Subj : Wednesday 6/10/2020
To   : Mike Powell
From : Barry Martin
Date : Sat Jun 13 2020 09:42:00


Hi Mike!

 > This morning (Thursday) it's 57. -- guess part of the cooldown after
 > Cristobal wandered through giving about 2" of rain.
 MP> It was 55F here this morning... I loved it while it lasted.  :)

Here in easter Iowa it's 57ø again this morning -- about the same as
yesterday started, just a lot less humidity.  Think yesterday was 
something like 90% which made me think twice about opening the windows: 
letting the cool air in: nice.  Letting in that soggy air -- ergh!  (Did
open and didn't get humid.)



 > Like at your place things are really growing here: yard has sometimes to
 > be cut twice a week.  Have a largish patch of groundcover -- used to be
 > under a maple tree but the tree died a few years ago.  Without a tree to
 > shade the groundcover has really taken off!  With the rain and warm-to-
 > hot temperatures it has _really_ taken off!!  I need to get in there and
 > starting whacking it back closer to the ground so it doesn't look
 > overgrown but other things need to be done first.  Only so much time,
 > not going to do it in the rain nor when too hot.
 MP> Well, we got some rain but nothing like that.  I think it was
 MP> enough to account for any watering I might have done myself, but
 MP> it was not near enough to really get things growing.  We've sort
 MP> of entered a mostly dry spell... hot and humid some days but not
 MP> much rain.  The yard barely needed mowing last weekend, and does
 MP> not need it at all this weekend.  It will get crunchy soon!

<chuckle>  Yes, it will be the usual hot and humid here soon enough.  
Right now the grass needs to be mowed about twice a week; soon will be
lucky if twice a month.


 >  MP> years ago.  If the wildflowers take hold, maybe they will keep
 >  MP> the weeds at bay.  :)
 > If the weeds are pretty allow them to grow too!
 MP> They are not.  Just some kind of wild vine-like groundcover that
 MP> gets tangled into everything in the flower bed if not kept at
 MP> bay.
 
Pull!  We have a problem with Creeping Charlie.  It's not a bad-looking 
weed: minty smell when walking on or otherwise crushed, sort of a 
purple-blue flower.  Trouble is it kills the grass abd everything else.


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