Mowed the grass today and found that we are up to a rating of 6 to 6 and a half maybe.. There are areas that are still having troubles developing a good grass growth.. Truth is if June would have been more normal we would have had a full lawn by now.. We are without any doubt in a drought, possibly the worst we have ever had.. Because of the area it covers, and some people think it is an anomaly but others think this could be a sign of things to come. Some of the grass is weed, really weedy and although I usually hate weeds at all, this year I am letting them grow, or did until today when I weedwacked a good lot of them.. which means there is a nasty spot by the whiskey barrel.. I'm ok with that, and I was also thinking that this year I will move the reseed date back a little.. Usually the last day for seeding new seed on the lawn was around the tenth of August, this year I will move that to the first week of September. I am thinking about reseeding a lot of the grass this summer but I won't do it now.. I'll wait until mid August and hope the hot dry days are starting to wain..
Here at casa 'pole we don't have central air nor an air conditioner.. The wiring won't support a single air conditioner in any room of the house.. I had an evaporative cooler at one point and it worked fine for a couple of years then it got so humid that it stopped being effective.. One year after I stopped using it we put it in the window in the dining room thinking it would cool the downstairs enough to help cool the whole house.. It didn't work as planned because it was a small space cooler.. My bedroom was as big as it could cool.. I felt like I was being selfish but since I bought it and anyone else could have gotten one as well.. This year a cooler like that one would have worked great up until right about now, the humidity is going way up with the monsoon flow.. Right now is when harvest usually kicks in and right now is when it usually rains.. I'm not complaining about not having central air or anything like that, it cools off fairly well at night, plus if you drink the right amount of water it shouldn't effect you that badly..
The browser issue or rather the homepage issue is starting to resolve itself.. I am messing a little with Chrome a little more.. They have "apps" that are really cool including a speed dial that might rival the best speed dial browser in Opera.. Chrome has a setting that will change the speed dial from twelve selections to as many as 88.. Which seems like overkill.. Right now I am starting to phase out the i-Google homepage.. Deleting at least one gadget a day right now since I have heard of Google getting rid of their homepage design.. I think I will still have Firefox (Aurora) browser be preset with a homepage of some sort.. I will have Chrome and Opera have their speed dial setup.. I hate to rely on a browser like Chrome full time and so I won't. I really like what Chrome has now, it is potentially a really good bordering on great browser.. if it could handle the Weather Underground site I would switch and try to use Chrome exclusively.. But I have been burned twice in the same year, and this year have yet to use it like I was.. Setting up the browser with all the speed dial settings could be a gigantic mistake if it decides to shit the bed again..
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Here at casa 'pole we don't have central air nor an air conditioner.. The wiring won't support a single air conditioner in any room of the house.. I had an evaporative cooler at one point and it worked fine for a couple of years then it got so humid that it stopped being effective.. One year after I stopped using it we put it in the window in the dining room thinking it would cool the downstairs enough to help cool the whole house.. It didn't work as planned because it was a small space cooler.. My bedroom was as big as it could cool.. I felt like I was being selfish but since I bought it and anyone else could have gotten one as well.. This year a cooler like that one would have worked great up until right about now, the humidity is going way up with the monsoon flow.. Right now is when harvest usually kicks in and right now is when it usually rains.. I'm not complaining about not having central air or anything like that, it cools off fairly well at night, plus if you drink the right amount of water it shouldn't effect you that badly..
The browser issue or rather the homepage issue is starting to resolve itself.. I am messing a little with Chrome a little more.. They have "apps" that are really cool including a speed dial that might rival the best speed dial browser in Opera.. Chrome has a setting that will change the speed dial from twelve selections to as many as 88.. Which seems like overkill.. Right now I am starting to phase out the i-Google homepage.. Deleting at least one gadget a day right now since I have heard of Google getting rid of their homepage design.. I think I will still have Firefox (Aurora) browser be preset with a homepage of some sort.. I will have Chrome and Opera have their speed dial setup.. I hate to rely on a browser like Chrome full time and so I won't. I really like what Chrome has now, it is potentially a really good bordering on great browser.. if it could handle the Weather Underground site I would switch and try to use Chrome exclusively.. But I have been burned twice in the same year, and this year have yet to use it like I was.. Setting up the browser with all the speed dial settings could be a gigantic mistake if it decides to shit the bed again..
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