... and some giant pools of standing water...
June 17, 2018
Walking at sunrise (because I don't want to walk when it's hot).
I had a nice 2-mile walk after putting up that first post of the day. It's going to get up in the 90s and I don't even like it when it's in the 80s. The solution is to be up and out early. Today, I got a low-70s walk, which was just fine. Only slightly hot for my taste, but good enough. We had a massive rainstorm the night before last, and there were some big branches down in our neighborhood.
... and some giant pools of standing water...
... and some giant pools of standing water...
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In hot weather I try to get out of the house for exercise before civil twilight begins, so I can be back inside before the sun gets above the trees. Unfortunately, where I live, the mosquitoes and other buggies are also early risers.
Swiftly flow the days.
The Monsoon season is beginning. A big rain squall about 4 as Juliet and I began our walk. We had to hurry home.
The temperature in Tucson went from 106 to 81 in one day with the rain.
I had been staying in East Tennessee over the previous autumn, winter, and spring but am now back home in Tampa. I'd forgotten how much I missed the feeling of being hit by a blast furnace when walking out the front door in the morning.
I don't mind hot but I'm under a fan's influence or riding a bike.
One of my tall smooth sumac trees commits suicide when the weight of rain on the very tall leaves overbalences the root die-off that limits their life. That leaves a trunk with essentially no attached root so cleans up very cleanly. No stump. Clip off all the thumb-thickness branches, handsaw the rest into carry sized lengths and put it by the back fence as termite and woodpecker food.
Each sumac leaves many children from shoot sendout and they grow fast. The plant is considered a weed some places. Sort of a bamboo.
If you can't stand the heat, get out of Texas. You would be miserable retiring down here Althouse.
We're looking at Colorado around Salida with a place on the Arkansas.
Blast furnace is an apt description J. Farmer.
My wife and I went for a stroll last night just before sunset. It was still in the mid 80s and very humid. Even a stroll was enough to bring up a sweat. I wore this morning and went for a longer (4 1/2 miles) and faster walk. It was still in the 70s and more pleasant, though still humid.
I don't like the heat either, even on a bike anymore. Come to think of it, I didn't like it much when I was young. It sucks the strength right outta ya.
Cracks me up to see young families out on the bike trail in the max heat of the day, poor fat dad sweating and the kids going around in circles. Then you never see them again that year.
Took Ziggy, the GSD, for walk/ride with my bicycle on our tree-lined dirt road. He loves it, as do I. He finally gets it. He stays 5 feet to the left and no longer cuts me off. Highly trainable breed.
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Walking at sunrise
Nope. Too much crepuscular animal activity outside of town.
I have taken a stroll through your beautiful neighborhood via Google Street View. If I am not mistaken it is the work of the noted early 20th century city planner John Nolen.
The house visible on the middle edge of the left side of the photograph is for sale. It's $750,000.
Ann Althouse said...
"The house visible on the middle edge of the left side of the photograph is for sale. It's $750,000."
How are the trout streams around Madison?
85 is cool and comfortable! Perfect running or cycling temperature.
I have been in Oro Valley AZ since Friday.
People are blaming us for bringing Midwest weather with us (i.e., rain and cold).
People are blaming us for bringing Midwest weather with us (i.e., rain and cold).
Tucson natives long for the start of monsoon season. I'm hoping this one has begun although I would prefer my roof leak be fixed before it really gets going.
We got 3-3/4” in a couple of hours.
I’ve been working on the drainage in the back yard garden and am in mid-project. The rain ripped up quite a bit of my work. I’ve got a nice miniature alluvial fan in one of my water-collection depressions now. As a geology nut I kind of like it, but it will have to be dug up and moved back to where it belongs.
My wife said Whole Foods was flooded and was closed yesterday. I don’t know for how long.
I put in a couple of hours of outside cleanup work yesterday. It was awful. Hot and dripping-humid.
The heat vand humidity is why I mowed the lawn yesterday before eigjt and walked the dog today before seven.
Here’s the radar of the storm. I was watching it Friday night as it approached because I knew the gutters needed cleaning out and I was hoping it would miss us. For awhile it looked like we would only be clipped by the tail of the storm line but then the tail blossomed right over us. The back gutter overflowed but the more critical front gutter, which can result in basement flooding, didn’t.
"How are the trout streams around Madison?"
Check this out: "Southern Wisconsin Trout Unlimited."
It's Trout Fishing in America Althouse.
Wow! It looks like Wisconson has some pretty sweet fly fishing. And I now have a new fly to tie. Rusty dun fountain of youth.
Off to the tying bench. One way to beat the heat.
Madison seemed to have gotten hit harder than areas farther east. My daughter had some tree damage in her yard. Today is going to be an indoor day with the high temps and dew points, my deck faces the sun all day and the lake doesn’t keep anything cooler. I did enjoy those mosquito free evenings, now with all the rain they’ll be out in force.
What gets me about Madison is not the heat but the vapidity.
Tim, people in Madison are hardly vapid. It’s a colorful vibrant city filled with colorful and vibrant people. Madison and surrounding towns have been picked as the most desirable places to live in the entire country over and over again. My daughter and son in law just got their bid accepted on a house in Monona, a town that is completely surrounded by Madison and on Lake Monona, which Althouse has posted pictures of numerous times. Do you know that the real estate market in Madison and surrounding areas is so hot (especially Monona) that people are offering 20 to 30 thousand over asking price just to be in the running? Don’t bash Madisonians as vapid, you’d be lucky to live there. I bet Althouse doesn’t ever move away
It has been blazing hot here in Oak Ridge, TN for the last 3-4 days (mid 90s), but not unbearable since the dew points were still in the upper 50s to low 60s. That seems set to change over the next 3-4 days, though, as we end up on the other side of the high pressure ridge in the eastern half of the US.
”Madison and surrounding towns have been picked as the most desirable places to live in the entire country over and over again.”
Shhh...
Original Mike,
Classic bowline formation.
June gloom today... will barely crack 60
Althouse finds low 70's a tad warm. I pay Florida Power & Light a small fortune every month just cool the house to Althouse's tad warm temperature. We are each happy in our own way. $750,000 for a home in Madison? I thought those kind of prices are only in coastal areas and in Chicago. Where does one go if they cash out in Madison?
“$750,000 for a home in Madison? I thought those kind of prices are only in coastal areas and in Chicago. Where does one go if they cash out in Madison
There are homes along the inland lake I live on that go for over a million. People apparently want to live in Wisconsin.
House is very, very nice inside. Plus, they have a harp. A very, very nice harp.
They cut the price by 45k after one month on the market. They want out. Lowball it for 675, fix the yard, re-list for 775, then move on to the next one.
"fix the yard"
It's an odd-shaped lot that extends way out into a point. I don't know what problem you see with it. It's a very exposed section of yard with sidewalk along 2 sides. For someone who wants people to see their garden, it could be fun. There's little car traffic, but you get a nice number of pedestrians. That could be rewarding to a gardener.
I was looking at a picture of the back yard stripped of grass.
Inga said...
“$750,000 for a home in Madison? I thought those kind of prices are only in coastal areas and in Chicago. Where does one go if they cash out in Madison
There are homes along the inland lake I live on that go for over a million. People apparently want to live in Wisconsin."
Wow! That's a lot of cabbage for a town of a quarter million and a county of five hundred thousand. How big a lot and how large a house for a mil along the inland lake?
The tree on the right really got hit bad by the storm.
I've been going out about 6 am to do work outside, and by 8 I'm a puddle. Weather report is highs well over 90 for the next two weeks, lows in the 70's. And the humidity started over a month earlier than usual. The floor is rotting in our full-to-the-gills storage building, so a third of it needs to come out.
“Wow! That's a lot of cabbage for a town of a quarter million and a county of five hundred thousand. How big a lot and how large a house for a mil along the inland lake?”
From 3 to 6 thousand square feet and usually no more than .5 acre, with roughly about 100 feet of lake frontage. These homes aren’t in Dane County, they’re in Waukesha County along a chain of lakes in what we call Lake Country. The biggest home for sale now is over 6 thousand square feet at $1.8M.
Oh, and the biggest town in Lake Country is population 16.5 thousand. People pay big bucks to live on a lake.
Average home prices in Waukesha County subdivions away from a lake are around $400,000 to $700,000, a few over a million.
Unknown said..
85 is cool and comfortable! Perfect running or cycling temperature.
6/17/18, 9:18 AM
You spelled 65 wrong.
Giant standing pools of water? Are you kidding me? Come on down to the Houston area, and I'll show you giant standing pools of water!
I go out walking after midnight.
“I go out walking after midnight.”
Out in the moonlight.
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