Rain is halting my plans for the day

[Clipper]

I had planned on using the small tiller to cultivate the garden today but it rained enough to make it muddy and untillable.

I had planned on moving the travel trailer down the road to a neighbor's house. He has three paved driveways and told me I could park it in one of them, in front of HIS travel trailer for as long as I need to. It is imperative that I get the trailer out of the driveway so that they can cut the driveway and replace the septic drain line from the house to the tank. I was out early this morning and wire brushed the receiver on the truck, sprayed it well with WD40, wiped the rust out with a cloth, put on a disposable exam glove and greased the inside of the receiver as well as the hitch on the tongue of the trailer. Hooking up and unhooking the trailer in our driveway is always very difficult because the driveway is sloped and steep. It is hard to get the hitch to drop onto the ball and when I unhook it is often difficult to get the hitch to come OFF the ball. That is the reason for keeping the receiver on the truck well lubricated. I often have to pull the pin on the receiver that holds the hitch in, and slowly drive ahead so that the hitch comes out of the receiver and drops on the ground. If and when we trade this trailer we will definitely go back to a fifth wheel. I never had problems hooking and unhooking with a fifth wheel and accompanying hitch in the bed of the truck.

[clarencebunsen]

Rain here this morning. It is needed, June has been very dry.

[Clipper]

I have been reading about how dry it is there. People have actually started fires in the Rome area in the median on the highway a couple of times. Someone set the wood mulch on fire at a McDonald's drive thru, and someone tossed a cigarette butt out at a gas station in Rome and set some bushes on fire. I read that there was a forest fire on Panther Mountain near Old Forge the other day. It must be tinder box dry there. I hope you get a good long and gentle soaking rain to green things back up. It hasn't been bad here the last couple of weeks or so. We have had a few gully washer downpours, and on other days we have had spit and sputter little showers in the afternoon that barely wet the grounIt is still raining here so I am not getting anything done other than to bitch and complain, haha.

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I am curious to see how long it will take the grass to green up again. All the lawns in my area and brown straw, So far no color change since rain started very early this morning.

[Clipper]

The chlorophyll helps the plants synthesize food from CO2 and water and produce oxygen as a result. I am not sure but I think that solar energy is a necessary component in activating the process and kicking it into gear. Am I correct PB? Maybe the grass won't begin to green back up until the rain stops and the sun comes back out.

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Yup you are correct concerning photosynthesis and the process is driven by the sunlight. Excessive heat and dry conditions can also cause the grass to become dormant, but that can lead to the grass dying if the proper steps aren't taken. ... Watering will help dormant grass become green again, while dead grass will remain brown. Many times the roots haven't gone deep enough to take in water and nutrients and what with a sever lack of rain bingo brown dry and maybe even dead grass. I think many large patches of lawn around here now are dead. Poor Chancellor Park is very dry and has a lot of brown grass. Who know maybe enough rain will help revive it.

[BHU]

I'm guessing we got about 1/2" of rain today. It will help with the lawns a bit but I don't think a whole lot. We need an all day soaker & that's not in the forecast. I've probably lost a good bit of my lawn out back. Wednesday I got out the sprinkler out & let it run to at least get some water down to the roots. I hate to do that with these usury water rates thanks to the MVWA but it's a tossup of either paying them or buying seed, topsoil & fertilizer & replanting this fall. Plus my time & labor. The forecast is calling for 90 degrees this Friday & dry.

[Clipper]

Jun 27, 2020 19:57:55 GMT -5 BHU said:

I'm guessing we got about 1/2" of rain today. It will help with the lawns a bit but I don't think a whole lot. We need an all day soaker & that's not in the forecast. I've probably lost a good bit of my lawn out back. Wednesday I got out the sprinkler out & let it run to at least get some water down to the roots. I hate to do that with these usury water rates thanks to the MVWA but it's a tossup of either paying them or buying seed, topsoil & fertilizer & replanting this fall. Plus my time & labor. The forecast is calling for 90 degrees this Friday & dry.

I have a couple of fairly large patches in the back yard that were killed by last summer's drought. I reseeded them this spring but it doesn't seem to be taking or growing very well. I may end up taking the tiller to the areas and loosening the damned clay so I can amend the soil a bit so grass can actually take root.

[BHU]

I planted seed out front 2 weeks ago where the pine trees were & the seed that has germinated wouldn't fill a thimble. I don't know if it's the heat or the crappy top soil from WM. I even added some cow manure that I bought from Lowe's & tilled that in with the topsoil. I've also been watering the seed twice a day. It looks like I may have to start from scratch this fall when the weather is cooler.

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I noticed up at the new CABVI building they put down sod. It now looks like fields of sand.


That rain did noting for the lawn here not it is just wet straw.

[Clipper]

We were supposed to get some pretty severe thunder storms with wind and downpours. I woke up at 3:30 and could not go back to sleep worrying about getting the trailer hooked up and moved. I finally got up at 5:30 and made my coffee. Kathy got up at 6:30 and we hooked up the trailer. We waited until 8am to move it because the neighbor that is letting me park it at his house told me he would be up by 8 to get ready for church.

I came home and ate breakfast and then got out the pressure washer and started washing the driveway where the trailer has sat for the last 3 yrs. I want to seal that side of the driveway while the trailer is out of the way. I can do the other side where I park the truck a little later on this summer.

I get half of the one side of the driveway washed and the sky opened up and it poured. I no more than pulled the hoses and pressure washer back under the carport and came in the house and it stopped. I am resting for a while and then going back out to wash at least the upper end of the other side of the driveway so I won't have to deal with it after they cut a trench across the middle of the driveway to replace the sewer pipe tomorrow. I can easily wash the lower half after they are through making THEIR mess.

I will be glad when this crisis is over. We both took care of business this morning in the trailer bathroom and I brought the commode chair that we had for my dad in from the storage building to use for peeing. As long as Kathy doesn't put the paper in it I can sneak across the road tonight in the dark and dump it in the field. If any other bathroom emergencies happen I guess we will be going to Food City or McDonalds to use their restroom. lol

I joke about it, but this is a major inconvenience caused by the careless knucklehead driving the bucket truck and bobcat.

[BHU]

Clipper, that sounds like a real p.i.t.a. with them also having to tear up your driveway. What do you plan on sealing your driveway with? Ours needs it big time & the wife has been on me to do it, but I've been putting it off because thats a job I've never done before. Our is asphalt & the big box stores all have product but I've been reading mixed reviews by people who may or not have followed instructions.

[Clipper]

We haven't decided yet whether I should do it or if we will call a reputable company and have them spray it on. With everything else I have to keep up with around here while going to cardiac rehab 4 afternoons a week until August 8th I don't really think I want to be buying 5 gallon pails, mixing and stirring and putting it down. I am also wondering where I can buy blacktop to pave over where they cut a trench across the driveway. They just put gravel in it when they backfill the trench. I have to investigate the possibilities and see if there is a cold patch product that comes in bags from Home Depot or Lowes. We were saying the other day that we will probably have the driveway repaved next spring because it has some cracks in it. I want to get a quote on patching the cracks and putting down a skim coat with 2 or 3 inches of hot mix. I would have it done this year but we have had some unanticipated expenses with the tree removal and now the new sewer pipe. Even with the tree guy paying for the part that his people damaged it will probably still cost us $1000 or so.

[Clipper]

Update: Kathy says we will have the driveway sealed by professionals. Gee. I was so looking forward to doing it from 5 gallon pails in the summer heat. NOT!!! LOL

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You should wait till the fall like I see people up here doing.