Man what a Mess

[Karm]

We haven’t had actual rain here in Oregon for two months! We’ve had two light sprinkles, but not even enough to water the garden. I’m hoping it will rain soon, it’s fire season. We got evacuated around this time last year! Here’s some photos. Anyway, I miss rain! It fells really weird this year with the heatwave too!

Please take care Jenessa! I live in California it's not been good out West the last few years, has it?

 

[Jenessa_096]

Ooh that's kinda scary.
Hopefully it doesn't happen this year.

You can have some of our rain if you want can ship it across.

 

[Jenessa_096]

Please take care Jenessa! I live in California it's not been good out West the last few years, has it?

Yea, it was really scary and stressful for the chickens. How is it down there?

 

[Karm]

Yea, it was really scary and stressful for the chickens. How is it down there?

Right now just dry, hot, and smoky from the big fires up North. Not bad here, I feel for the folks that are right in the thick of it -- been there more than once

 

[KingD]

Has the landscape recovered from last year yet? Must have had a pretty big effect on the flora and fauna

I have no experience with bushfires really, well I have seen them in Australia but not here in England.

 

[Jenessa_096]

Right now just dry, hot, and smoky from the big fires up North. Not bad here, I feel for the folks that are right in the thick of it -- been there more than once

Same..

 

[Karm]

Has the landscape recovered from last year yet? Must have had a pretty big effect on the flora and fauna

I have no experience with bushfires really, well I have seen them in Australia but not here in England.

Has the landscape recovered from last year yet? Must have had a pretty big effect on the flora and fauna

I have no experience with bushfires really, well I have seen them in Australia but not here in England.

I think it has somewhat but frankly I haven't gone venturing out much in the last year -- between my job and taking care of things at home I stay pretty busy. Also, the tourists are crowding parks and beaches right now, crowds of people are not my thing.

Glad you haven't had to see this where you live now.

 

[KingD]

I think it has somewhat but frankly I haven't gone venturing out much in the last year -- between my job and taking care of things at home I stay pretty busy. Also, the tourists are crowding parks and beaches right now, crowds of people are not my thing.

Glad you haven't had to see this where you live now.

That's good.

Yes I hate crowds as well. Especially beach crowds.
It's wet mostly where I live so there's not much chance of fire

 

[Ascholten]

Dealt with that fire garbage a few years ago, we had a huge one that burnt half the state it seems. You'd go outside and it was just orange out and the ash falling out of the sky all the time and the smoke burning your eyes.

You are welcome to some of my rain if you want. I wonder if the mail man will get mad if I slap one of those flat rate stickers on a tanker or two of it and ship it over to you !!

speaking of landscape, Ive been toying with the idea, but now are going to really get on their ass. They offer free mulch here if you can get them to deliver it here. when they shred trees after storms and clear the sides of the roads and stuff, the choppings they will give you free. I see some real low areas in my yard especially with the floods Ive got. The grass in the back yard is no big deal, nothing you'd have a fit over or spend money on, I think its time to have them dump some truck loads of mulch and just spread that around. Fill in the low areas and just build everything up. The mulch will be a god sent to the crap they gave us for soil here to begin with, and in a year, will compost into some pretty good topsoil. The grass can grow thru it and be stronger for it, the yard will be raised up a few inches and I can fill in the low spots and make like a natural butte for the coop to hang out on thats raised a few inches so everything runs off / away from it. Once the bugs get established, the girls will have plenty of snacks to dig through as well.

Great just what I need, another ongoing, never to be completed project

Aaron

 

[Karm]

Dealt with that fire garbage a few years ago, we had a huge one that burnt half the state it seems. You'd go outside and it was just orange out and the ash falling out of the sky all the time and the smoke burning your eyes.

You are welcome to some of my rain if you want. I wonder if the mail man will get mad if I slap one of those flat rate stickers on a tanker or two of it and ship it over to you !!

speaking of landscape, Ive been toying with the idea, but now are going to really get on their ass. They offer free mulch here if you can get them to deliver it here. when they shred trees after storms and clear the sides of the roads and stuff, the choppings they will give you free. I see some real low areas in my yard especially with the floods Ive got. The grass in the back yard is no big deal, nothing you'd have a fit over or spend money on, I think its time to have them dump some truck loads of mulch and just spread that around. Fill in the low areas and just build everything up. The mulch will be a god sent to the crap they gave us for soil here to begin with, and in a year, will compost into some pretty good topsoil. The grass can grow thru it and be stronger for it, the yard will be raised up a few inches and I can fill in the low spots and make like a natural butte for the coop to hang out on thats raised a few inches so everything runs off / away from it. Once the bugs get established, the girls will have plenty of snacks to dig through as well.

Great just what I need, another ongoing, never to be completed project

Aaron

Yes please send us the rain