So you think it is Hot What to do

 

 Besides some drip irrigation  well timed for the garden.  Refreshed the
bird bath and turned off most electric  this soon. about 103 and dew
point 62 F.


http://www.pbs.org/lawrenceofarabia/revolt/clothing.html

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Bill  S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
     What use one more wake up call?  
 

 


Been hitting 101+ here in PA the past few days.  Running the soaker
hoses for three hours at a time every three days.  Sure don't want to
lose the tomatoes and all the other goodies.  Let's pray for about three
days of a nice steady soaking rain :)

Rich From PA

 

 White_Noise_1@webtv.net (EVP MAN) wrote:


Like "they" say, "Ain't no atheists in foxholes."
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/2/maude
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/28/naomi_klein_the_real_crime_scene

 




    Rain stopped; sunny. Laundry dry. 90° right now; rh 52%; dewpoint
70°. Mostly sunny. Garden drying; from front porch, I spy pollinators
enjoying the baby lima blossoms, a good sign. A couple of days' good
Earth-drying time and I'll finally get those damnable onions out of the
ground. This automated data collection point is between me and NBT but
near-enough to my gardening area to reflect reality. WARNING, this link
will provoke Excel-equivalent to connect to W3.  The site is safe, I use
it daily. Times are UTC; this time of year, we are 4 hrs earlier.
<http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/cgi-bin/wxobservations.pl?site=KBKV&days=7&type=.iqy>
Timeliness of the data is variable but it's rarely more than two hours
old. Historical averages from the same geographic site
(Brooksville/Hernando Cy airport) but from "official" sources may be
found here:
<http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather.php3?sh437&refer=&units=us> .
    Gotta feed that hanging fern with the antler shaped leaves today
(due last Sunday but rained out 'til today); and Bt those striped
crawley things that are eating the snap bean leaves.
    We have two self-filling watering/bathing stations that the birds
use; cats and raccoons, too, as long as they can stand the bird poop but
the cats have access to rain water (by far their preference) that the
birds and 'coons do not. Of course, there is at least one watering
station, used by insects and cats, in each veggie bed. A boon to the
beasties during Florida's normally dry spring. I've found that water
white or stainless steel colored, relatively deep bowls work best for
the bees and wasps while attracting the fewest (remarkably few,
actually) innocent bystanders to their deaths.
    Your clothing reference is interesting. From the site:

evaporating >too quickly and slowing dehydration in hot, dry air.
Have you tried one?
--
the Balvenieman
USDA zone 9b, peninsular Florida, U.S.A.

 



  I wear a large hat if I will be about in the sun as I know what
melanoma is .  On being cool I find it interesting that where I may go
with a cool green tea those hot Arabs go with hot coffee.  
 My clothing is just reduced to less is best but I see all these images
of robes and wonder perhaps they know what is best in desert climes.

--
Bill  S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
     What use one more wake up call?