mattie g
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That's pretty cool to have their first-noted arrival be on the same day year after year!
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First confirmed sighting this morning! A male stopped by the backyard feeder at about 9:00 am.
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Had a nice downpour via a small cell that moved overhead prior to the main line earlier today. Not sure how much I got, but I’ll play along with the drought angle and say it wasn’t enough, despite the fact that we’re unlikely to make up a few inches of rainfall deficit in just one event.
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Depends on what's in your garden! If it's tomatoes and peppers and the like, then yes...definitely too early. If things like broccoli, lettuce, and spinach then they should have been in the ground for at least a few weeks now, so you'd be fine!
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Interesting. Mine is green and lush and just yesterday got second mow in the last 10 days.
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Exactly. This is glorious stuff.
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Have yet to spot a hummingbird at either of our feeders so far this spring, but plenty of reports around.
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You definitely have that right!
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Really the point I'm trying to make is that we don't really "drought." We get dry, but how often are things so bad that we need to think of it as a drought? And if we're like 5" below normal precip over a few months, people start talking about it, but if we're 5" above normal precip over a few months, there's virtually no discussion. I'm definitely playing devil's advocate in here, but referring to dry periods as "drought" does trigger me
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I have places on my front and back that do better or worse, but I think it's related to sun exposure. Probably a bit of family traffic, as well!
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I'm not really interested in watering my lawn. Garden? For sure.
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What I find interesting is that when things are dry, there's this big concern about "drought," but when it's been wet there's basically no discussion about it. I guess that's because there's no term for anti-drought except when there are flooding concerns.
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This weather is glorious. Came back from HHI on Saturday, where it had been 80 and sunny all last week and we pretty much rolled into another week of beautiful weather (after a chilly day or two). Not going to complain.
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OH NOES!
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Or maybe not! I understand people fretting a little bit about the recent dryness, but I won't worry myself over it until and unless it becomes plainly obvious that we're going to bake in the summer.
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I'll take mild/warm and dry through April, thanks. Looks fantastic.
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2023 Mid-Atlantic Severe Wx Thread (General Discussion)
mattie g replied to Kmlwx's topic in Mid Atlantic
Meh. Baseball sucks.- 2,790 replies
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^ I'm down with that. Toasty to start while the pools warm up, then transition to less heat as we start getting sick of it!
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I seriously thought you were referring to a new barrel-aged beer when I read the first sentence. The second sentence disabused me of that notion.
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Last summer, I suggested to the team reps from the other team at our first B Meet of the season that we cancel the meet due to storms. They were training over DC and building towards us (ominously), but while we postponed because of thunder to start and then cancelled, it ended up that we could have picked it back up again because the storms fizzled out. Needless to say, no one was terribly happy with me that day. Maybe if it had been the last B Meet of the season folks would have been fine with it!
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Oh no! It's been so dry!!!!
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2023 Mid-Atlantic Garden, Lawn, and Other Green Stuff Thread
mattie g replied to mattie g's topic in Mid Atlantic
Up-potted tomatoes and peppers and planted the broccoli, lettuce, and mache seedlings in the garden. It's getting real now! Assuming the mid-April long-range looks not too chilly, I'll shoot for getting tomatoes and peppers into the ground around the last week of the month. Need to start on cantaloupe seedlings now!