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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
You’re kidding!!! That’s where I was showing. I wish I would have met you. You wouldn’t happen to have been there for the evening session would you?
The 80's? I just wish it would get back down to the 80's. We have been mid to high 90's for weeks and NO RAIN! Some parts down here are 20 inches below average rainfall.
I know you have it worse and that I would get very little sympathy complaining about how hot it is gonna be here :~)
90’s is about as hot as it ever gets here, and I wilt... even in the shade :~)
65 a horse, every six weeks regardless if they need shoes or just a trim. I get my money worth with the boy though. He’s always throwing one.
Mine has a ways to drive too but he makes rounds and I’m just part of his stops.
Probably no more than anyone else. There is no sensation in reporting on law abiders though.
It take a lot of effort to saddle up and go riding when it is this hot. Luckily the humidity has not been that high. We rode last weekend and the trails were well shaded and there was still water in the creekbeds so it was not to bad. I just worry about the hay situation this fall.
And this is a different kind of Elephant Ear, the picture on the package of the bulb showed them to be black, actually the stem and veins are all that seem black, maybe they will change as they age...but the leaves are huge.
And some regular Elephant ears to see the difference. I love them, and they are easy to grow.
Becky
Pretty! :~)
Those hibiscus flowers are really big, aren’t they?
I went out and picked off every flower off my petunias and geraniums, they were all soggy from the rain and it might set them up to be in prime shape when our company comes if i prune them all now.
One of the petunia varieties we planted is supposed to be some kind of new double flower. I have yet to see it produce a good flower... they’re growing all kinds of PLANT, huge healthy plant, but no flowers, and the one or two blooms that have tried to form were deformed. I’m not sure yet if they’re going to do anything.
Rocky's side.
What I still have left to mow on his side. I've been out there mowing now, but I just can't push the weed eater thru the mud anymore, this part will have to wait. In fact this is the first year that much grass has grown out in this area at all, I'm guess the rain, so I guess I shouldn't be complaining about it. I'm going to have to do a lot of picking up of dead branches still out there from when the barn ripped thru there before I can mow it anyway.
Harley's side. The front part I can do with the riding mower, it's where the arena use to be and is smooth enough that I don't hit any rocks. About where that one tree stump is, on the left the little clump of what looks like weeds still there, and back I have to use the weed eater. Too rocky. The weeds back there were all about the size of whats around the dead tree.
And my impatiens today.
Frog, and Blade, this is the best I can do to help you out on your drought, is send you a picture of our rain.
Becky
Have you seen this thread:
http://forum.horse.com/tm.asp?m=374052
I don’t get it...do you see anything that would have made someone call the mod? Geez, people over there are sensitive, or am I just calloused from FR:)?
Becky
I did see that. Overly touchy if you ask me. I don’t necessarily think it’s you the mod is jumping on. I almost jumped in there on that issue because bending the horse into the circle, and angling the horse outside the circle, both work, though for different reasons. It’s one of those things that’s hard to articulate, so I deferred out of laziness. Might be just as well ;)
Oh come on, get in it and keep it going:)...it’s raining here, I need a good hot discussion:)
Anyway, I was trying to be tactful...I said there was more then one way to train. And I’m not the one that first used the word “nonsense”. That poster was asking for it using words like that.
Becky
I agree... I don’t think it’s you who was overly snippy - this time! :~)
Wow! That hibiscus is gorgeous! The elephant ears look really great too. I really like the black ones, but I think that it takes lots of direct sun to make them get dark. My elephant ears look pitiful. They got nipped by a late frost and then they’ve been burned up by the drought. They’re not even knee high and not much bigger than my outspread hand. Now my red caladiums are doing great. They’re in clay pots and get watered every day so they’ve kinda got an advantage. I’ll have to take a picture to show you my little seating area/garden out beside the house. It’s looking pretty good now. The yellow marigolds I planted in the raised rock bed aren’t all that big, but they’re doing ok. They must be a dwarf variety or something.
Those impatiens have really shot up there with all that rain! Your pastures are looking really good too. I wish I had something to mow. But I guess for now I’ll have to make do with your pictures of rain coz it don’t look like we’re going to get any anytime soon.
“This time” :) when am I ever snippy:)
Becky
That’s pretty much how my garden was last year. Burned up.
IF we ever get any sunshine, those elephant ears will get some afternoon direct sun. I hope they darken, I thought the picture of them pretty cool.
Becky
~chuckling~
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