South Carolina

[tiffanyg2]

I live about 5-10 mins south in Simpsonville which is very pretty to. The weather is great~ You definately get all 4 seasons and my favorite is in the spring and fall. If you end up here I'm sure you'll love it to

 

[tiffanyg2]

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I had no idea it was going to be so cold out last night! I would have been upset if I lost any of my garden crop or my peaches! ~ This weather can be strange sometimes~ so I saw you have Buff's! I'm so in love with my babies... I started off with 3 pullets 7 weeks ago~ and then it looked like I have 2 Roo's and a Hen so I added 3 more pullets about 3 weeks along that I am praying they are girls. I'll be horrified if I have to find homes for my supposed roo's.

Now my project this week is to build a coop out back! I just thought I'd say Hi because it looks like were neighbors

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I was born and raised in Greenville. Most of the time the weather is nice, even in winter. I can tolerate the cold, such as it is and I deal with the heat (because I have AC) but when the wind blows I hate it!

The winter here can be cold but only about a week at a time. We get a few warm days before it goes back to being cold again. If we have a snow it usually melts in a few days and the whole city closes down until it does melt. And you can almost bet it will be about 50 degrees a week after a snow and maybe even 60, regardless if it is Jan.

The summers, you will hate. The humidity is about 120% and you constantly feel like you are having to push your way through the air. Even at daylight every morning you can not escape sweating buckets as you try to race the heat. Mid day is near intolerable. Rainstorms only make it worse. However, we have the best lakes and beaches! So we visit often!

It is so green here! That is one thing I always miss when going out west. There are tons of flowers in most people's yards and green, green grass, shrubs and trees. And fall....well, Vermont has nothing on beauty compared to SC! Your backyard becomes a colorful canvas, full of activity of squirrels and birds. The blazing colors are too much for words. And looking out over the mountains makes you want to take up brush and paint! But even summer makes you want to capture the beauty of plants that grow here and the creatures that play among them.

You are a short distance from cool mountains or the awesome shoreline! There are so many fantastic day trips that you may never get to visit everything.
Right now you can get some incredible buys on homes in the Greenville area. Depending on where the plant may be located, some of the neighborhoods can be your own paradise. You can buy acreage or subdivision at prices that are phenomenal!

Having said that I will shut up now. I really wanted to keep SC "country" but as folks learn how great this area is they keep moving here. My little piece of country keeps getting smaller.

 

[gofasterstripe]

Im not far from Lake Greenwood.
As Nadine said summers are horrible down here, I moved here 8 years ago from Scotland, im used to snow in June. Summers here kill me, the humidity is unbearable for me. I get out to feed the animals in the morning too trying to beat the heat & humidity but it gets me every time. I walk round with a constant glisten (sweat) on my skin, I cant straight iron my hair, coz its only gonna frizz up again as soon as I open the door LOL. Summer for me is a constant battle. The heat is fine...the humidity is my killer and has made me sicker than a dog every year. I LOVE Winter and Spring.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Today was near perfect!
My friend brought me 2 big shipping crates and a small one. I was having a hard time with the last door on the peachy duck coop and she helped with that. Then we watered some animals and talked like there was no tomorrow! It was nice being outside!

Oh yeah, my 15 Golden Cascade ducklings from Sand Hill came in (sent 17 but 2 died) and the 30 chicks from Purely Poultry.

I took the Saxony ducklings outside and put them in a big tub with a water bowl for them to play in so I could clean their brooder tub out. They had a blast playing in the water but soon got a bit chilled so I had to rush them back in under the heat lamp where they quickly cleaned themselves off and took a nap.

Life is good.

 

[rebbetzin]

Thank you, Nadine, gofasterstripe, tiffanyg2, for the nice replies.... I have been to Florida in the summer... I suppose it is much the same. You get out of the shower and stay WET, unless you have a fan to get you dried off!

It is suppose to be better for our skin! Here in Tucson we have 7% humidity most of the year! We do have our Monsoons, where it gets humid and very HOT!! But the rain usually cools it off a bit.

I would love to live where it is GREEN!!

 

[Jetiki]

No its not nearly as bad here in the summer as Florida. Here it will cool off at night and the humidity doesn't stay forever like it does in Fl. Used to live in Fl, grew up in Florida and you can't pay me enough to go back down there. We do have that orange slick clay soil and it becomes nasty icky mud but still not as bad as the Florida sand.


Karen

 

[Southern Bee Lady]

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I had no idea it was going to be so cold out last night! I would have been upset if I lost any of my garden crop or my peaches! ~ This weather can be strange sometimes~ so I saw you have Buff's! I'm so in love with my babies... I started off with 3 pullets 7 weeks ago~ and then it looked like I have 2 Roo's and a Hen so I added 3 more pullets about 3 weeks along that I am praying they are girls. I'll be horrified if I have to find homes for my supposed roo's.

Now my project this week is to build a coop out back! I just thought I'd say Hi because it looks like were neighbors

Glad we are neighbors. I have 6 buff hens and a roo. I don't hatch any of their eggs. They are not the quality I would like for them to be. They are the first chickens I got and they have a forever home. A couple have unique personalities. They are very entertaining.
I really like my B/B/S stock. I purchased eggs from 3 breeders last year. Some of those developed nicely.

 

[Moonchild]

Hope EveryBody is lovin/hatin this Blackberry Winter and I hope everyone's chicken are well. Mine are Great and the chicks are GROWING way to fast!
The little/big BlueJG Roo is getting big and tring his best to get the respect of the ladies(well not yet)...I feel sad for him, but SOON he will be Huge and Respect will come(or not lol)

Hope Everybody Has a great weekend ...and To ALL THE MOTHERS!!!! HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!!

Take Care!!!

 

[Gold Griffin Chicken Mom]

My first big trip out West was in May of 1993. I kept wondering where all the water was. We'd pass over a tiny bridge: no water. We'd pass over a big bridge: no water. I started to wonder if they just built the occasional bridge to keep the road level.

I understand when it rains, OMGosh, it RAINS and they need all those little bridges to keep the roads from washing out, but it was hard to wrap my brain around the concept when we passed over hundreds of the dratted things!

Having grown up in the Charleston area I will say there is one major difference from Florida: we have the occasional hill. Florida is FLAT. Otherwise the coastal weather is very similar. Remember most of Florida is "close" to the coast. All the way to up here in Southeast Virginia the weather patterns stay the same. In checking back and forth with my parents in North Charleston, our Virginia weather is consistently a few degrees cooler year round.

Once you head inland, things start cooling off. Summers can get quite hot in the foothills, but once the Sun drops below the herizon it cools off. My aunt and uncle in Williamston only ran their air conditioner in the afternoons. After sundown they opened all the windows and turned on fans. Usually windows had to be closed prior to daybreak or we were too chilled to sleep.

Even not living there and only visiting around Christmas-time, I'd feel safe saying most of the upstate gets some snow every year.

One thing that is in that area that I doubt you have much in the West is: waterfalls. Some spots the mountain streams bring down garnets (three guesses what my birthstone is!) and you can stop on the side of the road and collect rocks. Over the line in NC there are tons of places to mine your own stones. Lots of quartz and poor quality emeralds are there, too.