What a Diff. Some Rain And A Day Can Make. Pics.

Adirondack case guy · Jul 16, 2012

We only picked up just over a 1" of rain yesterday and last night. This morning you could smell the corn growing. Temp topped out at about 80F, but humidity was at 73%. Hay fields greened up and our garden bolted. I seeded the new lawns over at my dads house, (multipal projects going on). The wifey and I went out this morning and harvested some summer squash, broccoli, and a bunch more milkweed. Wifey froze 5 meals of broccoli, and 6 meals of milkweed. I finished up the steps on the patio and stepping stones up to the patio door. The square bluestone, up by the house I salvaged many years back from a sidewalk, along with another ton of it. It was cut and laid as a sidewalk back in the late 1700s in the Erie Canal town of Fultonville, NY.
The lilys are huge this year, 4' plus, with blooms of 8"

Bob Bancroft · Jul 16, 2012

Loren;
We got .65". Some got a little more here, most got less. Our corn is holding its own. But some was rolled up enough today to make you wonder if it really even rained!
Saw the neat picture from Fred G. of the tractor with your dealer sticker on it. Looked like quite a tractor for it's day.- diesel- 3 point hitch. I assume he'll keep it?

NEKS · Jul 16, 2012

Rain, could you describe what it looks like.

Bruce from Can. · Jul 16, 2012

All we got was the clouds, and you could feel the rain i the air,but not one drop. Now 50 miles south inthe city of Oshawa and west to Toronto, The citidots they got 2" rain fall. Must have done a great job for them of washing all the dog doo doo off their side walks.

larry@stinescorner · Jul 16, 2012

really nice!! where did you find the steps?,they are nice stone

Adirondack case guy · Jul 16, 2012

Hay Bob,
We cut 70A second Alfalfa early last week. Harvested 19T of balage. Maybe the gamble will work and third will come on better. The second was going no where.
I been trying to figure who Dad sold the 400 to. He sold 6-8 of them. Fred didn't e-mail me back with a price.
How are you doing with the army worms. I read the artical in Grassroots about the problems you were having out there. We have had a few since early spring, but not in epidemic portions. Our corn looks much better today. It's about waste to sholder high now. I havent checked out the beans yet. Maybe tomarrow. Kerm and Kevin have been converting the combine from the corn setup to small grain. The oats are getting close, and a neighbor started combining his wheat today.
Loren

Bob Bancroft · Jul 16, 2012

The army worms are long gone- making another generation. Some had some crops devastated. I had one wheat field sprayed, but probably wasn't necessary. Wheat was harvested here last week and the week before.
Your lawn is still green! Not so here.

onefarmer · Jul 16, 2012

Must be nice. Had an inch here but didn't do much. Corn is still rolled up, lawn is brown, beans might be growing some again.

Adirondack case guy · Jul 16, 2012

Larry, If you come up here for a couple of days during planting season we'll load a 50T triaxle trailer with stone and ship it your way, but you gota pick it and load it.LOL. We pick stone like this with a skidsteer and a 4WD tractor, both equiped with rock picking buckets. We just dump it in the wooded areas along the fields. The top step is a peice of granite curbing that I lugged home from a jobsite down in Albany. Only 1 peice of a 3T trailer load that was going to be discarded years back. I used the rest as curbing and steps in front of my house.
The pic. in this thread is more of the 1700's bluestone sidewalk. I milled out pine and turned the legs of this coffee table and fit this peice of 3/4" thick slab into it. I love making something from nothing.

Adirondack case guy · Jul 16, 2012

The lawn is white clover, so it will stay green when dry, and I don't have to mow it often.

SweetFeet · Jul 16, 2012

Geez, absolutely beautiful as always!

Paul from MI · Jul 16, 2012

Talked to a couple of buddies today--none of them knew what rain was! Gonna go to the library tomorrow to see if anyone there has ever heard of it. Pics are great.

Ivan in Mich · Jul 17, 2012

We got a 1/4 inch here in northern mich and everything took off. Much of the corn here has started making ears and tasseled out, the farmers are on the second or third cutting of hay. We have had more rain here than the rest of the state but it is still getting dry.. So far we have picked a few tomatoes and a lot of lettuce and summer squash out of our garden. We got 2 inches of rain over the 4th of July and that really helped

Gchase24 · Jul 17, 2012

Watch what you wish for. We had over 12 inches in less than a week! 5 inches one mornig from 6am to noon. IF I was able I would ship you some of this rain. We went from a drought last year to flooding. Beaumont Texas 90 miles
east of Houston. Still a 40% chance of rain today.

The Dukester · Jul 17, 2012

Yeah, I remember when it used to rain here..sometimes right in the middle of summer....But, no more I guess. Oh well, Michigan wanted to be like California and that's the way it's going...even with the weather.

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