Today's Weather in Your Garden - 23

Wow - may be some artifacts in the ground. The birth rate sounds like my grandmother, only for her it was closer to every year for about 20 years!

Oh, and please note the fact that any critter in the area could come right under the walls and into our house. As of today our guest room is also opened up and serving as a receiving room for all critters that want to get out of the rain.

OMG, Victor. I thought our Lydia was a real trooper!!! And yes, we are on the lookout for historic pieces. We found some great ones when we built the living room/dining porch addition on the back of the house. The really odd thing that they found under the room I just posted was a huge bone of some large animal. We think a critter of some kind drug it under there to feast upon. I'll post a pic of it tomorrow.

I heard of your door always being open, but your walls?!!

Well, no rain here yet, some gusty winds now and there, that's all! Clem

Victor - LOL...the open wall policy! One more peek and that's it for tonight! This view is the other side of the birthing room wall from outside.

Wow Louise.
Power was out here, just came back on.

If I had to give birth that often, that's what it would look like after about number seven!

You guys are getting it rough! C

i am still amazed by the amount of work you guys are doing.... keep us posted

Guess this would qualify as an ominous sky? Not much rain though - less than 1/4 inch.

WOW those sills are huge.
Guess a family room play room in the basement is out of the question.
It amazes me how all that weight could be supported on the sills that are leveled with bolders in some places, friend of mine has a very small ols house in Piermont NY . she had work done on her dinningroom because the walls were cracking, they found no foundation just the sill setting on a rock at the far corner.
Piermont is on the banks of the Hudson River andher whole house was shifting down hill.
These oldies are beautiful but what a lot of upkeep.
Your project will be fabooo when its done.

Just getting caught up on this thread Louise - what a big project!!! Good luck with everything. We didn't get any storms yesterday - they were either north or south of our area. Could have used some rain but not the wind and hail they were predicting.
Update on the drowning - the boy was only 14 and he and his friend (also 14) were trying to swim across the river to a rope swing on the other side. He got tired and told his friend he couldn't make it so they started back. When his friend turned and looked back he was gone and he couldn't get to him. The friend then ran back to the beach area and the life guards came to try to rescue him. They were not from Glens Falls but from Balston Spa which is down near Saratoga. He was at the beach/picnic area with his friend and his friend's mother for a picnic when they wandered down the canal tow path trail and decided to swim in another place - bad choice. I can not see the river from my house this time of year because of the trees and brush on the other side of the canal (canal is between my house and the river) but watched the recovery and hoping he wasn't dead. When I heard someone scream we've got him and then saw the friend sitting on the bank of the canal with his head in his hands and sobbing I knew he was dead. I can't imagine how his friend must feel. this is a pic taken from the beach and looking down to the area where they tried to swim across. Eleanor

Ok, that pic is from above the dam. Sorry, but it is hard to tell what the small thumbnails are sometimes!!! I thought I took one from the beach area but it must have been a mental pic!!!! This is a pic of the river near where the drowning occured taken last fall. Eleanor

Cool this morning - 62 and mostly sunny.

It's cool here, too, Victor. The dense fog and drizzle has given away to sunny skies and high humidity. We're still on the agenda for more T-storms later this afternoon.

Right now ...

Partly Cloudy and 64°
Wind: VRB at 7
Humidity: 80% - ugh, ugh, and double ugh!!!
Dewpoint: 58°
Pressure: 29.69 in. and steady - so far

Eleanor, so peaceful looking place to hold such tragedy. Teaching a child to swim is great, but teaching the drown-proofing method is essential and might have saved that child if, when too tired to swim, he would have just relaxed and floated in the vertical position until his friend got help. The big tragedy here is people getting caught in the riptides and not know enough or just they just panic and then try to swim back to the beach against it, rather than swimming parallel to the shoreline until you get out of it.

Here is the sky from yesterday. Nice day today. Patti

The article about the drowning made the Poughkeepsie Journal today. We have a tributary to the Hudson called the Fishkill Creek (part of which borders the back edge of my property), and the area close to where it empties into the river in Beacon, is known for the kids swimming and running into difficulty. There have been drownings there despite the warnings. Most of the time it's people who are unfamiliar with the area and just think it's a "creek".

Nice day here after the severe storms. Still waiting to hear whether or not there was a tornado in Pleasant Valley.

Currently 71 degrees and just a few high clouds - mostly sunny.

- Lynn

cool cloudy might rain,no humid high temps anymore.
I need to plant the Ginger my girlfriend gave me, fit it in with the hosta.

Temp 78.0, Wind NW 0.8 mph, Rh 47%. ☺

Nice and cool - 63 here! Nice mom bird, WC.

- Thanks, Blue Jay mom released the airspace so the Robin saw an opportunity, only bad thing... - it's 8' from my car and she's a messy housekeeper!

I found a bird's nest under the grills of my closed and covered barbecue over the weekend!

Wow! must be a Nuthatch or Chickadee - something small enough to get into vent holes! ☺

Yes - it was quite a surprise.

mmmm mmmmmmmmmm good ! BBQ'd Nuthatch... Summer has arrived !

LOL

RAIN today
Rain today
rain today





and tomorrow

Beautiful morning. 60 degrees now and will be nice all day into the low 70's. No rain for a few days.

I will be getting to dig a big hole today for a new shad or service berry, Amelanchier canadensis that I picked out yesterday to anchor the end of the entrance to our dell and endless stream. It is a multi-stemmed ten footer. I also picked up some interesting perennials and more plants to finish up all my container planting (deck garden). I had the nursery also hold a 3 foot Vitex rotundifolia, but after reading further, I think I am not going to get it as it sounds invasive. Have a good one all, out to start my big hole. Patti

Nice shot of the mommy, WC!

Beautiful morning here. Just had a conference on the state of the destruction.....ugh! Unexpectedly, they had to remove most of the front of the house in addition to two other sides of the house. This is very not good. Actually, this is truly the stuff nightmares are made of. Here's a shot of the front of the house as they were starting to take things apart. Holy Cow! That green on the right is the casing around our front door.

Oh Louise..im so very sorry!!
When we went to add a very large addition to our house we ran into some what the same problem. We went in thinking we would replace one sill and ended up replacing 3 and a few other things! It can be such stressful time!

You are so right, Celeste. Even Molly, our dog, is reacting to the stress. She is quite sick this morning and I am trying to get her necessary meds in her. But on a positive note - It is just beautiful outside and I'm going to take Molly with me up to Cuppatea for some R & R, and maybe some zinnia & dahlia planting. My reblooming iris are so pretty right now. I refuse to be brought down by rot! After all, we could be losing everything in the midwest. Those poor people. I feel so terrible for them. I am grateful for so many things and will choose to just focus on the glass being more than half full.

Check out this huge bone that we found under the floor......oh my!

Progress! They now have the new corner post and the new upper beam in on the front of the house. These guys are good!

LOL at that bone !!!

Feeling better now, that the new beam and post are in?
Light at the end of the tunnel !

There is NOTHING like a professional.WOW

Wow, that was a lot of rot. Good to see progress though, Louise. That bone is awesome. It's so thick. I suggest you have it checked out to see what it was. Pretty cool! Obviously a heavy animal. A bit large for Molly...

Forgot to say - 65 and suddenly very dark. Showers are in the forecast.

Low grey clouds
GLOOMY
No rain thanks

Thundering. Threatening rain. None yet.