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  1. mattie g
    I mulch with regular hardwood mulch - never thought about straw mulch. As I said, I don't really have issues with blight but might just try some straw mulch in part of the beds next season to see how it goes.
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    That sucks...sorry to hear that. Any disease is a major pain in the ass, no matter the crop! <knock on wood> I've never had too much of an issue with it. I prune all suckers until the plants get to about 7' tall, then I let them go (usually by the middle of July or thereabouts). I also space them pretty well, so those two things together help with airflow and keeping the plants relatively dry. The leaves at the bottom always get some sort of blight as the season goes along, but I try to prune them when I can to help keep it from spreading.
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    My tomatoes are absolutely rocking right now. Best crop in years! Cantaloupe are finally starting to come around, as well. Fall planting hasn't gone so well though, despite really good conditions after planting and ensuring proper soil moisture. Mache is germinating nicely and I have a few broccoli seedlings, but spinach is nonexistent (seems to be a theme for me) and the lettuce is underwhelming. Thinking maybe I should have started seedlings indoors.
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    We *just* got clipped on the very southern end by the last cell that popped in Fairfax County at about 10:00pm. Probably about 0.1" total on the day, which was a little disappointing given all the action just north and west of us. About 1.75" total for the last week. Not bad, not great, but definitely not bad.
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    If he ruptured his Achilles, then his career is likely over.
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    About 0.1".
  7. mattie g
    These anecdotes sound like an absolute blast, but all it took was one misplaced lightning strike and you’ve got multiple dead and injured. It sounds a lot like people yearning for the old days and saying that we don’t need seat belts or bike helmets or other general modern safety measures because “we all survived being kids.”
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    A hair over 1” yesterday in my part of Burke for a total of just about 1.5” over the two days. Feels quite comfortable this morning, as well. Hoping for some of those potential torrential downpours to ride up Pohick Creek today!
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    Just saw 0.40" in the nearest CoCoRaHs to me from that same storm. Only rain we got, but that's decent stuff for a quick hitter.
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    The last two days were some kind of bullshit for MBY in Burke. Got some at about 2:00 this morning as a storm popped over us, but that 10 minutes of rain was it. Hoping we can eke out a bit over the next few days…
  11. mattie g
    Corn fuel. Sucks to miss out today after a period of truly hot weather, but we go again tomorrow!
  12. mattie g
    But his last aleet was because he wanted to tell folks that the Euro output was showing *less* movement westward. We just watch the Euro come out and wait for him to post about it. Every time.
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    MBY is sitting on the southern edge of the SLGT, which always gives me some pause. Better than being on the SW edge though!
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    I hope it's actually running for you! Ours was really on the fritz, so unfortunately we needed to get it done now and not wait. Good thing is that there's a small HVAC company whose owner lives in our neighborhood and whose kids are on the swim team, so we have a pretty good in with them. Took until about 7:00 pm to get the units installed (just the owner working it), but things are working beautifully now!
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    New HVAC getting installed today. Was nice and cool this morning, but it's starting to get a little toasty up in here.
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    Does NHC still only fly the 130s or are they utilizing something like Global Hawk, as well?
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    Maybe Chuck *is* the SPC...
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    It's not at all unusual...at least not IMBY.
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    We ended up with the same management company, but the yearly costs were significantly higher than when we last signed a contract (I believe five years ago). We put a vote out to the community to ask whether they would prefer we limit hours or not to keep the costs lower. In the end, the hours worked out fine, but there was plenty of grousing early on about the slightly increased registration fees. I think we have flexibility in terms of adjusting the open and close dates from year to year, but we'd need to coordinate that well in advance of the season opening. I don't think we were properly staffed with lifeguards yesterday. Lots of our lifeguards are already back with ports so they just weren't available, so those who were there got a little overtime.
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    First week of August in Huntsville. That's nuts.
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    And paying for them. The issue for us is that we reduced our hours slightly for the season in order to keep pool management costs down (we had a contract recompete this year). Extending the season by two weeks is a little tricky because the weather can either be pool-perfect or pretty crappy and you might be paying to keep the lights on and lifeguards compensated when people just won't be using the pool. Yesterday, some of us were discussing maybe keeping the pool closed for the weekdays during the first week or two of June and then staying open for an extra weekend at the end of the season. Seems logical!
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    Hell of a closing weekend at the pool. Place was mobbed yesterday, and was probably the most fun of any days we had all summer! Definitely a bummer to know we won't have any more long weekend days of just chilling with friends around the pool, but it does get us started on Friday happy hours on the cul-de-sac!
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    That looks awful. I definitely wouldn’t want to be your neighbor.
  24. mattie g
    ^ It was really thoughtful of the guy at 2:30 to put his blinker on when he turned into the parking lot.
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    It's going to kind of suck, but we know that these temps will followed pretty closely by more of what we're seeing today. I love summer and hot temps, but once the kids are back in school and the pool closes, I'm ready for 70/50.
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