It's like a blow torch out there! By JR (Read 1,775 times)

[bobf]

Be glad you missed the winds last week.

[wolfhound]

104 here today. Just kickin' back and relaxing in the air conditioning.

[JR]

5:12 p.m. it's 106F down from 108F. Got up this morning to 80F.

Garden is really suffering now. So how do you cook a good meal without heating up the kitchen? Here's how.



Get the old rotisserie out and put a nice whole tender chicken in seasoned up nice and put the hot steamer on top full of veggies. Wasn't a good picture because of the light but there is a chicken in it and in 1-1/2 hours you've got a hot bird and steamed veggies and it's outside in the miserable heat cooking.

Make a big garden salad and it's time to eat!

I've planted various trees all over my place everything from fruit trees, dogwoods, tulip trees, hawthorns, magnolias, blooming cherries, etc. and always the first year is critical in keeping them alive and them establishing a good root system so they will grow and flourish. I like to plant small trees and when they get established they do better and grow faster IMO than larger trees when transplanted.

But small trees even when watered well have a tough time surviving this kind of heat but here's a trick I use that most of the time pulls them through.



I take and put a shade back on the western side of the tree and around 1:00 p.m. they have a shade which takes the extreme heat off of the tender leaves and drops the temp on them a lot. The tree in the above picture is a small magnolia.



In the above picture you can see in the distance more of these I've put up, just drive a steel post and use cardboard or scrap lumber. You can also see how brown the grass is becoming, it crunches under your feet as you walk.



Like I've said the last few days there is a steady wind sometimes pretty stiff and it's just drying it out all the worse and brings in these single black clouds that just seem to tell you, "hey look at me I rained some 300 miles west of you and this is all I am now!"

Well at least it's July the month this is supposed to start this in!

JR

[JR]

Finally a small break, high of 96F today. Just got through watching the weather report and the clouds we had today are being pushed out by a western high pressure front and back to 100's by tomorrow and 105F predicted for the 4th. Only one county in the entire state is not under a burn ban.

JR

[justbuggin2]

those clouds came here and we got some much needed rain to the tune of 1.71 " drop the temp from 101 to 79 degrees feels much better

[JR]

Jul 2, 2012 21:43:20 GMT -6 justbuggin2 said:

those clouds came here and we got some much needed rain to the tune of 1.71 " drop the temp from 101 to 79 degrees feels much better

[scootaway]

Little wonder they say Johannesburg SA has the best climate in the world. Winter at night is at 32f and if there is no cold front daytime is about 50f, no snow and in the summer it might get up to 90-95f

[madcollie]

You tell em Scootaway! ;D

It was in the 60's last night with thunder showers and rose to a HOT 90* today. Almost broke out in A SWEAT! Another breif rain coming tonight, Damn, Hate this YANKEE weather! ;D

M/C

[kz1000st]

Listen MC, after the winter of 2010-2011 lasting into April bring on the heat. I just wear a lighter jacket when I ride.

[justbuggin2]

i enjoy the heat the girls run around with very little on

[JR]

The heat sucks! I like a real idiot decided today I'd ride my 250B to town to pick up a prescription, new it was dang hot and when I got to Perryville the bank clock read 104F. While I was their in the cool store I bumped into a buddy and chated for a spell and walked back out and the same clock read 106F and by the time I got home the sweat was down my back and had even my underwear soaked!

Also noticed my 250B wasn't cycling the fan at all which with my cooling mods it even in the hottest weather generally does. Time for a coolant drain and flush and clean coolant. Gonna put my scooters in my shop and spend the hot evenings waxing and polishing them up for cooler weather. Do a little PM with a bunch of fans going and trying to stay cool.

JR