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The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
Valsdad; Good evening Geno, I hope that the day warmed up a wee bit for you and you're well.
Up here across the medicine line in the frozen north it was about 71°F when we left the house at 5:15AM on our daily walk. It's just under 95°F at present with a howling wind from the north, which might be okay for one side of the wildfire just north of us, but won't be so good for the other side.
Strange days that you got frost in August though, no?
All the best with keeping your garden frost free Geno.
Officially at the airport station in town, 37F. Dew point got down to 28F at times, hovered around freezing for a few hours.
On the table on our back deck, where the sending unit is sitting about 4' off ground level and close to the house: 38F
Here's the kicker though. I went out to feed the chickens, noticed one of the waterers was empty and as it's supposed to go to 90F today figured I better fill it for the day. Went and turned on the hose that goes to the compost piles, which has a shut off valve on the end. Get the waterer, go over to the hose, turn the shut off, just a little stream of water coming out? Waited to see if the hose cleared any air that might have gotten in it. Nope, no hissing of air, just a tine spritzer of water. Let it run for a few minutes and it started slowly increasing in flow.
Damn hose had ice in it, on Aug 11. It runs across the lowest, therefor coldest, spot in the yard, where cold air coming off the ridge behind us settles.
I checked that garden beds, a foot and a half higher in elevation than the low spot, and even the tomatoes and peppers looked OK. The hoops are up over the bed with those in it, I've got more hoops in the shed to go over that tater bed, and the greenhouse plastic will be going up this evening.
Frozen hose before mid August. That's only about 2 months since our last frost.
Any of you folks up north get cold this morning?
Nowhere near icy, but remarked to number two son last night that it actually felt cool. First time since May. Back to nearly 90 again during the day though.
64 F……about 10 or 12 degrees warmer than I would have preferred! memtb
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Valsdad; Good evening Geno, I hope that the day warmed up a wee bit for you and you're well.
Up here across the medicine line in the frozen north it was about 71°F when we left the house at 5:15AM on our daily walk. It's just under 95°F at present with a howling wind from the north, which might be okay for one side of the wildfire just north of us, but won't be so good for the other side.
Strange days that you got frost in August though, no?
All the best with keeping your garden frost free Geno.
Dwayne
Hey there northern neighbor of sorts. Well, at least we're both on the East side of the more coastal mountains and west of the Rockies. Hope you're having a great evening.
Honestly, there was no frost, just that frozen hose that runs through the low spot in the yard. Which, I'll take a guess at, means the garden was probably at about 35F, somewhere between the 37-38 on the porch and the ice in the hose. No frost even on what passes for a lawn here. I may have gotten lucky? The hose didn't freeze solid, just enough to slow flow down to a trickle until the flow when I turned it on thawed it.
Officially a 54F degree swing from low this morning to this afternoon's high temp. That doesn't include the ice in the hose. I've seen 60 or close to it few times, but that's usually been a 40F night to a near 100F day. We've got a few little microclimate areas around here. Some folks regularly are 3-4 degrees warmer in the morning than right here.
High desert living is strange compared to many places, that's for sure. I was just across the seasonal creek where I put in a new garden and by the looks of things I just may get a good crop of potatoes, maybe a decent few heads of cabbage and broccoli, perhaps a few peppers and tomatoes, and probably no squash as I was late getting them in and they just may freeze out before producing.
Enjoy the rest of that BC summer while it lasts. I know it'll change soon enough.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
