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Can you feel it?

Can you feel the Fall air that’s swept into Austin this week?

This morning the thermometer at our house read 61 degrees. What a nice relief. We’ve been waiting a lonnnnnnng time for some cooler weather since our first 100-degree days arrived in early May!

Today at noon, it was 77 degrees and I was fully engaged in planting, pruning and pulling weeds. Finally. I have not been motivated for quite some time. Those weeds were screaming at me and I was ignoring them — day after day! But today, they got my attention and I finally silenced them — at least some of them. I planted the Cuphea that I posted yesterday (and before they died, even, so I get a gold star!), pruned my overzealous lantana in several beds and pulled nut sedge. I’m going to “treat” them, but I’m out of “treatment” right now, so I had to pull these and vow to get rid of the next set right as they come up. So, one bed down, five to go!

Wish the brisk temps were here to stay, but it’s not to be. We’re going up a degree a day and will be back up to 90 this weekend. But hey, that’s still not 100!

The Farmers’ Almanac

Remember the Farmers’ Almanac? Of course, you might read it relilgiously even today, but for most people, it’s a forgotten vestige of the past. I used to read it at my grandparents’ farm in Kentucky as a child. They were farmers — mostly tobacco and corn — with a few pigs and chickens thrown in for luck (or dinner!) as it were. I didn’t much like the chickens, but I loved feeding the pigs. I have great memories of the farm, now long gone.

Well, here’s what the current Farmers’ Almanac has to say about our bizarre weather these days: Notice the repetition of the words scattered thunderstorms and “squally.” That pretty much covers it for us here in Central Texas lately!

July 2007
1st-3rd. Squally weather from Southern Rockies, with severe thunderstorms, capable of producing large hail, tornadoes, especially Texas, Oklahoma area. 4th-7th. Mostly fair, dry for Independence Day holiday. 8th-11th. Fair initially, then showery, breezy weather. 12th-15th. Fair, turning hot, with many 90s and even some 100s, then scattered thunderstorms. 16th-19th. Squally Texas, Oklahoma. 20th-23rd. Fair and hot weather, then unsettled conditions by 23rd. 24th-27th. Scattered shower activity spreads south and east to Texas, Louisiana coasts, then fair skies. 28th-31st. More scattered shower and thunderstorm activity, particularly for New Mexico and parts of western Texas.

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Can you feel it?

The Farmers’ Almanac

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