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Post by maryellen on Aug 19, 2018 15:59:33 GMT -5
Little s got me good. Bad enough they stung me, the back kin on my knees are hurtin bad. Just finished with mud, then raw honsu, now baking soda paste.  |
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Post by Sylie on Aug 19, 2018 21:23:55 GMT -5
We are having a few days of cooler weather (low 80's) but it is supposed to go back up into the low 90's. Tonight we are expecting storms all night and most of the day tomorrow.
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Post by seminolewind on Aug 20, 2018 1:42:39 GMT -5
ME, sorry you got stung! I got a warning sting the other day coming too close to their nest (paper wasps) . They'Re pretty smart about things.
It was like 73 here this morning and all I had were tank tops and I had to bite the bullet and find a cheapie shirt in CVS with long sleeves for $13. On top of that they do not give out plastic bags for free or automatically. Cost you 5 cents! Actually, I think carting those 99 cent cloth supermarket bags around is a good thing. They've always done that for groceries in germany.
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Post by dawg53 on Aug 23, 2018 16:38:52 GMT -5
No rain today, unbelievable!
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Post by maryellen on Aug 24, 2018 19:35:54 GMT -5
Nice here today.
My knee is finally not swollen. I counted 3 sting holes that i could see lol
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Post by seminolewind on Aug 24, 2018 21:08:00 GMT -5
Ouch! Sorry ME!
We got the afternoon thundershowers tonight.
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Post by seminolewind on Aug 31, 2018 13:02:45 GMT -5
We've been having torrential rain thunder and lightning every afternoon. Since I get most of my outdoor work done after 3 pm, I've not gotten much done.
Our internet got lost yesterday. Good thing my phone worked and I had a real book to read. Made life easy. But I couldn't get my quiptoquotes printed out. I usually print them all out every few days. It's a habit. Usually a crossword or two.
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Post by dawg53 on Sept 2, 2018 20:21:09 GMT -5
Aggravating passing showers with some thunder tonight, all blowing in from the Atlantic ocean.  |
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Post by Sylie on Sept 2, 2018 22:43:52 GMT -5
We have been having off and on thunderstorms with heavy rain for about a week now. One day we got 4 1/2 inches in less than a day, that's a lot for us to get in such a short period. Another day we got just over an inch in about 3 hours. Most of the rest of the time it's just been 1/4 to 1/2 inch at a time. The storm that we got the 4 1/2 inches in brought tree limbs down, one of them landed on my duck pen roof, no damage luckily but it took 2 of us to move it out of the way so I could let the ducks out after the storm. We are forecasted to get more storms every day this week. I'm tempted to dig a run off trench around the duck pen so it doesn't keep flooding the run, they certainly don't need to have wet feet 24/7
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Post by dawg53 on Sept 3, 2018 5:09:28 GMT -5
I'm glad your duck pen roof wasnt damaged, it sounds like it was a large branch. Give credit to your pen building skills! I dont know what your soil composition is where you live. Would digging a trench wash out/collapse or flatten out with run off due to all the rain? Wouldnt a 9 mil tarp work for your pen? You wouldnt have to cover the whole pen with the tarp. I use them over the top of the pens over the coops and part of the pens. The coops never get wet and they are long and wide enough that they keep the feeders and waterers from being exposed to the rain. I also have cheap drop down tarps attached on the sides of the pens to deter sideways rains. They are located on the outside of the pens for easy access.
We've had t-storms dump 5 inches of rain on us in one hour, typically it's 4 inches an hour. Yeah, for 3 months straight almost every day our yard flooded in the front and back. I bought a flood barrier and several flexible 4" corrugated drain pipes from Home Depot to divert rainwater from downspouts away from the house. I filled in ruts, holes, valleys and low spots created by the flooding rains with used chicken litter, sand and poop. It was an ongoing task but it worked. Our back yard looks like a used chicken litter box! Hahahaha!
I already had a gutter attached to the roof of the main coop. The chicken pens were the only place in our yard that was high and dry, they never flooded.
Earlier in the year I had hauled in truckloads of sand for each pen, it paid off thankfully.
Once the temps cool down some, I'll be hauling in more sand to replenish the pens. I'm not looking forward to it, but it's gotta be done.
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Post by maryellen on Sept 3, 2018 9:11:57 GMT -5
90s today with humidity. Its already 75 and gross out
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Post by dawg53 on Sept 3, 2018 16:34:35 GMT -5
Karen, you ought to be getting alot of rain from tropical storm Gordon. We're getting counterclockwise frequent passing showers off the ocean from the storm, very little wind if any at all.
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Post by seminolewind on Sept 3, 2018 18:08:06 GMT -5
OMG, we've had major thunder and downpours every day. Today was early, 2pm. You are not exaggerating about getting 4-5 inches in an hour. I get it too. I have a hot tub and just measure how many inches higher it gets. It's marked so I'm pretty accurate. I am amazed at how much can fall in an hour. We end up with a few small puddles that disappear in 10 minutes. That's beach sand.
Shavings, hay and straw get you no where. Just gets mucky. Drainage is hard if you need to get some expense involved. Maybe something like a raised bed "area" would work. 6 inches high, filled with sand and rocks, framed. Or just small rocks.
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Post by Sylie on Sept 3, 2018 22:22:35 GMT -5
As for the trench, my soil is 80% clay. The problem with the pen is that the ground can't absorb the rain fast enough and it begins to pond in the entire yard which includes the duck pen. I am lucky that the chicken pen is in a different area and doesn't flood. it also doesn't help that the duck pen is about a foot away from our house so when the water sheds off the roof of our house, it just floods the run. I'm not sure that I'm explaining it very well lol, don't worry about it, I'm mostly just babbling. Thinking out loud kind of thing, It'll work out fine. I seriously doubt that we'll get anymore of that kind of rain or storming. We'll still get storms but not that kind.
If I were to actually do a trench (not likely but if I were...) I would back fill it with pea gravel (sshhhh don't say "pea" in front of my ducks! they go nuts for peas! they'll quack until you give them some!)
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Post by dawg53 on Sept 4, 2018 4:14:11 GMT -5
Sylie, a section of gutter attached to the eve of your house will take care of rain runoff coming off the roof into the duck pen. I've done that before for a flower bed and it works great.
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Post by dawg53 on Sept 4, 2018 4:25:36 GMT -5
OMG, we've had major thunder and downpours every day. Today was early, 2pm. You are not exaggerating about getting 4-5 inches in an hour. I get it too. I have a hot tub and just measure how many inches higher it gets. It's marked so I'm pretty accurate. I am amazed at how much can fall in an hour. We end up with a few small puddles that disappear in 10 minutes. That's beach sand. Shavings, hay and straw get you no where. Just gets mucky. Drainage is hard if you need to get some expense involved. Maybe something like a raised bed "area" would work. 6 inches high, filled with sand and rocks, framed. Or just small rocks. Yeah, I wasnt kidding about 4-5 inches of rain per hour lol! Just think, we were getting it just about every day for 3 months, no lie! That's why our yard was flooding. This ole dawg dont lie (except to take a nap in my Lazy Boy recliner!) Hahaha. Our soil is about 50/50 sand and dirt. After the rain floods our yard, in an hour the water has been absorbed into the ground. We got hard rains last night. I wish the tropical storm would move on. Here's a pic of me and our dog in the recliner. We get some good naps in the afternoons zzzzzzz!  |
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Post by seminolewind on Sept 4, 2018 10:51:32 GMT -5
I've begun calling them nooners, LOL even tho they are later than that.
With a big ride into Tampa today, I'll be needing my nap. I made sure everything got done yesterday.
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Post by dawg53 on Sept 4, 2018 14:14:45 GMT -5
I've begun calling them nooners, LOL even tho they are later than that. With a big ride into Tampa today, I'll be needing my nap. I made sure everything got done yesterday. LOL, that's what we called them in the Navy, "nooners." Loved them zzzzz.  |
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Post by seminolewind on Sept 5, 2018 11:20:21 GMT -5
OMG, an hour of traffic both ways and 2 hr wait for my appt. I was totally exhausted. Fell asleep on the couch, went to bed and fell asleep nose down in a book. Long trips are awful.
Yesterday late afternoon, it got somewhat dry and not a bad temp. Hopefully we'll be getting more tolerable weather. Even if it just cools off at night it's a big help. I can't wait for open window season!
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Post by maryellen on Sept 8, 2018 15:14:26 GMT -5
Please everyone be careful with the hurricanes
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