So, so beautiful. It looks like the trees are about to flare up with color soon.
Reginald Selkirksays
Off-topic: Here’s a new trend to catch a ride on: Soap-cutting videos
As someone who makes soap, knives, and videos, this seems like a natural fit for you.
kestrel@#3: It looks like the trees are about to flare up with color soon.
Probably next week but maybe the week after. It has been unusually warm here this fall. Go figure.
I’ll probably miss it because I have a day-trip to Houston next week.
It has been unusually warm here this fall. Go figure.
Where I live, this summer and autumn were unusually hot. It was very hot, for very long, and even September was hot. Only now, in the middle of October, weather finally starts getting colder and similar to what you normally would expect in autumn.
I wonder why. . . Go figure. /sarcasm tag
And it wasn’t just hot, it was also extremely dry. A friend of mine decided to plant some new fruit trees this autumn, and the soil was completely dry, it was like dust. I also saw plenty of wilted plants. Large trees with deep roots did just fine, but all the plants that don’t have deep roots, well, they didn’t do so well.
The average city dweller probably hardly even notices this, after all, supermarkets are always full with food and the water tap always has water in it. But for people who utilize underground water and grow food crops this summer was problematic.
jazzletsays
leva
We had a two month spell with little or no rain, so small an amount of rain that the ground would be dry again half an hour after it had stopped. Even when we did start to get what seemed like plenty of rain regularly it wasn’t enough to close up the cracks in our clay soil for weeks. I hope your friend managed to keep their trees adequately watered. We had poor crops of onions and garlic because they were just too dry and we couldn’t water them enough, although the shallots did very well.
jazzlet@#8: We had a two month spell with little or no rain, so small an amount of rain that the ground would be dry again half an hour after it had stopped.
Meanwhile, up here, it’s soggy and unseasonably warm. I have a bunch of craptrees I need to cut down and I can’t even take my truck into the field because there’s a good chance it’ll wind up buried to its hubcaps (and then I’ll have to sweet talk my neighbor into pulling it out with his backhoe) This has happened before, so I am reluctant to make it a “thing.”
rq says
I thought the flood hasn’t happened yet.
jazzlet says
Lovely.
kestrel says
So, so beautiful. It looks like the trees are about to flare up with color soon.
Reginald Selkirk says
Off-topic: Here’s a new trend to catch a ride on:
Soap-cutting videos
As someone who makes soap, knives, and videos, this seems like a natural fit for you.
Marcus Ranum says
Reginald Selkirk@#4:
As someone who makes soap, knives, and videos, this seems like a natural fit for you.
Oh dear.
Marcus Ranum says
kestrel@#3:
It looks like the trees are about to flare up with color soon.
Probably next week but maybe the week after. It has been unusually warm here this fall. Go figure.
I’ll probably miss it because I have a day-trip to Houston next week.
Ieva Skrebele says
Where I live, this summer and autumn were unusually hot. It was very hot, for very long, and even September was hot. Only now, in the middle of October, weather finally starts getting colder and similar to what you normally would expect in autumn.
I wonder why. . . Go figure. /sarcasm tag
And it wasn’t just hot, it was also extremely dry. A friend of mine decided to plant some new fruit trees this autumn, and the soil was completely dry, it was like dust. I also saw plenty of wilted plants. Large trees with deep roots did just fine, but all the plants that don’t have deep roots, well, they didn’t do so well.
The average city dweller probably hardly even notices this, after all, supermarkets are always full with food and the water tap always has water in it. But for people who utilize underground water and grow food crops this summer was problematic.
jazzlet says
leva
We had a two month spell with little or no rain, so small an amount of rain that the ground would be dry again half an hour after it had stopped. Even when we did start to get what seemed like plenty of rain regularly it wasn’t enough to close up the cracks in our clay soil for weeks. I hope your friend managed to keep their trees adequately watered. We had poor crops of onions and garlic because they were just too dry and we couldn’t water them enough, although the shallots did very well.
Marcus Ranum says
jazzlet@#8:
We had a two month spell with little or no rain, so small an amount of rain that the ground would be dry again half an hour after it had stopped.
Meanwhile, up here, it’s soggy and unseasonably warm. I have a bunch of craptrees I need to cut down and I can’t even take my truck into the field because there’s a good chance it’ll wind up buried to its hubcaps (and then I’ll have to sweet talk my neighbor into pulling it out with his backhoe) This has happened before, so I am reluctant to make it a “thing.”