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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Well, this is the 5th straight day we've had lightning, thunder AND periods 
of torrential rain (7-14" hour).   I mean, I know lightning and thunder is 
the norm for this time of the year.  What isn't the norm is to have it 
happen every single day, day after day AND to have torrential rains.  I 
mean, we don't get rain after April.  It simply doesn't happen.  We've 
gotten more rain in 5 days then we got all winter!

The peas don't seem to mind.  Believe it or not, the tomatoes don't seem to 
mind.  The peppers, well, the jury is still out.  Beets love it.  The 
strawberries are loving it.  The lettuce looks a tad bedraggled.  Can we say 
mooshed <g>  The melons, pumpkins and cucumbers are doing o.k.

I don't think the orchard is liking it.  I think the rains have been hard 
enough to knock a lot of the young fruit off the trees.  The black cap 
raspberries were already making berries, so knocking the last of the petals 
off won't bother them.  The red raspberries haven't bloomed yet, so they are 
fine.  I need to check on the grapes.

The weatherman was just on and predicting high winds.  What damage the rain 
didn't do to the orchards the wind will finish!

I did get all my irises marked as to color for splitting before the rains 
knocked every single flower off them.

Oh, did I mention this is supposed to continue for another 5-10 days?  This 
is one bizarre year!

Lynda
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