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By Chile Doctor, on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013, at 5:00 am
We’re getting a good rain event, yesterday afternoon and today. I’m hoping for an inch of precip, maybe more. I’m tired of watering already! I’m also hoping this is a sign that the predicted severe drought will stay away this spring. I’m not confident, mind you; simply wishing.
The lows the next two nights might be […]
By Chile Doctor, on Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013, at 8:30 pm
Man, I hate it when that happens. A late freeze, I mean. I’d already declared Winter dead and Spring sproinged back in mid-March when the temperatures reached about 90 hereabouts. That’s hot enough, right? Now way could it freeze again after that.
Dang Global Warming stuff.
I had 30+ tomato plants out, a large area of radishes, […]
By Chile Doctor, on Saturday, March 10th, 2012, at 2:00 pm
Just when the compost arrives, and the cheap hired help gardener daughter comes home for Spring break, and the baby plants are poking up nicely, wouldn’t you know it: It rains. Like it hasn’t rained in years. I get everything going my way for once, and that’s when the clouds open up. Sigh.
We’ve had two […]
By Chile Doctor, on Sunday, February 5th, 2012, at 6:30 pm
Stew? A hearty soup? Chili? Maybe something from the slow cooker?
I like any of those choices, and since it’s usually indoor time when the weather’s nasty out, cooking’s a joy. I take my time and check the dish regularly while I work on fiction or something equally gentle. We don’t have snow down here, thank […]
By Chile Doctor, on Saturday, February 4th, 2012, at 4:30 am
And I didn’t even have to get nekkid and dance in the yard. (Good thing too; the neighborhood watch has me on the list after that last little misunderstanding, I think.) After the last several years, when we’ve been very dry at this time, it’s nice to actually be ahead of schedule for moisture for […]
By Chile Doctor, on Friday, February 3rd, 2012, at 4:00 pm
The weather here’s been warm, at least for February. I’m not saying I’ve put the coats away yet, but some of the trees are thinking about budding out. It’s way too early for them, of course, and if they do they’ll likely get bit in a late frost; but hey, it’s their choice, right? At […]
By Chile Doctor, on Tuesday, July 26th, 2011, at 8:00 pm
All we need is to conjure up some tropical something in the Gulf and send it to Alice, TX. Then we can maybe get a bit of relief. Nothing big and disastrous, thanks; just wet as all get-out and slow. Very, very slow once it gets onto land. If it’ll just spread out and […]
By Chile Doctor, on Tuesday, May 10th, 2011, at 10:04 am
The garden’s going great guns here. The cherry tomatoes are over four foot tall now, with others just behind. I’d guess there are 50 pounds of tomatoes on the dozen plants. Even the heirloom Black Krim is setting fruit nicely. We’ve already harvested some yellow pears. The lonely tomatillo, Fatima, is doing much better, […]
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