First things first. This not-so-old A&J comic strip is from January, 2015. There’s a controversial subject I’ve been avoiding for a long time, but I might as well bring it up today: the weather. It hasn’t rained where I live since the middle of September. Not. A. Drop. We’re in what’s called an “exceptional drought,” as bad as it gets. The next reasonable chance for rain is a week from tomorrow, according to the Weather Channel website’s “10-day Outlook” which is notoriously unreliable beyond three days out. And it’s unseasonably warm with no frost yet. I am certain that, if not for the drought, we’d still be cutting the lawn a week from Thanksgiving. There. I said it.
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Throw that dish water out on the yard Janis!
We barely got a drop of water from June through August. We then got about 2-3″ twice in August. Things do go in cycles though.
That’s what I need. A dishwasher. Without an electrical plug. Or a battery.
One of our room-and-board girls once suggested we get an automatic dishwasher. I think we both said, ‘We have one.’
Peace,
My, I must have started dancing early. This was one of my favorites from the period Ghost visited. What happened to the saxs? Jimmy Buffet and I would like to know.
Okay, my memory is imperfect. This came out in 1956 so if Ghost heard it, we know he got lost in the 50s and was still around a year later.
https://youtu.be/fBT3oDMCWpI
And yet our President-elect calls climate change a “hoax”. Here on the California Central Coast most of the reservoirs and wells are almost empty.
GR 😉 did you pass me on your return to the 80’s..ya never what those flux thingy gingies can do to a checkered taxi…why they may just put up parking lot…stop right there…it was a big yellow taxi….never mind
I live in southeast Wisconsin and we have yet to drop below freezing overnight and have had no killing frosts. Most years we have had at least flurries by now if not a full snow fall. Between the unseasonably high temps and the regular rain we have gotten my grass is still growing. I may have to mow again this weekend which will be a first – I’ve never had to mow in Nov before. We had record highs last week so shorts and flip-flops are still much in evidence.
Here’s a song from the 80s for Ghost. I used to sing it for my late husband, The Most Interesting Man I’m the World.
https://youtu.be/dg8NPPEms54
http://www.al.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2016/11/see_how_drought_is_affecting_t.html#0
Here’s what Jimmy was talking about.
http://www.mycathatesyou.com/wp-content/gallery/mycathatesyou-gallery-11/012016_decrepito_yonson.jpg
in keeping with Jackie’s cat photo campaign.
Has anyone asked to see his birth certificate yet? I guess that he will release that when he finds that billion dollars he lost in 1988. Thank you Debbe. The cat was funny.
Well, Jimmy, I live in the Pacific NW, where we have PLENTY of rain (One of the wettest Octobers on record), and I mowed last weekend.
“If you think that the grass is greener on the other side you can bet that the water bill is higher.”-unk. “The grass is always greener over the septic tank.”-Erma Bombeck.
I miss Erma Bombeck just like I miss Lewis Grizzard. When they died I felt such sorrow, I had lost two good friends I loved.
Getting surgery clearances and rescheduling all the missed appointments needed for surgery. It is hard being responsible for something you don’t want to do. I have concluded one cannot go through life hoping and counting on having someone to support and rescue you in times of need or questuonable behavior.
Just like stopping an addiction or losing weight, you have to do it for yourself, not someone else
But I am so chicken, I hate pain and pain meds and I am opening Pandoras Box and it contains seven surgeries. They come in pairs.
This year especially I miss Molly Ivins.
I’m glad you’re getting those appointments scheduled, Jackie. It might be less overwhelming to look at it as one surgery at a time. Have one, see how it goes.
It may be a green Thanksgiving for more of us than usual.
Trying to find the historic deepest snowfall that took place around Lake Eufaula on November 14. What year? Jim Canmore and Mike Siedel mispronounced name of town and lake. I used a yardstick and measured on a deck, a glass patio table and out in yard. Fourteen inches.
Jackie: https://snowfall.weatherdb.com/l/8279/Eufaula-Oklahoma
Nope, I hadn’t moved here by 1921. It was a freak snow storm centered on Longtown, Oklahoma which is actually where I live, not Eufaula. Snow was deeper than a q3 inch ruler and I had to get a yardstick to measure.
Here, we are still mowing.
Last year, we mowed a week before Christmas.
Here’s a great plot showing how warm it’s been over North America. Note that the scale is degrees above average. It’s quite warm over the north pole now but colder than normal in Siberia and Europe.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap161115.html
I live in a retirement community, Rick, so lawn mowing and other gardening chores are taken care of by a professional landscaping service, and I expect the lawns to keep needing mowing all through the winter. Of course, Southern California isn’t exactly part of the Snow Belt.