? 
> Ash, of course... this will be their last year thanks to the emerald 
> ash borers.  :-(
> I'm a little old to expect a tree I plant now to become a big shade 
> tree for me. I'm still planting trees of course, but now I plant them 
> for others that will follow. I may get one of those free-standing 
> steel carports for that spot at the shop door. They are not a cooling 
> tree but they are fast up and they don't leak as bad as a tree.  :-)
>
> Crops (mostly corn, soybeans, wheat and hay) are generally looking 
> decent in our area. Wheat is at harvest here now and seems OK except 
> where it has been standing water. I have seen a fair amount of straw 
> being baled.  Lots of round bales of hay last week but sadly quite a 
> few I've seen near here are off of old factory lots and there was a 
> lot of trash in those lots that got rolled into them.
> About Thursday we were down south-east of here near Cincinnati and we 
> saw a "lot" of fields that were fresh tilled and planted in the past 
> few days. They are usually a week or so ahead of us. Straight south of 
> here we've seen a lot of fields still standing water or at least 50% 
> or better in water. Here there has been a good bit of replanting being 
> done.
> Yesterday Diana came out to help me unload some light fence panels 
> (she worries about me in the heat) and she almost passed out. I pace 
> myself when conditions are bad, I learned that after my bypass. She on 
> the other hand always wants to work like she is killing snakes... I 
> usually make her sit down often in the heat but I hadn't been watching 
> her close enough.
> It's been really close and hot this  morning with the air dead still 
> and I have been working stop and start. 95 and humid with no breeze 
> gets tough on old people. I better get back out now since a decent 
> breeze has come up and it's clouding up a little...
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> aka "farmer"
> Central Indiana USA
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