How hot is in here your ask. Well its now 11:15 pm and its 86 degrees with a heat index of 90. Our high today was 98. Welcome to Austin hot!
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I know its been a while. Got back from my trip last week and promptly got sick. I'm getting better thank you. Well talk about Texas rain. Last night, around 12:45 AM we got rain. We got 1-1/4 inches of rain in a bit over an hour, maybe an hour and a half. At least we've had rain, and we still need it.
This is Memorial Weekend, and its raining in Austin, Texas. We had about 1.25 inches yesterday here at the house, and its raining again today. I don't know how much rain we will get. It is very much needed, no question there. But it is still strange. If it were any cooler I would think I was back in Washington state. As is, we are in the 70's, ranging from the low to high. But I'm sure all the plants will be happy for the rain. This time of year I don't think they expect much rain. But its here. With the drought, plants and the reservoirs will be happy to get the much needed moisture. And it hasn't all been those heavy downpours either. Yesterday we got about the first inch of rain in one hour. Then it was just kind of slow and drizzly. It didn't rain overnight. But this morning it started up again and its been slow and steady. Just the kind of rain I would see in Washington. But at least it shou...
This weather is making no sense. We had rain last week, then dry. Then this past weekend it began clouding over. Right now it is cloudy, kind of misty, but 68 with 91% humidity. At least the good thing is its nice weather for gardening. Not too cold, but not too hot either. I went over to my neighbor last week to see her iris' in bloom. She had given me some rhizomes last fall which I attempted to plant. Attempted since the deer insisted on pulling some of them put. Well, it appears they are growing. This one is blooming in my garden. Some of the others have buds, but have not quite bloomed yet. We can hope. The roses I had purchased online are also blooming. Here's three of them. Right now they are in pots, that's the best I can do. But they seem happy. Hopefully soon they will get a better planting. The greenhouse has been well worth the time and trouble. I'm not sure wha...
The weather must be changing, even if it doesn't seem like it sometimes. Last night we saw our first scorpion in the house. We don't get a lot of them, but because of where we are we do get scorpions. We do have a pest control system built into the house walls so that keeps most of the bugs away. But last night I saw the first scorpion of the season in the house. Bill stepped on it since I was barefoot - no more worry about that one. But we must be changing seasons for them to show up. The weather has been strange. The past couple of days have been overcast but warm, in the 70's. Last night only got down to 62, so that is a change in temp. Especially since earlier this week we had night time temps down in the low 30's. They keep saying we may get rain, 40% chance for tomorrow, Easter. We even have a 50% chance on Wednesday. I'm not holding my breath on it, we'll see if we actually get any. But it is overcas...
Go figure. Yesterday (Friday) they said today's (Saturday) forecast was a high of 86. That has now changed to a high of 70. It's already noon and we are not even up to 60. Hopefully we'll get to 70, but we'll see. The deer are not happy with the fence. They keep coming up to it and looking in, like kids staring at a candy store they can't go into. I figure they'll get over it. But we did get a bird feeder up. And the birds have already found it and are coming. We did find some old niger/nyjer seed. The birds won't eat it but we put some outside the fence, just trying to get rid of it. Well the deer like the niger/nyjer seed. The greenhouse is doing great. The squash plants have blossoms so hopefully we will get squashes soon. The herbs are doing very well. Even the berry bushes are putting out new leaves and growth. I have had one unusual problem. I set some seeds out on a tray, it came with those compre...
Go figure. I planted how many daffodils and only one came up. I know, be thankful I got one. Maybe the others will bloom. But its mid March and that's the only one so I'm not real hopeful. Maybe we just didn't get enough cold. I don't know. But the fence has come along nicely. Its 6 feet tall and will hopefully keep the deer out. That remains to be seen, but we can hope. supplies construction lots of fence portion of front fence I'm rather excited about the fence. I'll be able to actually put plants out in the yard. I'll be able to plant the new roses. I'll be able to get some stuff out of the greenhouse! Now if the deer will just cooperate and stay out.