jennycatar's Blog

Send us an Ark
Apr 4, 2008 | 1:51 PM PST
Tags: rain , storms , tornado , vinca

It has been raining forever! Ok, maybe not forever, but it sure seems that way. Half the town of Searcy is flooded out. Yesterday was BAD. We ended up at Rick's parents until nearly 1 am because they have a storm cellar and we don't.Two seperate bad storm systems passed over us so we were down in the cellar at two different times, basically coming out during a lull to use the bathroom and get a snack.

I'm a big baby. For as long as I can remember I've been afraid of lightning, and now it's tornadoes. So I sit in the storm cellar rocking and jumping each time it thunders or I see lightning.

After the second storm we waited a while to make sure nothing else was coming up and came home. But being home was just as bad, every crack of lightning, every whistle of the wind, every odd noise made me jump. Didn't sleep well at all.

On a good and gardening note, my free vinca is doing really well. I need to cut back some of the longer vines because they've dried out but it's greening up really well and even have some buds.

 Hope the rest of my Arkansan friends have weathered this weather


 

Too late the rain
Sep 5, 2007 | 6:19 PM PST
Tags: Rain , peas , lettuce , radishes

We went away for a little vacation this past long weekend. I left everything but the tomatoes were pretty much dead, the heat wave was not kind, even with me schlepping water every day. Came back, the tomatoes were done too. Yesterday started much needed rain, heavy at times, but steady. It's rained off and on today as well. Too late to save my plants though, but the grass and trees need it too, so I guess it's good.

As soon as the rain stops I'll be pulling up the dead stuff so I can plant peas in the pool garden. I've got two kinds: Oregon Sugar Pod, which I know I can use/freeze in shell; and Thomas Laxton, which says on the package is a heavy producer. I'm thinking from what I'm seeing on the package that these are a pea that I'm going to have to shell these before I cook them and/or freeze them. Anyone know if this is true? I'm also going to plant another batch of radishes. I'm not going to bother with the mixed lettuce/salad greens seeds I planted in the spring, as I wasn't really happy with them. Next spring I'll probably just stick with a green leaf lettuce and skip the other mixed stuff.

Rain finally
Aug 18, 2007 | 7:38 PM PST
Tags: rain , heat

About 20 minutes or so after I hung sheets and towels out on the clothes line it started rumbling. Of course lol, because normally we're at my in-laws all day on Saturdays and Sundays, so normally I wouldn't be hanging laundry out on a weekend. So in came the still wet stuff to go in the dryer. And just in time too. About 10 minutes or so after I got them in it started raining. Lightly at first, but it turned into a hard downpour, lots of thunder and lightning, which used to scare the bejeezus out me. Thankfully as long as I don't see the lightning, it doesn't scare me. 

It rained for a good couple hours, tapering off at the last half hour or so to a nice gentle rain. Enough to leave a nice reserve in the pool, so I didn't have to water the tomatoes this evening! Hooray!

Unfortunately it did NOTHING to cool things off. If anything it added to the humidity levels after the rain was done making it feel hotter. Thankfully though it's finally dropped from the 106 temps we averaged last week to the high 90s. Hopefully the first couple weeks of September it'll drop to the mid 80s and I'll actually be able to deal with being outside for more than 5 minutes at a time.