Rain rain go away go someplace that needs you

[momofdrew]

We have been having rain since Saturday...I think I am growing webs between my toes... it is suppose to rain all week... I need to get the rest of my plants in the ground...
My chickens look like they are drowning...scraggly wet feathers....

 

[lesa]

Us too! I am pretty sure I am getting moldy! I am going to celebrate when I see the sun again!

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

send it my way

 

[The Mama Chicken]

Oh yeah, we could use it here in Texas.

 

[nittygrittydirtdigger]

It's been drizzling off and on all week here. We live next to an 80 acre cherry orchard and the fruit is almost ripe. It can't stay wet when it's almost ripe because the fruit will split and be worthless. So they have to get the water off the trees. Do you know how they get the water off of 80 acres of cherry trees? Helicopters fly about 10 feet over the trees at about 10 miles per hour. The rotors work like giant blow dryers! When I say we live near the orchard, I mean that the closest trees are less than 50 yards from my bedroom. They have helicopter-dried the cherry trees at least six times in the last 24 hours, and the forecast is for rain all night long. I need a nap!

 

[digitS']

. . . They have helicopter-dried the cherry trees at least six times in the last 24 hours, and the forecast is for rain all night long. I need a nap!

I wonder when crop insurance kicks in and the cost of doing that "drying" becomes someone else's problem!

Steve

 

[NwMtGardener]

It's been drizzling off and on all week here. We live next to an 80 acre cherry orchard and the fruit is almost ripe. It can't stay wet when it's almost ripe because the fruit will split and be worthless. So they have to get the water off the trees. Do you know how they get the water off of 80 acres of cherry trees? Helicopters fly about 10 feet over the trees at about 10 miles per hour. The rotors work like giant blow dryers! When I say we live near the orchard, I mean that the closest trees are less than 50 yards from my bedroom. They have helicopter-dried the cherry trees at least six times in the last 24 hours, and the forecast is for rain all night long. I need a nap!

Thats crazy! Never heard of that! There are a number of cherry orchards down along flathead lake, near where i live, i wonder if any of them go to that extreme?!

 

[Southern Gardener]

Please send the rain my way, and cooler temps would be nice too!

 

[seedcorn]

Here in NE Indiana, we've had less than 1" total for May and early June. How things look this good is remarkable. Garden and fields are slowly growing but if it doesn't rain real soon (none in forcast for week), things will change real quick.

 

[curly_kate]

We've actually had pretty 'average' rainfall in SE IN. The temps, however, have been ALL over the place!