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Post by missouriboy on Mar 31, 2020 20:54:32 GMT
Spring has sprung full blown here in Middle Earth. Daffodils and peaches are in full bloom. Rebuds are budding. Groundcover is blooming and bees are thick. Clumps of 1880s onions and garlic seeded from bulbils over the last few years are thick and growing like crazy. New crop scattered in compressed mulch layers last fall are 4" high. Zinc-fortified sunshine with pickaxing of new beds raised along the slopes is keeping the virus at bay.  Resetting old landscape blocks uncovered a very young and feisty garter snake. The old folks need to head out into their segregated gardens with their chloroquine, play in the dirt and sunbathe. Would do them wonders.  Nothing like swinging a pickaxe to remind one of their age. Thought I might head off for some hiking in the canyons of Utah ... but the park service, in their wisdom, has shut down most of the parks and campgrounds. But every canyon in the spring is a potential camp site. The tadpoles will be coming out in their little pools below every sandstone spring. The Escalante
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 31, 2020 21:08:08 GMT
I was on top of a grainery today, fixing a lid. After I climbed down, thought to myself. Ya know, I know you don't think you are seasoned. Perhaps next time ask that young whipersnapper to do this!
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Post by missouriboy on Mar 31, 2020 21:16:41 GMT
I was on top of a grainery today, fixing a lid. After I climbed down, thought to myself. Ya know, I know you don't think you are seasoned. Perhaps next time ask that young whipersnapper to do this! Good point. But you'll have to confiscate their Iphone. |
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Post by sigurdur on Mar 31, 2020 23:59:48 GMT
I was on top of a grainery today, fixing a lid. After I climbed down, thought to myself. Ya know, I know you don't think you are seasoned. Perhaps next time ask that young whipersnapper to do this! Good point. But you'll have to confiscate their Iphone. That is also true!! |
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Post by sigurdur on Apr 1, 2020 0:03:38 GMT
My skiing days may have come to an end. I tore my right inner meniscus about a month ago. Grade 3 tear out of potential 4.
Might have to try again next winter to confirm.
Some folks think Covid19 is bad. Wait until they can't ski anymore!!!
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Post by Ratty on Apr 1, 2020 0:33:42 GMT
My skiing days may have come to an end. I tore my right inner meniscus about a month ago. Grade 3 tear out of potential 4. Might have to try again next winter to confirm. Some folks think Covid19 is bad. Wait until they can't ski anymore!!! ... and yet you went up on the granary?  |
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Post by sigurdur on Apr 1, 2020 3:08:42 GMT
My skiing days may have come to an end. I tore my right inner meniscus about a month ago. Grade 3 tear out of potential 4. Might have to try again next winter to confirm. Some folks think Covid19 is bad. Wait until they can't ski anymore!!! ... and yet you went up on the granary? Welllll, yes I did. Might have been the reason I thought to myself, need a young whippersnapper next time. |
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Post by sigurdur on Apr 1, 2020 16:38:46 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Apr 2, 2020 19:28:19 GMT
About 3" of snow so far, continuing to snow. Of course, the forecast highs have taken a severe downturn compared to the forecast from 3 days ago.
24hrs seems to be the most one can expect for a somewhat accurate forecast.
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Post by douglavers on Apr 2, 2020 20:00:38 GMT
Meanwhile, in allegedly sunny Melbourne, we had a month's worth of rain in one day, and winter starts tonight after a forecast 24 degC day. Snowing tomorrow in the mountains.
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Post by missouriboy on Apr 2, 2020 20:28:32 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Apr 3, 2020 1:30:52 GMT
Meanwhile, in allegedly sunny Melbourne, we had a month's worth of rain in one day, and winter starts tonight after a forecast 24 degC day. Snowing tomorrow in the mountains. |
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Post by missouriboy on Apr 3, 2020 10:36:20 GMT
Severe floods hit parts of eastern Spain after 4 months' worth of rain in 24 hours
watchers.news/2020/04/03/severe-floods-hit-parts-of-eastern-spain-after-4-months-worth-rain-in-24-hours/On Wednesday, Castellon received its highest daily precipitation since 1976 after 150 mm (5.9 inches) of rain, according to AEMET spokesperson Ruben del Campo.
It also surpassed values of rainier seasons, such as those of early autumn or late summer, del Campo added.This movement of extreme precipitation southward into the Med. has been occurring over the last 4 years it seems. Does 1976 sound familiar. It should. The Great Climate Shift. Is something now going the opposite direction?
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Post by nautonnier on Apr 3, 2020 21:00:49 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Apr 4, 2020 17:29:09 GMT
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Resetting old landscape blocks uncovered a very young and feisty garter snake. The old folks need to head out into their segregated gardens with their chloroquine, play in the dirt and sunbathe. Would do them wonders. 
Nothing like swinging a pickaxe to remind one of their age. Thought I might head off for some hiking in the canyons of Utah ... but the park service, in their wisdom, has shut down most of the parks and campgrounds. But every canyon in the spring is a potential camp site. The tadpoles will be coming out in their little pools below every sandstone spring.
