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Ultradog MN

Ultradog MN

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Now it's mild days, cooler nights and a bit of wind and rain.
The little helicopters on the ginala maple are past their bright red prime and are drying out and turning brown. The squirrels are stealing the walnuts from the tree and leaving the husks on the trailer.
The thistle down is blowing in the breeze.
Friends are offering their extra tomatoes and the big Colorado peaches are in the grocery stores.
The cicadas didn't sing this year but if they had they would be done now that the dry heat is gone.
And the muskrat has started building his winter abode in my pond.
Summer is over...
 
Say it isn't so !! I have been waiting two months for it to start. Walmart thought summer was over at least three weeks ago , and put the summer cloths on sale . Wife bought me some new shorts for working around , 7 bucks a pair. It is all Back to school sales now, then straight on to Christmas, lol.
 
Not down here... we have to not only get through the heat of September but it is also prime time hurricane season, which officially ends Nov.30th but the threat of a major one will pass as soon as the first real cool front pushes into the Gulf. It wont be long before all the hummingbirds that are up north will show up on their way south for the winter.
 
Sadly, it's true.

Up at the far end of the farm Sunday, a few of the wild vines had already turned brilliant red.
 
Numerous signs in nw al also. Thistle here bloom and produce their seeds in june. Acorn crop is huge with some already dropping and deer browsing them in the yard. Tomatoes already gone and late transplants refuse to grow. Okra plants tall and only leaf out in the top. On a good note though, new SQUASH plants are doing good.
 
Not here yet. A few red maples are turning but those fool things always turn in August. Personally, if they are so darn set on an early winter, I would cut them down for fire wood. Another weird weather year is all. Fooling some of the plants to start the process a little too soon.
 
We're in summer here till at least October unless we get lucky and have an early cool snap late September, living about 50 miles from the gulf coast in south Ala is miserable this time of year
 
I'll be glad to see summer gone. It will mean no more 75 degree dew points and heat index of 110+. No insects, no snakes, no yard to keep, and no high electric bills. The last couple of summers have been more like what they were when I lived in Louisiana.
We are far enough north that we can have some pretty deep snows and a few days of zero degree nights but usually they never last more than a couple of weeks. My daughter lives in Wisconsin, she said she will never come back to the south because of the summers. When she gets older she may change her mind.
 
My neighbors tree always is an indicator for us. It now has color.
I am not a farmer but I love the insight you all offer. God bless you all. I love this blog.
 

Plenty cicadas out east here in Maryland. Waves of noise, you get used to it, but if you stop to listen it sounds like crazy electric static coming from the trees. Hope they're having a good time. Odd thing is--when the eclipse started they all went silent. Heard a few birds, but everything was very subdued.
 
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