ThomasPowers Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Well that was a short spring; snow last week, Highs in the 90's degF everyday next week. At least the high winds tend to be a constant---gusts up to 50 mph yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Does your Mud season start now? Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Ours has started, rain every other day, the rocks turn to mud, at least it's above freezing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 Humidity will range from a low of 7% to a high of 33%, Precipitation 0" for the next 9 days, (highest "chance" is 8%, 6 days with 0%) I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that term: "Mud"---what's that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Griffin Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 Mud - what you have when you add too much water to your Adobe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 3 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that term: "Mud"---what's that? Mud is the natural state of unfrozen soil. All other is dried mud. You live on the dry bed or shore of the Sundance Sea I believe don't you? Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 Well, I wasn't here during the Jurassic; but yes we have exposed sedimentary layers from that period, crinoids, ammonites, etc. Most of the stuff we are on is fairly recent, (last Ice Age or so), river deposits of the Rio Grande and Mountain outwash with intrusives and extrusives fairly close. We qualify as at the boundary of a true desert with 9" of precipitation a year as the average. Randy; who would ever waste water by making their adobe too wet??? You might as well water the grass! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virusds Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 For us we are just geting sun and in the 60s to 70s every other day and wind the rest of the time. It has rained but not like a lot. That usually comes during the summer and fall for us. Just cant wait for the spring wind season to be over here (which means that it isnt super winy all the time, bug there is no escaping the wind here in southern idaho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 Most of our rain is from scattered thunderstorms during the summer; often exciting to watch; but it means your next door neighbor can get 1/2" of rain and you barely a sprinkle. When I lived in Ohio we could get a front where the whole state got rain at the same time. I remember one storm when we got 6" of rain in about an hour---which would be 2/3 the annual amount out here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Now you're just messing with me aren't you Thomas. I only pointed out you live on the DRY MUD of the Sundance seabed, not that you're a denizen of the Jurassic. And what are alluvial deposits other than mud that's settled down? Heck I'll bet plenty of samples would show recycled mud. Come on Thomas I'd like to slate one up for you but your arguments aren't for schist. Frosty The Lucky. Schist definition is - a metamorphic crystalline rock that has a closely foliated structure and can be split along approximately parallel planes. a metamorphic crystalline rock that has a closely foliated structure and can be split along approximately parallel planes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Sells Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 39 minutes ago, ThomasPowers said: Randy; who would ever waste water by making their adobe too wet??? You might as well water the grass! remember while the flesh belongs to the person, the water belongs to the tribe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 Steve; my wife has my water rings. Ha, the Jurassic was just a walk in the park! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Sells Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 I gave mine to Cherese about 27 years ago, which reminds me what should I get her this time around... hmmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 27, 2020 Author Share Posted April 27, 2020 I always give my wife her present on Father's day as she is the reason I am a Father. The kids give her their present on Mother's day. According to one list the 27th anniversary gift is Music, (29th is tools!) Another list says Sculptures...got your welder or forge handy? Ours is Antiques...(Takes one to know one?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Sells Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 June 17 is the 25th wedding anniversary (silver?) so many years it is on Fathers day, the 27 years is for the water rings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Today started out nice & sunny so I decided to mow (more like brush hogging) but the battery was dead on the zero turn and wouldn't take a charge. Off to the battery place for a replacement. Got it running around 1400 hrs. so I'm merrily zipping around the yard. Got about 3 acres of weeds mowed and it started getting cold and damp feeling. I looked off to the west and a huge thunderhead was brewing. Got the mower secured in the new addition just in time for the wind, lightening and rain to start. It's a beautiful day in the Ozark's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 28, 2020 Author Share Posted April 28, 2020 Always a beautiful day when it rains! (Out Here). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Rain's good, especially in early spring. Right now the snow is mostly gone, rivers are breaking up, ice jams are flooding low areas but what makes rain a good thing is nothing is greening up yet so there are thousands of sq miles of dry grass, dead leaves and ground cover. Most of Alaska is a tinderbox so any rain is a good thing. Where we live in the Matanuska Susitna Valley we almost never hear thunder let alone see lightning. That's just here, we get hundreds of lightning strike fires every season, dry lightning sucks. Rain good, wild fire B-A-D. Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share Posted April 29, 2020 Yup we have been under a Red Flag Warning lately: High Heat, Low Humidity, High Winds: no open burning allowed! Of course our neighbors burn their trash anyway. Their business except it contains a LOT of plastic these days and I dislike having to breathe their smoke. Our house has a steel roof and stucco walls so is good for "minor" range fires. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Yesterday was hot and humid. Around 90°. Got the tail end of a storm last night. Now the wind is out of the north with gusts around 30 or 40 mph. It's a crapshoot with the weather here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share Posted April 29, 2020 At least the trees are pretty much all in leaf out here and the University is watering the grass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 CGL you got the tail end of the same storm that went through NW AR & SW MO, we had 60 mph winds, driving rain, tornado warnings and a nail biting half hour. Lucky for us it was moving pretty fast and we didn't have any damage just a lot of heavy rain and straight line winds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Irondragon It was forecast to be bad but it literally just skirted around us. Got a little rain and a lot of lighting, but that was it. I'm glad to hear y'all got through it without damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Sunny and nice again today. Early Birch is beginning to bud, noticed it this morning. Early Birch is maybe 40' West of the front porch and buds, greens up, shows fall colors about 3 weeks sooner than any other birch around. Supposed to rain Friday and clear back up in a day or so. Red flag burn ban still in effect. Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goods Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Weather has been pretty strange here, but had a nice surprise today! darn that rotation thing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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