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Post by bluemingidiot on Jun 2, 2016 19:50:27 GMT
Taken this morning. Yesterday we didn't have any rain but later in the afternoon I noted a "squish" in the ground that I had never experienced before. We have had more rain but the ground has not been this saturated since we have been here. I want dry because I feel better, sleep better and have more energy in dry air. Humidity just wears me out and it keeps getting worse as I age. This is absolutely as far east as I can live. Less mosquitos, fire ants and mowing is also nice.
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Post by Melissa on Jun 2, 2016 21:06:21 GMT
We are usually humid here in SE Ohio. Today is a humid, cloudy, yucky feeling day and the 17 year cicadas are hatching out everywhere. It is so loud outside from them you can barely stand it and they are flying all over the place, they are getting annoying...
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jun 2, 2016 22:04:49 GMT
Noise is a funny thing. Nothing can close my eyes quicker on a warm spring afternoon than wasps buzzing on the other side of a screen. I come close to losing it if there is a poorwill nearby at night but sleep through most dog barking episodes.
Three days ago a travel trailer was just off a busy, four lane highway. Couple were sitting on folding lawn chairs in the shade. She was reading a book while cars whizzed by 50' away.
Homo sapien sapien has got to be the all time supreme noisemaker. I wonder if animals have passed down tales about how quiet and peaceful it was before people came? Have you ever wondered if the creatures around you complain about the noisy Norrises?
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Post by Melissa on Jun 3, 2016 1:27:57 GMT
At least we are quiet sometimes. These things don't stop~
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jun 3, 2016 1:52:43 GMT
But the poor cicada has a party just once every 17 years and yet you complain. People are so hard to get along with--just ask any of God's other creatures.
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Post by Melissa on Jun 3, 2016 11:14:40 GMT
Seems that some people eat them... ecowatch.com/2016/06/01/17-year-cicadas-are-back/Cale said they kept landing all over the guys at work yesterday. They were paving, and seeding & strawing along the driveways. It was hot, muggy, and buggy! One of the guys said he just couldn't handle it and went home early. lol
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Post by bluemingidiot on Jun 3, 2016 12:13:21 GMT
It could be a well deserved plague for disobedience to God such as happened to Egypt, or not. Personally I find the music cicadas make much preferable to the reporting of the presidential campaign on radio and television.
Whatever, always be mindful that "our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever. So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.” 2 Corinthians 4: 17-18
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2016 10:56:48 GMT
We've had rain off and on here for the last 5 days. Garden is wet, weeds are lush, had to don boots to pick blueberries. Forecast for coming week looks nice so maybe we can get out and do some work. The humidity gets to me also thus I try to go out early in the morning or later in the evening. We'll probably be wishing for some of this rain come July and August.
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Post by farmchix on Jun 4, 2016 11:11:06 GMT
I was headed out to mow this morning before we send the roos to freezer camp....it is raining. *sigh* When will it ever stop? At this rate, I will never get all of my garden in.
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Post by themotherhen on Jun 4, 2016 18:13:26 GMT
It is not as wet this year as last year was, but wet enough that the entire garden is covered in weeds and the grass is midway to my knees.
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Post by MeandTK on Jun 4, 2016 18:33:42 GMT
We have lots of weeds too. I cannot complain however. We were needing the rain that we have been receiving. We had gone a couple of weeks without a good soaker.
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