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Another 4 tenths Sunday night. I've got grass that's 8 inches tall that I cut Saturday. It's August.

I wouldn't have any grass if I weren't watering the hell out of it.

The only "watering" of my grass I've ever done is when I step out of the garage and don't feel like going all the way inside to use indoor plumbing.

Well, as long as you're going to have big fires, you might as well have the "Biggest Fire in Washington history."

Thumper wrote:I was actually thinking of starting a separate thread about the fires. I was wondering if you, Hap, code monkey, Brite, and SciFiFisher were close to any fires. Or do you know people affected by the fires or are familiar with the areas that are burning? My uncle (in Portland) sent me a link that showed locations, sizes, and % contained of all the fires in the West. There were ALOT. We're getting coverage in Ohio about major developments and of course the tragic deaths of the fire fighters. Back in college my Dad worked for the forest service and fought fires in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon.

For those of us in Sacramento it's been mostly affecting air quality. A few fires about 40 miles from us but the big ones are much farther out. My lawn went brown weeks ago about the time Governor Brown declared a state wide water reduction mandate. Not that my postage stamp yard will reduce the amount of water being used by much. But I wanted to do my part.

Thumper wrote:The only "watering" of my grass I've ever done is when I step out of the garage and don't feel like going all the way inside to use indoor plumbing.

thanks for sharing.

SciFiFisher wrote:

Thumper wrote:I was actually thinking of starting a separate thread about the fires. I was wondering if you, Hap, code monkey, Brite, and SciFiFisher were close to any fires. Or do you know people affected by the fires or are familiar with the areas that are burning? My uncle (in Portland) sent me a link that showed locations, sizes, and % contained of all the fires in the West. There were ALOT. We're getting coverage in Ohio about major developments and of course the tragic deaths of the fire fighters. Back in college my Dad worked for the forest service and fought fires in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon.

For those of us in Sacramento it's been mostly affecting air quality. A few fires about 40 miles from us but the big ones are much farther out. My lawn went brown weeks ago about the time Governor Brown declared a state wide water reduction mandate. Not that my postage stamp yard will reduce the amount of water being used by much. But I wanted to do my part.

the fire closest to me has been put out. the air was very smokey over the weekend. this did not stop me from running errands.

code monkey wrote:

Thumper wrote:The only "watering" of my grass I've ever done is when I step out of the garage and don't feel like going all the way inside to use indoor plumbing.

thanks for sharing.

Anytime...

Thumper wrote:

code monkey wrote:

Thumper wrote:The only "watering" of my grass I've ever done is when I step out of the garage and don't feel like going all the way inside to use indoor plumbing.

thanks for sharing.

Anytime...

So that's why your avatar is shaking his leg....

Somehow I've derailed a thread about weather and wildfires to one about public urination...

Thumper wrote::P

Somehow I've derailed a thread about weather and wildfires to one about public urination...

don't give it another thought, thumper. we like you anyway.

Thumper wrote::P

Somehow I've derailed a thread about weather and wildfires to one about public urination...

Somehow? This is FWIS. Threads naturally derail. It takes considerable effort to prevent derailment.

Sometimes that's how my day feels.

Another inch Friday. Then it got cool. Actually down into the 40's one night with highs in the 60's a couple of days. Been about perfect the last couple days: low humidity, sunny, 70-lo 80's. I can take days like this all through the fall. Rain scheduled for the weekend again, almost on cue.

We have created a new "weather" category on the West Coast. It's called Smoke. As in today will be in the 90's with smoke for most of the week. Especially here in North CA for most of the week. If you have allergies, asthma, or COPD your ability to breathe just went down dramatically.

Nice.
Faked a big chance of rain Saturday. Two nice days in the upper 70's. Cool in the mornings. Won't be long, I might get to try out the new furnace.

Well, our big drought is over (sarcasm pointed at my California friends). After the wettest May-June-July on record here, we actually went 10-12 days without any rain, and a good month with just a little. The grass even tried to go dormant as it usually does here around August. Then we got well over an inch Tuesday. It rained so hard it knocked my rain gauge down, so I'm not really sure. Probably an inch and a half. It's much cooler on this side of the system and high temps are or will be down a good 15 degrees from September. With leaves turning and dropping, it's really starting to look and feel like fall. I used to really dislike fall, it meant the end of glorious summer vacation and the return to school. But last night, listening to the breeze rustle the drying leaves in the dark, I almost welcomed it.

I said, "Almost." I believe you could qualify that as a "positive" post.
But hey, due to the aforementioned "drought," something happened that hasn't happened all year: I skipped a week of mowing!

What is this “mowing” thing?? Don’t you have to have grass to do that??

No shortage of grass around here, and with temps back up in the mid 70's and another half inch of rain Saturday, it's back to its growing ways.

Fall seems to have fallen... unfortunately... that doesn’t mean that any rain has....

I'm not feeling good about the coming winter. I predict - without any rational basis whatsoever - lengthy power outages. So I'm buying a small generator and installing a transfer switch on the circuit to my furnace.

Got down into the 30s last night. Brrrr! Must've had frost further inland. Really unusual for here too, I can't remember such a cold so early.

But then, it's been a cold year. I read one of the few places on Earth that's colder than average in the past few months is the North Atlantic, leading to worries that the Gulf stream is going to start shutting down earlier than climate change models predicted. That'll be great.

We'll see what the rest of the season brings... to be fair, if it's actually cold enough for the canals to freeze again much will be forgiven on my end, but if it's just cold and crappy I'm going to be super depressed this winter.