I keep looking out my back window and thinking that soon it will be the perfect time for initial yard clean up. Once the leaves are down I can see what’s really out there. The weeds that like to hide under the currants and dogwood are easy to spot now. I like doing my major planning for pruning and [...]
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Snow in the Forecast
Posted in Notes, Weather, tagged Fall, Mahonia, weeding; on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One inch of rain in an hour means lots of water
Posted in Extreme on October 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
9:30am on Saturday, rain is coming down in buckets. Certainly enough water to do the trick. The photo here is the sandbags diverting the overflow away from my driveway and to the side of my house. There is a stream flowing down the walkway and into the backyard. The adjacent lot is undeveloped wetlands, so [...]
Sandbags
Posted in Weather on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My sister loves to tease me that I’ve been sandbagging again.
I’m the unlucky recipient of my neighbor’s stormwater runoff. This spring I already suffered about $30k of damages from my basement flooding. I’m not terribly excited about a repeat performance. An inexpensive and effective short term solution is to redirect the water flow around the [...]
Wet and Windy Winter Wednesday…
Posted in Climate, Extreme, Weather on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, maybe it’s not winter yet, but yesterday was certainly wet and windy. Yesterday I had one quarter of an inch of rain fall in an hour. Saturday looks to be wetter.
There are a few great weather websites I follow:
Cliff Mass Weather Blog at http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/
Kirkland Weather at http://kirklandweather.com/, which happens to be based about a mile [...]
Midwinter Clean-up
Posted in Northwest Natives, Weather, alternative lawn on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There was a short break in the winter storms, which means here that it’s in the low 40’s, usually with broken clouds. The unusually heavy snowfall is nearly all melted except for a few spots on the north side of the house. I ducked out for about an hour to whack back some clematis that is overwhelming [...]
More bad weather…
Posted in Climate, Extreme, Weather, tagged extreme, Weather on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
…chance of 2 inches of rain per hour during the night.
2 feet of snow!?!
Posted in Extreme, tagged extreme, Weather on June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
2 feet of snow in the mountain passes.
At least I’m not watering my weeds
Posted in Weather, tagged weather; neighbors on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…the water followed my gravel walkway, dumped gravel into my creeping thyme lawn and flooded the small clearing under my fir trees.
55 degrees and Raining
Posted in Climate, Weather, tagged destinations, thyme, Weather on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Weather forecast for the Greater Seattle area: 55 degrees and raining. Welcome to the Pacific Northwest.
