In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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OMG!!!! So after I tossed out the seed and peanuts THIS weekend, I saw TWO scrub jays and what I think was a yellow warbler, and of course the ubiquitous mockingbirds.
I was absolutely thrilled with the scrub jays, as they have the prettiest blue on their tails and wings!
Now, as much as I like to pat myself on the back for making such a nice (National Wildlife Federation certified) habitat, I realize that these birds don't ALL live in my backyard! All I'm doing is tempting MOST of them into my yard with extra-tasty food.
No indeed- they live someplace else, and find enough food to stay alive someplace else.
The only birds that "live" in my yard are the hummingbirds and mourning doves (when nesting). The hummers seem to have taken up permanent home in my climbing roses, and the morning doves had a ground-nest under the sage.
The yellow warbler always seems to come from the back-door neighbor's yard, which is filled with the kind of tall (camellia) bush/ short (apple, lemon/grapefruit) tree that they seen to favor. The crows were nesting somewhere in my side door neighbor's yard I think- at least, I saw them a few times glide in stealthily with nesting material in their beaks. - It sure would be nice to know which areas have enough habitat to support some of the bigger birds, especially the scrub jays.
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Planted 2/3 of my modest vegetable garden yesterday too: four tomatoes, seven Japanese eggplant, three basil. Today I'm planting four pepper bushes and two zucchini. The last tie I planted zucchini, the bushes failed to produce a single one. I have no idea what went wrong except the leaves were very mildewed.
Also played (at) tennis- for the first hour and some I was driving the balls pretty hard to the baseline, after that my arm got kind tired and I had to slow my shots down. But for was miserable as my hitting was last week, this week it was spot on and a lot of fun!
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Snowed on Friday and Saturday, which really reduced roadway visibility.
Three weeks ago my Godmother's rhubarb was already going to waste.
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Snow?
SNOW????
Where the hell do you live, Alaska???
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Oh, didn't you mention somewhere that you live in NY state?
I saw that they had some cold weather and graupel (soft hail) at the western end, and snow upstate. Also snow in WI, OH, northern and western PA, and New England. That's a late storm! I hope the rhubarb and all budding plants survived.
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I guess a lot of weird weather can be tied to those bigger "loops" that the jet stream is taking now, and that it doesn't precess as quickly as it used to so those projections of very cold (or warm) weather stay in place longer.
In the midst of the "strongest el Nino ever", February here was ridiculously hot and dry - like August. http://ktla.com/2016/02/09/as-record-heat-hits-socal-officials-warn-of
-fire-danger/
But just a couples of weeks ago, we got a VERY late-season rain, http://ktla.com/2016/05/07/flash-flood-watch-issued-as-more-rain-expec
ted-to-hit-socal-this-weekend/
I'm not complaining about the rain, not at all! I guess my point is that everyone should count themselves lucky if they get normal-ish weather!
And snow in Nova Scotia ... isn't that, like, normal? 
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Snow?
SNOW????
Where the hell do you live, Alaska???
WI. Friday in Green Bay, getting the withered remains of the storm, and Saturday in Niagara - that was the bad visibility.
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Snow?
SNOW????
Where the hell do you live, Alaska??? - SIGNY
WI. Friday in Green Bay, getting the withered remains of the storm, and Saturday in Niagara - that was the bad visibility.
So basically you followed the storm by traveling west to east, along with it?
Did that once, from Detroit to Buffalo to London (Ontario) to Rochester. It kind of pooped out by Rochester.
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Quote:No, you're right. Prolly not May. But I've heard so much about bad Nova Scotia weather, I assume it's usually awful there!
It's normal for winter Sig. But not sure about May.
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Yanno BRENDA, it seems like every time you post about the weather, it's raining.
Did you get a LOT of rain lately? Or is this normal for your area?
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