Since the long awaited 1.3 inches last week its been in the 90s and humid ever since. Grass that started geeening again quickly went back to brown and despite constant watering flowering shrubs in my yard have the flowers rotting on the stem and leaves curling and turning brown. A constant battle.
Not just a bit of drought but the longggg period of heat and humidity accompanying it have been awful. Heck one of my 2 apple trees already is dropping brown dead leaves.
Brook trough my yard  ( our old pasture) is at least as low as  it has ben in my lifetime -and has been so for quite a while.
Inches of rain would be Great but need  them often.
Starting to appreciate the issues out West with a new understanding.
Rain is predicted in the next few days but that has happened from time to time this Summer with only a rare couple of tenths happening. Weird year -some places nearby have been pounded and some of us are dry.

An El Nino year would bring ridiculously needed/MUST HAVE snow to the Sierra and Cascades and the Jet Stream lift would give us a warmer winter in the Northeast.  I'm all for it.  Might help the steel and salmon to come back a bit, too.  On Big O AND in the Pacific rivers.

From what I interpreted bout Nino is that out West it will be difficult but it decreases  the Hurricanes here on the East coast . Yea--we might actually get a lighter year even when the overall interpretation is harsher- mostly West.

I think I read where the "Farmers Almanac" is predicting warmer, colder, wetter, dryer, more snow, no snow, good fishing, conditions...............  for somewhere this year.    I'll have to get back to yinz on that.......................
 
 
Uhh-oh........ coming dear!

If I got half the rain they  'predicted' this season I wouldn't be crabbing about the drought here.
The only job in the world where ya can be wrong at least half the time and say
'oh well' and keep working.

Yeah, Yankee Cowboy, as a matter of fact I did learn that. Took me a while but, I finally figured out why my better half supported me in learning about fishing. :-P

I see your new here on the FishUSA boards so, let me be the first to welcome you and just say; anything you need to know....... just ask.


Opps, silly me, I said Cowboy. ;-)

At leapt an inch of rain so far tonight

My corn is earing up nicely. Good soaker for sure Clint. Salmon reports should be coming in from the river tomorrow IMHO

If I had to guess we got two inches over the last two days. I have been eating corn for a week and my lawn is now six inches high

 A bit of wet respite here overnight- radar says it is over for a day or two-glad to have whatever it amounted to. Not much but appreciated.

Clint funny you mention it... Nibbled on an ear the other day and it was pretty good :)

This being such a beautiful holiday weekend I chose to stay home, away from the area lakes and crowds.   So, I decided to deal with the over abundant crop of tomatoes and potatoes I was blessed with this year.  I turned about 10 pounds of 'maters' into stewed tomatoes which, can be frozen for later use and I froze another 10 pound of fresh 'maters' to use in future sauces and stews.
 
Peeled around ten pound of potatoes of which, some shall be mashed for today's dinner and the remainder frozen for later use.
 
Now if, after this holiday, I could just catch me one of those big hybrid stripers swimming around Shenango Lake to have with some of those 'maters' and 'taters' I'd be a happy, happy, camper.
 
Hope all is enjoying this wonderful weekend and tight lines if yinz get out among the crowds, to do some fishing. 
 

Thanks Clint, BTDT when it comes to canning and the trick with the lemon juice is something not known by many.  Even if we peel fresh taters for supper, we put lemon or lime juice in the water and let the taters sit til we're ready to cook.  Lemon or lime juice also serves as a great substitute for salt when it comes to bringing out the flavor of veggies, fish and, meat.
 
Learned how to freeze tomatoes and potatoes some years back and over time, as the family size grew smaller we began freezing rather then canning.
 
Be they frozen or canned, we both know there just ain't nothin like enjoying a bowl of soup or chili made from homegrown vegetables.
 
Only wood I use for heating is for my detached 'mancave' so, I don't burn anywhere what I use to but, I still find it relaxing to cut (what I need(lol)) wood to keep 'the cave' warm on those chilly winter nights.  Nice that you have someone to help with cutting and splitting if you burn cords by the score, during the year.
 
Have fun, gotta run, I hear a nap callin my name. 

Clint I hear ya on that... I've thought of it myself and have done the math as well. I had a source this past spring of an 18-21 cord load of logs for 500... I could sell 10 cord of my own and then buy that load. Ended up doing my own anyway though as I've been taking down nuisance trees, dying trees as well as eastern whites for lumber. Will say, ive yet to find a source that burns as well as my hard and soft maples I've been burning. Just recently found 2 eastern whites that are just under 50" in diameter along with an oak that us 52"... I have to believe these trees are virgin or early 2nd generation at most. Probably gonna be milling some of these timbers. They've run their course, and I prefer to keep the 75-100 year olds Still growing... Wood and veggies... Such great additions to the weather thread :)

That's 6-7  cords, or 21 FACE cords, ain't no truck on the road  hauling close to 60 ton of wood. I could be wrong, but my logger friends  and the the past 35 years of burning wood would make me believe different. Usually that's a smaller tandem axle that hauls a full, no space load.  Still a reasonable deal!