Wadda way to go
Here comes the rain again.
Humm along if you know the tune. This is the third day of rain here in the PNW and a dusting of snow in the higher elevations. We've not had snow this close to summer solstice in my memory living here. It only reached 59° here Saturday in East Vancouver.
While the cool temps are great for the young crops just getting started, the excess rain is starting to flood out the soil. I'm starting to worry about root rot.
They say it's about an extra early El Nina that may create the hottest year in recorded history, in other parts of the world.
Here they are predicting cooler, wetter weather through the end of the year.
Is this going to be the New normal?
Or is constant change, growing wetter and cooler summers while the rest of the country swelters in extreme heat and drought?
Some scientists are positing LA Nina's may never come back.
It's hard to decide whether to invest in air conditioning or firewood.
Of course adding more attic insulation would be a win-win and serve both.
I'm reminded of a Ben Franklin quote; Everybody complains about weather climate change, but nobody wants to do anything about it.
The thread is open. What's on your mind?
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Good morning earthling, thanks for the OT. I have no
opinions abut the weather or climate or el niño or his sistah. Took me all day yesterday to harvest 16 heads of garlic, the total of such grown in one of our raised beds. Maybe early, dunno, but taking today off before checking on or harvesting the shallots planted in the same bed at the same time. Mulched the whole bed with shredded junk-mail, which seems to have worked well. Not sure when I'll be ready to ready for summer crop and plant same, energy still low.
Good luck with your rain and soil drainage issues
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hope you get well soon
I fear the ink using shreaded junk mail or newspaper. I'm really anal about what goes into my garden soil.
It's probably harmless, but I treat everything like depleted uranium when it comes to my garden soil.
Thanks for stopping by.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Here in CO,
we've also had some of the wettest weather on record: year-to-date, we've had 11.66", against our normal for this date of 6.78". Our normal yearly total is only 14.48", so we're well on our way to hitting it already. There was a 3-day period in May where we got over 5", which is completely unheard of. And we have more coming Thursday, so who knows?
I suspect that when it stops, it will stop *completely*, and we'll be back in superhot dust-bowl conditions here in the high desert. But for the moment, the reservoirs are filling back up... And the mosquitoes are loving it.
The increasing weather chaos as a result of anthropomorphic global warming and climate change continues. Cold will be colder, hot will be hotter, wet will be wetter, and dry will be dryer- and the changes between them will be more abrupt. Shoot, we already have Tropical Storm Bret in the Atlantic, getting ready to shit on the Lesser Antilles on Thursday. It's going to be a bumpy ride this year...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Weather is never normal...
...nor is climate these days.
Drought to flood, freeze to heat wave...it is climate chaos. That's where we are. Ride the jet stream waves. We just have to surf them.
Good luck!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good evening, earthling1
Thanks for the OT.
We recently endured over 2 weeks of rain. It became depressing to me. Now, in June, we are in such extreme heat, it feels like August. August just may kill me!
I must rant a bit.
There is not a shelter within a 50 mile radius of me that can accept an animal. To make a vet appointment, one must schedule and pay for it at least 6 weeks ahead of time. A friend has a sick kitten that is suffering, needs to be put down, was told make an appointment. The kitten will suffer. Many dogs, stray cats, are in numbers nobody here has seen before.
Maybe 6 or 7 weeks ago, a stray dog showed up at my home. We decided to just keep her, deal with it all. She is a great dog. We might be able to board her for 7 days, $22 per day, we provide the food while we go on vacation.
Yesterday, a cat showed up at my office. It is friendly, playful, and is young. Spayed. At the age to playfully grab your leg with its' claws. It did do that to my secretary. I have children and old folks in my office. Wonder what my insurance would say if a client was clawed and injured by the cat? Would they say I was knowingly or recklessly endangering people with an unsafe office environment, and deny a claim, stick me with the medical bills?
I don't think it is possible to lower stress nowadays.
I used to get away from it on vacation. Now, I have the stress of returning to animals dead from heat exhaustion.
We all need a break, mayby time with nature not misbehaving, maybe music.
And always time with friends and folks of like minds.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Don't even *think* about declawing the cat!
It's like amputating your fingers to the first knuckle, guarantees the poor creature a life of pain and torment, and may turn it into a mean biter (because it is suffering and because it no longer has any other means of self-defense).
Do you have anywhere you can keep the cat confined while you are seeing clients? Like a back room or storeroom that can be made into a kitty corner? (Cat may not want to deal with all those strange people either.)
Life with critters can get so complicated - but life without them isn't much fun.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
I would never do that to a cat!
The county has a maintenance barn across the street from my office. They have several stray cats around. The secretary feeds them, at least occasionally. It is possible this cat is from that facility.
She will not be allowed indoors. She spent her day on my back deck. Unfortunately, that is where my handicap ramp is located, right where elderly and infirm people enter and exit.
I hope she will wander back to where she came from.
One friend has a dog rescue charity and currently has 30 dogs. 27 of them were spayed or neutered, house broke, and leash trained. They were chipped. Why put the time and money into a critter then dump it?
I can't understand that level of cruelty.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Oh, man.
Declawing a cat is the cruelest thing you can do to it, short of simply killing it. Most of them never recover from that, and you're right- it can turn them really, really mean.
But occasionally things can go right for them, even so. A family we once knew had a cat named Sammy with some behavioral issues, which they made far worse by declawing her. She would bite all of them (especially in the middle of the night), pee on their pillows, shit in the middle of the kitchen, hiss and scream at them, and just generally was not at all a happy critter. They were going to have her put down, but they decided to offer her one last chance by bringing her out to our barn (read: dumping her with us). Not much of a chance, given that she was declawed, but we agreed that she'd be welcomed for as long as it lasted.
And she surprised all of us. She ran under the hay and wasn't seen for a week- but after that, she spent the next 8 years being the best barn cat ever. She knew the sound of their car, so whenever they came out, she'd disappear under the hay again for a week. But other than that, she hunted, moused very effectively, and she'd come love on us for giving her her best life when we were down there. Somewhere, I have a picture of my wife riding her horse, followed by the dog, followed by the cat, out in the pastures. We'd go out with an Adult Beverage in the winter, and she'd come crawl inside our barn jackets and purr her head off while we sat in the hay. And we'd get up to go back into the house, and she's wave goodbye to us with her tail and run back under the hay. She was done with being indoors.
She'd catch freakin' *magpies* on the wing, and bring them down by biting their necks: she looked like a dog catching a frisbee. Tough cat, declawed or not. Best barn cat ever.
She passed peacefully in her sleep of old age, on the little heated mat that we put out for her in the tack room, and we had her cremated and buried the ashes in the hollyhock grove outside the tack room. I miss her every day.
Every critter has a role for which they were born. The lucky ones get to find it, even if they are unlucky first...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
I have asked around
to see if anyone needs a barn cat.
Great story about that cat.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
It's getting pretty ugly here on the brown side
of the Cascades. Fire season already. No real big ones cause we don't have forests, just a grassy vegetation.
The big problem as I see it is that the traditional methods of measuring air quality don't really apply and we have never had a goal of clean filtered air inside (ref the cootie response). What is measured is the size of the particles, not the composition.
There was a piece in the Guardian (yeah, I know... but evry once in a while an informative piece floats in) that points to an elephant in the room. A few miles to the west of us are lots of vineyards. They use fertilizer and herbicides. They also burn waste (sanctioned by the local gov't). Except for once in a while the burns are controlled so they aren't even reported in the airnow.gov site.
The fumes from those burns and the uncontrolled ones are toxic. While our natural defenses work reasonably with the traditional smoke, this stuff is nasty. Very. It brought me down within minutes. Very down.
Be well, please.