Our "Summer" So Far

[Gologit]

7-Day Forecast for Latitude 40.07°N and Longitude 121.56°W (Elev. 4822 ft)

Cooler than usual. Nice.

 

[Samlock]

How do you do a weather sticker? I want one. Please.

That's simple enough. Here's the link: Welcome to Weather Underground : Weather Underground

First step is to type your location in the search box and click "search". Now it should direct you to your local site. Up there, right below the time and date, there should be an option "Make this location a weather sticker". Click on it, and you'll have several different kinds of sticker styles. Choose the one you like by clicking it, then you'll have a looong piece of code. Don't worry about it, you don't have to have a clue, just copy and paste the piece of code on you signature.

 

[slowp]

Thanks. It worked!

 

[RandyMac]

YAY! We have a summer day!
Which on the coast means 55 degrees and fog to the ground.

 

[madhatte]

We had fire yesterday... in the rain. Weird.

 

[RandyMac]

During the drought of 1975/76 we fought fires until February, had a month and half break and went right back to it. We were on the road so much, we had to hit the Ione Regional Center twice for refits, including a new engine for the bus. It was a grand tour of Northern California.

 

[madhatte]

"Traveling much in Concord", as it were.

 

[slowp]

I am gardening, instead of going on a huckleberry scouting hike, because it looked and felt like rain and all the weather reports said we were in for a wet day. I am gardening, in the sun. The front flower bed has never looked so good.

And yes, you can transplant wild daisies. I had read where transplanting daisies is not recommended. I think it was in Sunset. Well, they lied.

I also planted more peas and lettuce. That way, I now predict we shall have Summer and the new planting will not do well. Thank you.

 

[wyk]

Not a huge difference goin' from Oregon to Ireland, well except Oregon actually has a summer

Here we have both kinds of weather - overcast and rain.

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[2dogs]

During the drought of 1975/76 we fought fires until February, had a month and half break and went right back to it. We were on the road so much, we had to hit the Ione Regional Center twice for refits, including a new engine for the bus. It was a grand tour of Northern California.

I remember those years quite well. I was in the cow chasing business during the summers which means water is all important. I remember one of our drilled wells was in a river bed and the water level dropped 26 feet and burned out the pump. We had to check every trough several times each day. The most beautiful girl in the world lived next door to us, she was a ranched raised gun toting, skirt wearing...wait what was I talking about...oh yeah anyway she left the water running one day and drained our 14,000 gallon drinking water tank. We were the last tank on the 30+ mile water line and got by with just a trickle that filled the tank constantly. After the most beautiful girl in the world let the tank run dry the only way to shower was to walk down to the tank and shower under a short piece of garden hose. We all lived uphill from the tank which was on big stilts. We only had a few psi during a good year. I think it took a couple of weeks to fill the tank during that dought. The cattle water was overflow from the drinking water tank into a 250,000 gallon open top tank. We almost drained that tank too. The place we lived was an old oil pumping station from 1906, there were 3 houses standing. I split my time between there, a 7,000 acre ranch 7 miles away and Santa Cruz. Life was perfect even during 1977 when we were in the ashfall from the Marble-Cone fire.

 

[RandyMac]

I'm guessin' you kept tabs on that female.

Marble-Cone aka Ventana Complex, spent 10 days there, rugged ass terrain, burnt hot, burnt clean in places. I broke in new pair of boots there, came close to giving them the toss afterwards.
That drought mostly ended in the spring of '77, at least the north end of the state. In some repects, it's effects linger on, water conservation really kicked in during that time.

 

[2dogs]

Yeah the drought was much worse in '76 but even a good year there was only 16" of rain. Droughts heal slowly in that country. We had a crushing snowfall in January of 1974 that left a tremendous amount of down dead fuel. I was clearing lines for PG&E (Pacific Graft & Extorsion) 2 weeks after I got my first Chainsaw. I never thought about the fuel loading while crunching around in the snow clearing the transmission lines.

The most beautiful girl in the world moved to Southern California and attending college on a scholarship. She studied cosmetology. (I guess that makes her an 'ologist, ha). The derndest thing though... I can't remember her name. I wonder if she still has the necklace I gave her.

 

[MNTAINGAL23]

I didn't even bother to plant a garden this year. Last year the seeds rotted in the ground. My Rhubarb plant is going crazy with all the rain. It has grown from one plant to 3 big ones. The leaves are like 3 feet across.
The Raspberry bushes are full of berries, but hope to get sun to ripen them. Last year the bears around here went hungry because the blackberries rotted before they ripened. Never seen so many green berries in September. This weather sure makes sleeping at night comfortable.

 

[Cedarkerf]

Look its summer today

Look what we can see Patty does this mean its summer for 2 or 3 days? I love the shirt Janis wearing

 

[slowp]

Where are the vicious bears? I had to come into the house. My thermometer say 85 in the shade and the deerflies are out for revenge. Deerflies at home, whoda thunk it?

Summer is here today!

Here's The Used Dog defying death on a cornice on Friday.

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[Cedarkerf]

Kind of summer

Went up to knap sack pass with JM yesterday snow started around 4500 feet then we got fogged in on way down the mountain was socked in.View attachment 193465View attachment 193466View attachment 193467View attachment 193468View attachment 193469

 

[slowp]

Looks nice. I have to let my blood supply recover from camping in a mosquito patch, and then The Used Dog and I will go exploring again.

It is a banner year for skeeters. Neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. :msp_ohmy:

 

[madhatte]

How odd: the wet unit burned good today, and the dry unit barely burned at all. Can't make heads nor tails of this stuff.

 

[forestryworks]

That looks like a dream! Nice country and nice picture!

I like that shirt, too.

 

[OregonSawyer]

Just to even things out....

It hasn't gotten above 65* here today. (At about 500 ft)