In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Quote:A quiet ahem ... last year we had about 5" of rain. it was the third driest year on record.
Originally posted by Brenda:
And we are back in the rain.
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Quote:A quiet ahem ... last year we had about 5" of rain. it was the third driest year on record.
Originally posted by 1kiki:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
And we are back in the rain.
I'm sorry that your area was so dry Kiki.
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Quote:A quiet ahem ... last year we had about 5" of rain. it was the third driest year on record.
Originally posted by 1kiki:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
And we are back in the rain.
Your State Laws require that about 4.9" of that freshwater be directly channelled straight to the ocean, right? Without being allowed to be used as irrigation or as water supply.
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Quote:Do you mean "rainfall year" (July 2017 to July 2018)? Or calendar year (2017)?
A quiet ahem ... last year we had about 5" of rain. it was the third driest year on record.- KIKI
I hadn't realized it was so dry. I was so busy, it's like I was a groundhog who popped up in late November and thought "Holy fuck! Where am I?". I KNOW summer was ridiculously hot and quite often humid... but of course, no rain. Can you tell me when the deficit was? Judging by my water-use records, I'm only a little ahead of last year (still in the realm of about 33 CCF per 2 months) - but down overall from several years ago (55 CCF per two months), when I xeriscaped the front yard.
Seems like THIS rainfall year is getting off to a slow start too, no? Somehow October - when I really don't expect rain- blurred into late November, and STILL very little rain!
Two-day rainfall event coming up, if predictions hold up. Last time they predicted 0.25" and I got almost 1". This time they're predicting 1.5". Now that I FINALLY have the insurance issues straightened out from hubby's retirement, I'll be checking our rainfall totals more closely!
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Maybe it's a good thing that I watch so many cooking shows. I just discovered a recipe for pancakes that contains no milk or eggs. They come from Morocco. 
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Quote:Oh, sorry - rainfall year.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Do you mean "rainfall year" (July 2017 to July 2018)? Or calendar year (2017)?
Quote:I don't have a month by month graph, but my recollection was that we had an early November storm, and the not much after that. And the rains completely quit early, late Jan or early Feb.
Can you tell me when the deficit was?
Quote:Sadly ... yes. If we DO get 1.5" it'll put us at normal (It started out behind, and the normal total is going up while we wait for the presumed rain to arrive.)
Seems like THIS rainfall year is getting off to a slow start too, no?
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Quote:What's in it?
Originally posted by Brenda:
Maybe it's a good thing that I watch so many cooking shows. I just discovered a recipe for pancakes that contains no milk or eggs. They come from Morocco.
Do you eat beans? There's a tasty savory Indian pancake made of chickpea flour.
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Quote:
Originally posted by 1kiki:Quote:What's in it?
Originally posted by Brenda:
Maybe it's a good thing that I watch so many cooking shows. I just discovered a recipe for pancakes that contains no milk or eggs. They come from Morocco.
Do you eat beans? There's a tasty savory Indian pancake made of chickpea flour.
They contain regular flour, semolina flour, salt, sugar, warm water and baking powder. You don't flip them while they are cooking.
No, I don't eat beans. I don't like them.
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BRENDA - the role of eggs is to bind things together. (Plus, they're one of the few sources of choline which is a necessary nutrient. If you don't eat eggs you should take a choline supplement, usually made from lecithin. I take phosphatadyl choline.)
Anyway ... in terms of "binding power" a good substitute is flax seed meal. It doesn't take much... a tablespoon in whole whole batch of pancake batter.
KIKI- Hmm... yes, now that I look back at my water bill, I see that while it never went really high, it actually went UP during our so-called "rainy season" because I was watering regularly to mimic the normal rainfall pattern. I think there was only one billing period when it was lower.
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