A Touch of Fall

[digitS']

It didn't freeze!

Lovely clouds moved in about 7am and I am sure it wasn't even as cold as yesterday morning! Yes, this is normal. My planning is for a few days into October but I had a light frost in my garden in August one year . . .

Cane', you inspired me to show you this:


It isn't a very good picture, & if the photobucket gnomes haven't straightened it, it will be even worse. It is a volunteer from last year's seed. It is growing in the bed where the tomatoes were in 2012 & I snapped the picture yesterday. I usually leave 1 volunteer and could have had a better one from near the compost but it would have require transplanting & I was lazy .

See the bush beans across the path? They are as tall or taller than the tomato plant. See all the red ripe tomatoes? I don't either :/. There are the silly yellow flowers.

Sometimes. Sometimes! I get ripe tomatoes from a volunteer that has had all season to grow . This was about the worse performance that I could have imagined . . .

Steve
who was misled by record September highs and had moonlight from that great big Harvest Moon last week. we will see. maybe the garden will survive until there is some warm weather again.

 

[thistlebloom]

Steve
who was misled by record September highs and had moonlight from that great big Harvest Moon last week. we will see. maybe the garden will survive until there is some warm weather again.

A little more of that warmer weather would make me pretty happy. If it rains tomorrow we'll probably fire up the woodstove for the first burn of the season. I usually try to wait until October...but the house was 64 when I came home this afternoon.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Steve
who was misled by record September highs and had moonlight from that great big Harvest Moon last week. we will see. maybe the garden will survive until there is some warm weather again.

A little more of that warmer weather would make me pretty happy. If it rains tomorrow we'll probably fire up the woodstove for the first burn of the season. I usually try to wait until October...but the house was 64 when I came home this afternoon.

We started yesterday. I just could not get warm. I have had a small fire going all day today too. We also never start a fire until Oct. until this year.

 

[digitS']

Hold onto your hats today!

The high winds will be especially bad at higher elevations on into Heather's part of the world. The WS says that winds aloft will be at record highs (during their period of record, '79 to '09). Suppose there's someone who needs to fly between Seattle and Great Falls in a great hurry?

No, I don't guess so . . .

Steve

 

[bobm]

Here in SW Washington, we are expecting 2"- 5" of rain this weekend depending what cloud one is under. This very juicy storm stretches from Alaska down to the Oregon,-Cal. border, and is expected to dump record numbers of rain. We had a steady rain for most of yesterday, last night and this morning. Heavy rain and strong wind is expected for later today, Sunday, and Monday. No flooding yet, but the weather people said that some areas will flood ! What doesn't fall here is headed East. :watering

 

[digitS']

It is raining here now, Bob. WS says that we should get an inch - which is a good thing. I haven't run any water in the garden this week.

It is making me sooo sleepy! I made a nice pot of fish chowder with celery, potatoes and onions from the garden. You know, comfort food. This is NOT the day for me to have a beer with lunch!

I think I can get out of mowing the lawn this morning and maybe even save dealing with the compost until after noon but there was this big kettle of tomato sauce I've got to, at least, get started! Long, slow cook-down p r o c e s s . What!! Yep, up and at 'em!!

Steve

 

[bobm]

Here in SW Wa. ... last Sat. we had 1.33" of rain and last Sun. we had 1.91". ( 3.24" this weekend) It rained again all night and it is still raining ! Some local flooding from runoff, but none here, not even puddles or in the gutters.

 

[digitS']

Altho' I came here from the northern California coast and grew up in southern Oregon, I've lived here so long that numbers like that seem - strange. I'm sure that when folks talk about getting 5" of rain out of a storm, it makes sense to them but it would be unimaginable here.

I see that there is flooding in Tacoma. Still, Tacoma didn't get a massive amount that might fall in Florida or New Orleans. We still think of WA's Puget Sound area as wet, wet, wet. And, it's the Oregon Ducks .

No, just a continuing strong wind here! 45 and 45mph gusts - Crimeinitaly! I'm going out in the garden mud to do a few things today ~ haven't picked the cherry tomatoes in a week ~ but, it is hard to look forward to the experience with much joy . . .

Steve

 

[NwMtGardener]

Wow, these clouds must have dropped all their rain already by the time they made it to me. I was expecting lotsa rain, but didnt get much at all, just cold, windy and very cloudy. And windy! Spent yesterday getting all the garden and patio stuff put away, i have to say that really puts me in a bad mood!! Not only was the weather crappy, but i always feel like that officially signals that winter is here! *sigh*