Posted on 03/19/2010 6:24:33 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
I have my own well. It costs me only the electricity to pump it, except about $1000 for a new pump about 10 years ago. We’ve been here 23 years, so that is pretty cheap water compared to the folks in town connected to the water system.
Normally, however, we don’t “water” except when planting new plants, or everything in pots. We get enough rain to keep everything green and growing. Despite heavy snows at the beginning of winter, we really did not get so much snow this year. I hope that does not create a problem for the local farmers who have never heard of irrigation. Last year was a wet, cool year, so perhaps there is enough moisture in the fields for the new crops. The corn was late and a lot of it never got harvested because the snow came early.
But, putting in a new garden, I can see that I am going to have to hook up the water from the house earlier than usual. The hose connections are still covered and insulated for winter.
My back property line is Cedarburg, so that's as close as I can get!
Of course we have wind, so it actually feels colder than those temps imply.
We got a forecast tomorrow of thunder snow storms. I really hate those! You get baked and frozen at the same time!
I am so deprived. We either have rain or fog or some years we may have fog and rain...
Flurries tonight and off/on for the next week. No daffils flowers yet - but we did pick up 3 flats of pansies at Costco and plan to get em in the 2nd week of April.
To all of you who see flowers and are planting in your garden - pppptttttttttttt.
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Where are you located? My daffodils on the south side of my house are blooming like gangbusters. I haven’t finished cleaning out the dead chrysanthemums yet so that we can see them, and the temps have dropped so far that it is unpleasant to work outdoors. Gotta get busy.
We could get rain over the weekend, but not much.
I should have noted that I am north of Milwaukee about 10 miles.
I’ve lived in Central Oregon (Bend) for 9 years after living on the southern coast of Oregon (Bandon) for 20 years. I’m at an elevation of 3700’. Mt. Bachelor (skiing) and the 3 Sisters mountains, all are over 9000’, sit just to my west and are visible from my house. This region is appropriately called “high desert” w/sage, rabbit brush and Juniper Trees. We’re also known to be a recreational paradise w/hiking/fishing/skiing in abundance plus clean air - we pretty much have two seasons - 6 months of winter and 6 months of summer. Summer’s are perfect with highes in the 80’s w/low humidity (around 20%) but winters are long and cold and cold and long. We had hard frosts every 6 weeks last summer -
Ouch! When we lived in WA State, my son used to ski down there. I didn’t realize the climate was so harsh. I always think of Oregan as mild and damp. :)
See ya on the new thread.
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