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Strange weather

by Tricia

How’s the weather in your area?

I think we’ve had some strange weather this year. It seemed like a good portion of June and July were cooler than they should have been and then we got slapped with a huge heat wave with temperatures in the 100 F range. Plus it was extremely humid.

Then during the second and now third week of August it’s gone back to being fairly cool some days. I mean it’s only 17 Celsius outside right now. That’s 62.6 F. Pretty cool for mid-August if I say so myself!

The funny thing is that by the end of the week we’re supposed to have another big heatwave!

We’ve either been freezing or boiling this summer. I sure hope that autumn is nice.






Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, In The Garden, Summer in the Garden, Toronto, Weather related Tagged With: august, autumn, cool weather, freezing, funny, Heat wave, humid, humidity, July, strange weather, summer, temp, temperature, weather

It’s a hot one!

by Tricia

Oh my gosh. I’m just in from being in the garden for about an hour. I went outside to take some photos of flowers that have already been blooming for a week or two. You know how it is, if you don’t get the photos while they are blooming they’re gone! I already missed a few flowers that don’t re-bloom due to my lack of being in the garden much this year.

It is soooooooo hot outside! It’s apparently only 30 Celsius, but as always it’s pretty humid here and when you factor in the humidity it’s 39 c! That’s 102.2 F! I also happen to have a fever, as usual, so I’m sure my body wasn’t handling the heat and humidity as well as it should have.

When I came in I was literally soaked as if I’d been out there in the rain. Yuck. You can bet I hopped into the shower pretty quickly. I still feel overheated though.

I’m so thankful that we have air-conditioning. I know that I’ve said we have a fairly green lifestyle, but when it gets this hot here in the summer I don’t think I can easily give up my air conditioning. Hopefully all the rest of the stuff we do makes up for it.

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that some more photos will be on their way shortly.

Hey let me ask you a question.

Do you like it when I post facts about the plants I photograph such as their hardiness, bloom times, whether they are drought tolerant and or like shade or sunlight?

I figure it helps those that are just getting started gardening. Plus if you haven’t tried growing a particular plant at least you’d know by reading the information that I post about each plant I photograph if it would do well in your area.

Filed Under: Garden Buzz, Garden Tips, Photography, Questions and Answers, Recreation, Summer in the Garden, Toronto, Weather related Tagged With: air conditioning, blooming, drought, drought tolerant, flower, flowers, garden, garden information, gardening, green, growing, hot, humid, humidity, information, photo, photograph, photos, plant, Plant Profiles, plants, rain, shade, shower, summer, sunlight

Time to face the heat

by Tricia

It’s almost 9 pm and I’m gearing up to go outside and begin watering my garden.

It’s been a very hot day. It’s finally dropped down to 30 Celsius (86 F) but with humidity it’s still 36 Celsius (96.8). Wish me luck!

I didn’t water yesterday even though it’d been hot all day. We’d watered really well on Sunday evening. I figured I could let it go a day, even a hot day, but I certainly can’t let it go for two days when it’s this unbearably warm outside!

The one good thing about going out at this time is that my elderly stalker hopefully won’t notice me. If she does she’ll come and stare at me while I water. The staring isn’t so bad it’s when she talks and I can’t hear her so I have to keep stopping what I’m doing just to find out that she asked if today was Tuesday or to say “no rain, no rain” again for the third time that day.

She watched Chris and I all day Sunday when we were out getting work done in the garden. I just get irritated when I’m stared at for hours on end. Of course I then end up taking it out on my husband when he’s not who I’m mad at all.

With any luck none of my neighbors will be out and I can get the watering done and be back inside within an hour and a half at the most!

Anyone else having a heat wave?

Filed Under: Garden Buzz, Garden Maintenance, Home and Lifestyle, Summer in the Garden, The neighborhood, Toronto, Weather related Tagged With: elderly, garden, Heat wave, hot, humid, humidity, In The Garden, my garden, neighbor, neighbors, stalker, water, watering

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