Snow predicted for tonight! Yikes!!

Sister i hope you have room for one more cause i'm coming over i'm sick of this hear

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Beats me how the newspaper works; it just does. Old timer way of ripening green tomatoes. Just be careful not to forget about them - my sister did one late fall and had a mess. Check often. I've done this in a basement and in an old unused upstairs bedroom and an attic. Worked every time. Used to even take up plant root and all and hang it in unused side of garage to let ripen. Worked great.

snow in august? kiss your garden goodbye already!! yikes, we picked a bushel of tomatoes today and I canned spaghetti sauce all afternoon!! I can't imagine not having at least something in the garden up until Oct. at least. Can you folks grow brussels sprouts? It's just too hot here, they need cold weather so that they mellow before you pick them and they usually just wither before we get any frost.

I thought it was cold here at 37 degrees this morning! I can live without snow for a bit...it did get up to 80 and it was a perfect day.

The only cold I get is inside, with the A/C blasting...
yep, good ol Texas...
Still too hot to think about a fall garden. Maybe I will try to get one in in september.
Ya'll box up some of that cold air and send it down. It's just hot here.

We got that wonderful 10 days of rain from TD Dennis, and ever since then, it's been horrid, 95-100* heat wave. We've had heat indexes of over 100. Not normal heat for summer, this is different. The sun burns you outside, and I can't remember ever being this hot up on this hill, it's usually quite nice up here even throughout the summer months. Everyone in KY says this beats any hot summer we've ever had. Just working outside here, you are soaking wet with sweat, and that is not normal for here. I worked on a ranch north of Houston years ago, and that is what this feels like, south Texas thick heat. Our horses here have never been wet w/sweat just grazing in the pastures before.

We don't have A/C, and I've tried shutting all the windows and doors early in the morning, after the fans blow all night, and the house just gets hot by noon. Steve got one of those portable A/C's from Lowes, but there is no way it will cool this big old house, & I am not really wanting to see an electric bill with it running, even if it's just afternoons. Windows go back open at dark. Now our electric bill is $75, allot of fans in barns, house, 220 on the well for all the water for stock (which is about double). Please tell me this is just a freak summer, and not a picture of things to come! The cool, green Kentucky bluegrass will cease to exist if this keeps up.

Well, the sultry Texas weather is even worse than it was.... I think we only have to walk outside to break a sweat. Had our sat. internet installed yesterday at 9 am, the tech was dripping by the time he was done, 10 a.m....
I do hope this isnt going to be the norm. East Texas is usually not this bad. The heat ya'll are getting northeast of us is milder than what we are getting.
We just got back from a quick trip up through Ark, Tenn, S Carolina, Georgia and back across Ala, Miss, Louisiana and to Texas. The further south the hotter it was. Tenn was cool compared.....
I'm ready for winter. dont even know if we are gonna have a fall, the leaves are already falling, as the trees are too dry. I live in the woods, and there are more leaves on the ground now than in October. Lost several of my pine trees in the yard too...
Ready for the heat to stop!

It's chilly this morning; I love it! Got down to 56 last nite. Breezy and distinct chill to air today. Reminds me of my fave season; fall. Have a great Sunday all!

After two weeks of sunshine and some heat it's cloudy and rainy out today. I guess it's about 12 (hold on, let me convert that.... about 53F) and I have a cardigan on. It never gets much warmer than about 25-30c (77-86) and when it is... everyone complains about the heat. We are not a heat loving people.

Snow on your garden? Cover it all with hay and let it snow! When I lived in Victoria I had lettuce growing in November. WE had a crazy blizzard in '96 of about 4 feet of snow. It melted about 4 weeks later and there was my lettuce. Wilted, but putting out new leaves as soon as it saw the air!

I am jealous of all tomato growers. I havne't been able to grow tomatos up here since we moved.

babs

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