I just want to let everyone know the rain has stopped here for now and I'm thinking of going to the grocery store for some milk.

While it's partly cloudy right now, the rain is coming back!
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.ph ... d&state=WA

Seattle is one of those places that will be totally unaffected by global warming. You'll be 30ft under water and just think it's another day of hard rain.

Bob Burd wrote:I just want to let everyone know the rain has stopped here for now and I'm thinking of going to the grocery store for some milk.

If you have the chance, pick me up a packet of crackers please. Ask him to put them on my tab.

Southern States of the UK still unusually mild. Scotland still hammered by almost continual rain, and snow in the Highlands.

After predictions of up to an inch Saturday and maybe nothing Monday in Pine Valley, CA, we got 0.15 inches Saturday and stand at 0.85 inches today, Monday evening. All in all, not bad. Today, I took the opportunity to dig 13 holes with plans for planting 7 jeffery pine (5-gallon), 5 incense cedar (5 and 15 gallon), and 1 bristlecone pine (15 gallon). Nothing like digging in the rain!

peninsula wrote:After predictions of up to an inch Saturday and maybe nothing Monday in Pine Valley, CA, we got 0.15 inches Saturday and stand at 0.85 inches today, Monday evening. All in all, not bad. Today, I took the opportunity to dig 13 holes with plans for planting 7 jeffery pine (5-gallon), 5 incense cedar (5 and 15 gallon), and 1 bristlecone pine (15 gallon). Nothing like digging in the rain!

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peninsula wrote:After predictions of up to an inch Saturday and maybe nothing Monday in Pine Valley, CA, we got 0.15 inches Saturday and stand at 0.85 inches today, Monday evening. All in all, not bad. Today, I took the opportunity to dig 13 holes with plans for planting 7 jeffery pine (5-gallon), 5 incense cedar (5 and 15 gallon), and 1 bristlecone pine (15 gallon). Nothing like digging in the rain!

Wow! All those will grow down there? If so, good on you for planting them, esp. in the rain!
May they flourish and grow.

peninsula wrote:Today, I took the opportunity to dig 13 holes with plans for planting 7 jeffery pine (5-gallon), 5 incense cedar (5 and 15 gallon), and 1 bristlecone pine (15 gallon). Nothing like digging in the rain!

Nice. I've done a lot of digging in the rain, but this year it's kind of nice to be out of room for more trees and shrubs, as well as satisfied with any replacements I did last year. After some frosty mornings last week, the soil soaked up over 4 inches of rain the past 4 days at my place, and over 8 inches fell in some places on the nearby eastern escarpment of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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Some of the cool kids are probably reminded of Rain Man by all of us weather geeks typing away on SP,...

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...but they'd be missing out; the Captain says its time for a long stretch of sunny and warm beach weather.

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3Deserts wrote:

peninsula wrote:...and 1 bristlecone pine (15 gallon).

Whoah, I'm very curious where you got a 15 gallon Bristlecone! Hell, I'd take a 1 gallon, fiver, ANYTHING!

Or did you grow it from seed?

Chalfant Tree Farm right up the road from my home carries 1, 5 15 & 25 gallon BCP's as well as many other varieties of local pines. Moderately priced as well. Got a 15 gallon one just last month and planted it in our front yard where he can look up at his many relatives directly behind our home.

Nice job Greg on the planting.



Over and out.

Over and out.

LULZ

Obviously not out. : )

manfromnantucket wrote:Do people in the military REALLY say "over and out"

Back in the days of regular military HF Coms (middle 70's through early 80's) prior to Sat Coms, that was standard verbiage practice when completing a full transmission. We even had to say "over" after each individual transmission.

I may be wrong but I believe that verbiage is still common practice in today's amateur radio com's.