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Strange weather

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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.






Yo Yo Weather

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I’ve found the weather to be very strange this week.

It was really hot hear last weekend, but we had a good rain storm on the Sunday and it cooled things down making the beginning of the week fairly pleasant. In fact, with the rain we had on Sunday and the cooler days on Monday and Tuesday we didn’t even think about watering the garden until Wednesday night.

Wednesday and Thursday were fairly hot, but then today – Friday we were back to reasonable mid to late summer temperatures.

However earlier this evening the wind really started to pick up. I mean it’s really windy outside. Windy enough that my husband was eying our neighbors huge Maple and he was hoping that the wind didn’t get any stronger because he really thought some of the tree branches might start coming down.

So you can imagine with all that wind it’s cooled down quite a bit. I expect it will get quite cool through the night.

If the weather we’ve experienced in the past week were a diet it would be a yo yo diet.

It looks like Saturday and Sunday will have temps in the mid 70’s. My husband and I are again hoping to get some gardening work done over the weekend and I’m actually quite happy that it won’t be too hot. I can’t work up the desire or energy to do major garden work when it’s 100 degrees and humid outside.

How’s the weather been in your area?

I finally caught up with most of my garden chores

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The other day, Monday I believe, Chris and I finally finished all the work in the garden that I’d been putting off for months. Ok well not all of it. I still have a few annuals to plant and some of the roses need pruning, but otherwise the garden is ship shape.

It feels good to have it all done!

We should have put mulch on the garden beds by the end of June. That duty was finished on Monday, along with a nice layer of homemade compost. Our plants should be very happy in this heat now that they have a nice layer of mulch to help hold in moisture around the plants and to keep their roots cool.

We pulled out all our solar lights – some still hadn’t charged yet this year! – and I placed them around the plants where they’d get some sun during the day to charge, but would highlight the plants at night.

Chris also pulled out all our torches. You know just like the ones on survivor. We place a few of those in the garden and add a mix of kerosene and citronella oil to the torches. The combo lights the garden and keeps mosquitoes at bay.

We’re having guests from Chicago this weekend and as long as the weather co-operates I expect that we’ll be out in the garden quite often over the weekend. We’ll probably have a barbecue or two, and if it’s nice spend the evening sitting outside at the patio table talking.

I’m so happy that the garden is done. Now I can finally sit back and enjoy it – this weekend.

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