Fall Weather

[judy]

I'm with you, Diana. I grew up in an apartment building and they kept it nice and warm. I keep my house at about 72, but I turn it down to 52 at night. My room is upstairs and gets nice and warm from all day.

Janet, you and I have pretty much the same weather.

I cannot believe we are at the end of November, and have had almost no snow, lots of sunny days, and temps in the 40's! We have been very lucky! There's only another 4 - 5 months to get through!

It usually starts to snow in October up here.

No complaints from me! The ski places are suffering though, and it's not normal for the wildlife, so In know it's probably not such a good thing. It is global warming, and that is bad!

[gja1000]

We are hot then cool then hot then cool........ And most of all, WE NEED RAIN! It is very very dry. I sure hope this winter is not dry all season long!

[judy]

Another drought? I hope not, Gayle!

[gja1000]

It's sure feeling like we might be heading into another drought. Actually, I'm not surprised. With climate change upon us, we are projected to become more desert-like. I think that's why I've been in this house for 2 years and haven't yet done any landscape work. I want to prepare for less rain than we are used to so it makes me so hesitant. I'm going to hire a landscape designer to give me some advice because I don't want to make a mistake with my choices. There's a lady who does an organic gardening show on a Sunday radio program who does landscape consultations. I know she only advocates drought resistant plants and I trust her. It's just a matter of doing it now. We also get a rebate from the city for planting drought resistant plants. So, I need to get it done. I'm sure the neighbors think we are such slugs. We took out some bushes in front of the house two years ago and have not replaced them. Oh well, it will be pretty when I finally get it done!

[DianaB]

I read something the other day that says most of the U. S. in in drought. I know that we're low on moisture. We've been getting a little here and there but the ponds are either dried up or very low. Our pond here by the house is at least 5 feet low......it will be hard to get it dried up because it's almost 20 feet deep at it's deepest.

Glen's been harvesting our beans and finally got done. The amount that we usually harvest is way down and my son had a field that they did cut but it wasn't hardly worth doing. However in 1980 we had a much worse drought but it was only for one year.

I hope we get lots of snow!! You know that I love it and it will bring moisture to the fields!!

Planting drought resistant plants sounds like a really smart thing to do!! They look nice and yet save on water!!

[Janet]

We have a light dusting of snow on the ground...yuk! The sun is shining so I thought it would be gone by now, but it's still in the low 30's. This weekend we are suppose to get to the high 50's and on Monday....62!!! It just can't make up it's mind if it's going to be cold or warmer.

I do have to admit that while driving the bus early this morning, it was pretty, especially seeing the beautiful deer out on the snow.

[DianaB]

I'm jealous.......I would love to have snow!!

Right now we're pretty chilly too. We've had a few nice days. I went out on one of those days and washed windows on the outside. I can get the inside later when it's not so nice outside. There's a few windows that I can't reach so I just left them. We have one corner of the house where the basement shows and my bedroom is over it so it's actually two stories tall there so they don't get washed as often!!

I have found that using vinegar and newspapers will leave your windows sparkling......in case anyone's interested.