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Raymond Richard

Raymond Richard

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I finally bit the bullet yesterday and mowed my grass. Most my neighbors did there's a week or two ago but since I don't like yard work period I put it off. For the most part the wet weather the Pacific Northwest is known for has gone south. I sure hope it gets back to normal soon but I still think we are going to pay for the lack of rain this summer or sooner. The last 3 weeks or more have been clear as a bell with a east wind and temps in the day of 50 to 60 and droping down to just below freezing at night.
 
Yep, I made up a billet of Damascus last Wednesday it was 50 degrees. Allot of the snow banks a gone. We keep getting dusting, only have around 2" in the backyard. ;) :D
 
Your alot better off than I thought with the snow. Fog has been about the only percipatation in most the Portland area but where I'm at the wind has kept that away. I sure wouldn't mind seeing some rain......
 
Ray, I wish we could send some of your rain back north. We are having the wettest February on record. If it was snow, we would be buried like the San Juan Mts north of here.

They have closed school for the week south of here on the Navajo Res at Pueblo Pintado because of mud. Much of the San Juan basin is shut down by the BLM to any off highway travel.
 
Steve, Everyone down in the southwestern part of the US is just been getting hammered. Up here in the northwest we are so dependent on the wet stuff. The first year I moved up here in 76 I kept hearing about the drought and I didn't understand it since it seemed to be raining everyday. Now its just not happening. I was down in San Diego just after Christmas and for the biggest part of the time it just poured. It ought to be a beautiful spring in New Mexico this year if it ever stops raining....
 
One of those big black clouds from California just came over and dumped another 1/2 to 3/4" of water on us. With a open air shop all I can do is watch. Gib
 
Gib, Send that cloud to Oregon. I don't think we have had 3/4" of rain all year. All the Doug Fir are turning into cactie. I've been getting ready to do some clay treated knife blades and I sat in the sun. My bald head is red. Not in Feburary, no way.......
 
IG I live in Quartzsite, 120 mile west of Phoenix on I10 right next to the freeway. You ever get out this way come and pay me a visit. Gib
 
Raymond Richard said:
IG, I highly recommend you bring a raft or a boat if you go see Gib....... :D
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But it is going to be pretty when the rain stops and the flowers all shot up. :D
 
Gib Guignard said:
IG I live in Quartzsite, 120 mile west of Phoenix on I10 right next to the freeway. You ever get out this way come and pay me a visit. Gib
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Sounds good to me. One of this days I'll make it out there. :D
 
Ray, I know you posted this thread about mowing your grass in February just to piss off us New England types! :eek: :grumpy: :D :D :D
 
Jeff, I'd much rather wait till May or June to mow but if it pissed you off thats fine..... :D

Gib, Maybe you ought to get some Christmas trees planted with all the rain you been getting. I'm starting to wonder if Oregon is going to be the next desert. It was 62 in my shop without the forge going. I was down to my thong........
 
Steve and Gib, my dad lives in Las Cruces, he's been whining about the rain for a month! :rolleyes: You'd think living in the desert you'd love rain, but he's bitching about having to wash the cars - said he finally just gave up. :D All I can think about is how everything blooms after a rain, even if it's just for an afternoon - beautiful.

I'll be moving out to NM in about 9 years, poor or not. I can't wait! Rain or no rain, snow or not. I love the desert, that's where I feel most at home.
 
It's either snowing or raining in most of the state this AM, but somehow missing us for the moment.

They announced on Albuquerque TV this morning that Jan-Feb this year have broken the all time record for the first two months of any year since records have been kept. The old one stood since 1863.

It wouldn't seem like a lot of moisture to those back east or in the NW, but the desert has turned into a sea of mud around here. The San Juan Mts in SW Colorado(where our rivers head up) have 150% to 175% of average snowpack and it is more dense, wetter snow than normal. No drought this year.
 
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