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Have you seed tonights low and high temps tomorrow for the Carolinas?

I guess I gotta go dig out my electric blanket. I hope it doesn't cause my itty bitty tomatoes to drop.

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48 degrees this morning! Picture this, I am walking around looking at my plantings with a corduroy jacket on (and still feel chilly) with a cup of hot coffee in my hand, and SLOSHING through standing water in some parts of my yard! It rained hard all night. We can use the water, but gee!! all at once! At least we didn't have frost warning like I understand some parts of the country did---yet!

Blackberry/Whippoorwill winter is a bit late arriving this year, but it almost always arrives.

Gessieviolet sounds like my morning .. especially the sloshing! Farmerdill, I had never heard of the Blackberry/Whippoorwill winter before .. had to look it up!

http://kyclim.wku.edu/factSheets/folklore.htm

Yesterday I got 3/4 inch of rain in less than an hour .. we had a really intense micro burst where I live. One minutes the rain was coming down, then sideways. A lot of my plants got beaten down by the rain .. especially the large leaf ones like datura.

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Have to say today was a bit of a shock. I figured summer weather had set in. I'm liking the rain and as far as I'm concerned every other day for a while is fine. I haven't had a good growing year for the last 3 or 4 years.

Look what I found while looking up the weather. http://www.wtoctv.com/global/story.asp?s=10376674

Any Miley fans out there????

It is 55 and nasty here today. We are supposed to have 35 mph winds but I haven't seen anything like that yet. There was a picture in the paper this morning showing tourists swimming because the water temp, at 78, is much warmer than the air.

I've got my electric blanket cranked up to thermo nuclear explosion at night and the kitties are real friendly. Right now my hands are cold and stiff and I'm back to wearing winter gear, long sleeve thermal top, sweat shirt and sweat pants. I'll be darned if I'm gonna turn on the heater. It's 67 in the house. We have the winds here.

I really dislike this intensely!

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8:30 AM and my computer says we are at 49 degrees. Yet I am looking out my window toward my containers and am greeted by 3 bright yellow blossoms on my 3 week old squash!! Guess I'll grab that corduroy jacket, my hot cup of coffee and go take a closeup look !! Hear some of you NC folk actually had frost warnings last night. At this rate we're next.

.....and how about that low forming off Cuba? A hurricane in May doesn't sound good.

So much for Global Warming, huh?

I got med tomatoes and some nice size summer squash on my plants, hope the cold is finished for good now.

DON'T COMPLAIN!!!!!! YOU MIGHT JINX US...... remember the humidity? The sweat dripping from your brow? The ravenous hordes of blood-sucking mosquitos? Weeding at 6 AM to avoid the heat wave?? And, most importantly, the dusty, baking drought? Just ENJOY......the heat will come, and so will the 'maters!

Ya Alice there seems to be a hurricane forming. Don't think it can get strong enough this time of year to do much except drop a bunch of rain on us. I need some heat now. My back yard isn't irrigated and looks very poor so far this year. Need the grass to get going and choke out all the weeds.

Heat and some of that wind we were supposed to get would be great for drying things out. I am still really cold and soggy here and the forecast is for more rain later in the week.

I'm ready for the heat again myself. I hate cold weather. It's so much easier to get cooler than it is to get warmer. We're suppose to get rain every day for the next week. It wouldn't be so bad if we had good percolation where I live but we don't so the ground, especially around my house is like a bog.

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I don't like personally being hot but I have CSA orders to get out soon and need some produce! We don't get mosquitos here I am in the foothills of the mountains near VA, for some reason I have never seen many. I also have alot of bats.

Oh the mosquitoes, frogs and bats are gearing up for a banner year in the low country. They spray for mosquitoes down here but they can't spray the salt marshes so the salt water mosquitoes will be going nuts soon. Of course all the rain will lead to are friends the frogs multiplying out of control. Right now I have one that likes to hang out in kitchen exhaust vent. I get to hear him chirping every night now. Wife just stares at the hood saying "he can't get in here can he?"

I love frogs, I was playing with one out in the garden the other day. He got out of the way just in time while I was tilling. :)

My sons found a huge toad in my garden yesterday. I am sure it is the same one that I found last year, one of the biggest ones I have seen. Her name is Gertrude.
I hope that she has lots of babies, because I want toads! And frogs too.

This leopard frog came and lived in my potted plants last summer. He is so cute!

OK, now would someone tell me the difference between toads and frogs?

Here is a site, just for you!

http://allaboutfrogs.org/weird/general/frogtoad.html

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Found this. Just run your pointer over the name and the picture will pop up on the right side. http://www.uga.edu/srelherp/anurans/index.htm

I've been seeing a fairly big frog that is dark green with a white underside. Anyone know what that is????

I have a Squirrel Treefrog (Hyla squirella) that lives in my greenhouse. His favorite perch is the pregnant onion.

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I don't know how we went from temperature to frogs, but since we did I just have to show what I discovered this morning. I have a fish pool where I have a little bog spot established. I saw what looked like a black shiny slime one a portion of the rock island this morning. When I looked closer, low and behold, I realized there were masses of tiny frogs !!! The tadpoles are doing whatever tadpoles do to become land creatures. This is not a very good picture, but look closely and you will be able to make out the frog shapes on the rocks.. That shiny black in the middle is the mass of little "Kermits"

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Well at least this morning I was able to sit out back and enjoy my garden without be swathed in layers of clothing. Thank goodness it's warming back up.

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