In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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I'm still waiting for some of my grass seeds to start sprouting. We've got a ridiculous amount of rain in the last 10 days but only about half a day of sunlight. The birds were out there having a feeding frenzy in my back yard about a week ago, so I hope there was still some grass seeds left that take hold.
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Quote:I think you had some birds with tummy-aches in your neighborhood, SIX. That's an everlasting problem: how to keep birds from eating seeds that have been sown. Not good for you, and not good for the birds either, since the seeds are treated with fungicides and pesticides.
Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
I'm still waiting for some of my grass seeds to start sprouting. We've got a ridiculous amount of rain in the last 10 days but only about half a day of sunlight. The birds were out there having a feeding frenzy in my back yard about a week ago, so I hope there was still some grass seeds left that take hold.
I've had entire crops of cosmos, CA poppies, and lupines eaten up by hungry birds! I don't know what the answer is ... lightly rake the seeds in? (Too much work!) Set out a scarecrow? (Birds stop caring after a day!) If you find one, let me know!
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Quote:I suppose the one good thing about rain is that it knocks the pollen out of the air. But then, it encourages mold spores. I hope you're not allergic to mold, Brenda.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Sun today then suppose to rain for the rest of the week.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I think you had some birds with tummy-aches in your neighborhood, SIX. That's an everlasting problem: how to keep birds from eating seeds that have been sown. Not good for you, and not good for the birds either, since the seeds are treated with fungicides and pesticides.
I've had entire crops of cosmos, CA poppies, and lupines eaten up by hungry birds! I don't know what the answer is ... lightly rake the seeds in? (Too much work!) Set out a scarecrow? (Birds stop caring after a day!) If you find one, let me know!
I raked them in best I could, but I didn't have the proper tools for sure. Not a whole lot you can do with a plastic rake, and any of my power tools would have been overkill.
I'm not really much of a gardener. I'm just hoping that some of them took hold. Those things are expensive. Whoever is in the business of selling grass seed is making a killing.
It would be nice to finally get a little bit of sun to see if anything happens. My power went out sometime last night. Must not have been too long because my basement didn't see any flooding. Now I've got to go around and re-set all the clocks again though. GRRRRRRRRRR
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Quote:Oh, you too?
It would be nice to finally get a little bit of sun to see if anything happens. My power went out sometime last night. Must not have been too long because my basement didn't see any flooding. Now I've got to go around and re-set all the clocks again though. GRRRRRRRRRR
There we were comfortably watching TV. I was also checking our bank account online when all of the sudden - blackness. Things flickered momentarily on before going out again. This happens in our (comfortably well-off) neighborhood A LOT, and for no reason that WE can see: no earthquake, no storm, no strong winds ... I mean, WTH??? You'd think SCE could keep the electricity on! Hubby's typical comment is Welcome to the Third World.
Usually juice comes back on after a minute or two - but not this time! Fortunately we have enough flashlights and emergency lights, and have an UPS which powers our modem which allows us to make a phone call out to SCE. It was a "widespread outage" and they were "analyzing the problem" but was expected to be fixed in an hour. IF it had gone on longer I would have run down to the store for dry ice for the frig and freezer.
Heh. I know what the problem is: Equipment that hasn't been replaced in 65 years!
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Well, on a happier topic:
The blooms are profligate this spring. Some of the early-spring blooms (camellias, gooseberries and currants) are still hanging on, while the mid-spring blooms (roses, ceanothus, CA poppies of all colors- pink, gold, pale butter-white, burnt orange and red - are having their own super-bloom in my front yard. Spanish lavender is also blooming like crazy. The later-spring flowers are just beginning - royal penstemon, suncups, cosmos. With so many blossoms in my front yard, it looks a little like the Crazy Lady yard ... yanno, the woman plants flowers of every colors without regard to design. But most of these are there as fill-ins for when the larger, more-restrained trees, shrubs, grasses, and succulents fill in. It's a work-in-progress. In the meantime, I'm happy for blossoms and for all of the bees, hummingbirds, butterflies, and (eventually) the seed-eating birds.
Thanks to the natural and supplemented food, I see so many more birds in my yard than before- scrub jays flitting quietly in for the peanuts, goldfinches, house finches, English sparrows, mourning doves, hummingbirds, black phoebes, and the occasional migratory interloper like yellow warblers and white-crested finches.
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I actually see some grass filling in. Not 10 bucks worth, but it's a start. Probably going to take me a few years to fix my back lawn assuming whatever it was that ravaged it last year doesn't make a comeback.
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A record drought in CA, followed by (nearly) record rain. (It's the second wettest year in ~150 years of historic records.)
I wonder what the upcoming years will bring. I'm leaning towards drier overall.
Originally posted by G:
"I coined the slogan "We Suck!"© many years ago."
G is an avowed Putin-loving, pro-Russian, anti-American troll.
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Quote:Followed by record mosquitoes. Especially the latest import: Aedes aegypti, Egyptian mosquito. Damnit.
A record drought in CA, followed by (nearly) record rain.
They are tiny, but their bites are mighty. NOTHING kills the itch - not topical/ oral benadryl, not cortisone cream, not alcohol, not any of the hundred home remedies that have been suggested to me .... although lidocaine cream helps. I have so many weeping, crusty lesions in various stages that I look like I have some terrible skin disease.
I FEEL like I have some terrible skin disease!
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AND we have a new temporary (possibly permanent) family member: A stray dog that's probably a mix of chihuahua and rat terrier. The closest that I can find online is this ...
"Sport" is fierce with a tennis ball!
We've been seeing her in the neighborhood for a week or so and bedding down in our leaf-pile, but I thought she was "somebody's" dog until I saw her trying to climb our avocado tree to get avocados and realized that she was starving.
So I started feeding her, and she adopted our yard, and then I let her into the breezeway at night to keep her safe from coyotes and she adopted our house, and now she sticks to me like glue.
Today I had her checked for microchips (none), examined (2 y/o or less unspayed female in great health) and given shots (rabies, parvo, kennel cough, distemper) and treated for fleas and worms - all for $20! - and now she can come into the house without her little parasite friends.
I'll probably keep her for a week or two and see if she will socialize with the rest of the family, but if it doesn't work out for us (DD really doesn't like the dog!) then I will give her to a no-kill shelter with all of her papers.
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Quote:Just out of curiosity, BRENDA, what do you do to treat your allergies?
I suppose the one good thing about rain is that it knocks the pollen out of the air. But then, it encourages mold spores. I hope you're not allergic to mold, Brenda.- SIGNY
Unfortunately, I am a bit. So I have to be continuley treating my allergies. Pain in the butt I tell ya. - BRENDA
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"Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake
THUGR, JONESING FOR WWIII
All those guns 1kiki, are pointed towards your beloved Russia. All those cyber capabilities, pointed right at Russia. Thanks Putin, and get ready to duck.
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