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Post by bluemingidiot on Jul 6, 2022 10:18:57 GMT
Today, Sunny and hot, with a high near 100. South wind 10 to 15 mph.
Thursday Sunny and hot, with a high near 100. South southeast wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
Friday Sunny and hot, with a high near 102. South wind 5 to 10 mph.
Saturday Sunny and hot, with a high near 102. South southwest wind around 5 mph becoming east southeast in the afternoon.
Sunday Sunny and hot, with a high near 103. South southwest wind around 5 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon.
Monday Sunny and hot, with a high near 103.
Tuesday Sunny and hot, with a high near 101.
These are shade temperatures. In the sunshine it is about 10 to 15 degrees warmer.
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Post by Cabin Fever on Jul 6, 2022 12:22:12 GMT
I think you should take a vacation to Minnesota. Come visit us.   |
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jul 6, 2022 13:30:16 GMT
Can I visit until Fall?
It's only 80 more days.
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Post by countrymom22 on Jul 9, 2022 19:50:27 GMT
bluemingidiot, sorry about your weather. Reading about your weather makes me keep my mouth shut about mine! Cabin Fever, can we all come visit till Fall? Those temps are my idea of what summer should be!
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Post by Jolly on Jul 9, 2022 22:59:55 GMT
Not but about 97 today, but the humidity kicks the heat index to 110.
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jul 10, 2022 4:06:38 GMT
Starting Wednesday, July 13 residents in Waco are required to adhere to particular watering schedules and rules amid an extreme drought, or they will be penalized, KCEN-TV reported. Residents could face a $2,000 fine for watering their lawns.
If you're coming to Texas, bring your own water. We don't have any to share.
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Post by Jolly on Jul 10, 2022 11:55:53 GMT
We're a lot drier than usual. The grass has that late August crunch and color. I'm still watering what few butterbeans I have left, along with my fig trees.
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Post by Jolly on Jul 10, 2022 11:56:31 GMT
Starting Wednesday, July 13 residents in Waco are required to adhere to particular watering schedules and rules amid an extreme drought, or they will be penalized, KCEN-TV reported. Residents could face a $2,000 fine for watering their lawns. If you're coming to Texas, bring your own water. We don't have any to share. Better tell all them California folks... |
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jul 10, 2022 13:52:14 GMT
Why?
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Post by mogal on Jul 10, 2022 16:17:54 GMT
Maybe because a lot of southern CA is also under water restrictions and those folks may be coming to Texas thinking ya'll have plenty to spare. I just hope they stay out of MISSOURI! A lot of my state is in drought conditions as well and it doesn't appear to be improving any time soon.
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Post by bowdonkey on Jul 10, 2022 16:34:55 GMT
Cabin fever, I think you should mention mosquitoes, deer flies, black flies, horse flies, knats, wood ticks, and deer ticks. All in super abundance this year.  |
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Post by Melissa on Jul 10, 2022 22:56:34 GMT
We have had pretty nice weather so far this summer. Rain when we need it and not too many really hot days. We have a nice stretch coming up:  |
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Post by Jolly on Jul 11, 2022 1:28:12 GMT
Cabin fever, I think you should mention mosquitoes, deer flies, black flies, horse flies, knats, wood ticks, and deer ticks. All in super abundance this year. If a mosquito ain't big enough to wear a roping saddle, he's merely a nuisance. Had an uncle working on his barn, and the skeeters got after him terrible bad. He jumped over the fence into the lot, turned over an old claw-foot they had been watering the cows in and crawled underneath to escape the critters. Next thing you know, Ping! Ping! Ping!, as the mosquito beaks started slamming through the bottom of that old tub. Thank goodness he still had his clawhammer with him, so he bent those beaks back as fast as they poked through. Things went from bad to worse, though, when he had so many skeeters nailed to that tub, the durn things lifted it off of him and flew off with his tub! He went on into the house for the rest of the day. They never did find the tub... |
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Post by mogal on Jul 11, 2022 2:06:37 GMT
Jolly, laughed through your whole story. I almost believe it.
My grandparents farmed in the rice growing areas of northeast Arkansas. Those rice fields were nurseries for mosquitoes. We had two sizes. The little bitty ones could fly through the mesh of a window screen and the big ones just opened the doors.
The most painful mosquito bites I can remember child or adult was when DH and I camped outside Buffalo WY. Those scoundrels HURT something fierce.
All of last week was dangerously hot with 3-4 days of heat advisories and warnings. We've had a respite yesterday and today but tomorrow through the long term forecast? Back to the blast furnace and little or no chance of rain. UGH!
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Post by Cabin Fever on Jul 11, 2022 20:11:59 GMT
bluemingidiot , sorry about your weather. Reading about your weather makes me keep my mouth shut about mine! Cabin Fever , can we all come visit till Fall? Those temps are my idea of what summer should be! Sure, come visit, we have a guest cabin.  |
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Post by Cabin Fever on Jul 11, 2022 20:13:33 GMT
Cabin fever, I think you should mention mosquitoes, deer flies, black flies, horse flies, knats, wood ticks, and deer ticks. All in super abundance this year. Yeah but, we don't have poisonous snakes, scorpions, and deadly spiders. |
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Post by Jolly on Jul 11, 2022 22:51:34 GMT
What do y'all do for fun?  |
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jul 12, 2022 17:27:34 GMT
I love the mornings, afternoons, and evenings on the front porch. Watching the birds drop by for a bath before going home. Hummers feed until after sunset. The giant swallowtails checking out the zinnias for dessert. The deer start coming in. Lots of fawns born the last days of spring. Wave at neighbors and anyone driving by. Speak briefly with those walking their dogs. The gibbous southern moon slowly gets more and more attention. The refreshing breeze on worn-out skin helps me to forget the afternoons heat. No mosquitos. Bat cave six miles to the SW helps with that. Bees and wasps are tolerant. probably too windy and dry for gnats. There's a sense of sadness when I get up to go inside.
Seems like other people just spend their lives in spacious coffins. They need technology to keep them entertained and distracted from the fact that their precious lives are confined to air-conditioned coffins.
When I was a kid and it started to get dark I went inside with a sense of regret like I was leaving my best friend. My idea of Heaven is a place where everything happens outside and you never have to go inside.
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Post by bowdonkey on Jul 15, 2022 16:49:47 GMT
What do y'all do for fun? Kill bugs! |
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jul 16, 2022 10:15:53 GMT
We pull sticker grass in our yards. Since we are pro-flowers, pro-hummingbirds, pro-butterflies, pro-bees, we do not use birth-control.
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