Fog, spitty rain, rain, sunshine, lots of fog this evening. Mildew by the Sea!
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Heavy rain overnight. Woke up to a light show at 3amā¦ strong winds, downpourā¦ another 4/10 of an inch of rainā¦ about 1.5 inches total. Almost 9 inches of rain fell in 24 hours near Rochester, MNā¦ Some flooding occuringā¦
Excessive heat watch for Minneapolisā¦ Should go towards 90F here this afternoon.
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It never fails - if I ever decide my sprouting seeds could use some water and get out the hose, down comes a deluge
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Only got up to 85F but dewpoint is nearing 70F this evening. Long ish bike ride was so sweaty.
92F tomorrow and humid.
Trying some cuttingsā¦see if get anything will take.
The second week of July looks cool (cold?) out in the plains. If youāre going to have a ācoldā wave any time of the year make it July (as long as itās dry)! Of course Alaska bakes as does Florida and most of the east coast. Europe should cool off and head back towards normalsā¦northern Europe (Norway) looks chilly (iād love to go to Norway in summer)ā¦
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The toads have little legs now. There must be at least 50ā¦maybe 100.
Today is summerā¦holy hot when i went outside this morningā¦ dewpoint of 71F and the temp in the 80Fs alreadyā¦going to be a steamer. This kind of weather itās either AC or swimming or sitting in the shade.
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Ended up at 93F this afternoon ā¦
Miami, FL is 82F/73F right nowā¦iām 82F/72Fā¦ so it feels like Miami out there this evening!..
MCS should develop across North Dakota and then track across N MN as the night goes onā¦
That area can be very dangerous for campers this time of yearā¦
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The band of storms that started in North Dakota last night is just about to the Illinois border. Didnāt get much rain hereā¦just enough to wet the ground. Another band is moving thru Minneapolis which should? die out as the move southā¦who knows. Temps should move up here quickly.
Low temp last night was 74F.
Next week looks warmā¦upper 80Fsā¦very 4th of Julishā¦
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been muggy with showers but still in the low 70ās. Iām not complaining. everything is growing in turbo right now .
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Thatās just here, passing rapidly, so there wonāt be a lot of rain
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95 here today, got to 95 last two days, very hot, with no rain since Thursday. Finally dried up enough to till the gardens. Did some of that yesterday in the heat of the day (stupid idea), then planted out some peppers during the evening.
Although the sun wasnāt beating down on me, I guess I overdid it, as I had to stop after 24 plants, I was getting loopy headed, probably from not eating enough. Had time to come in and grab some supper and finish putting things up.
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There is another line right behind now that looks to move more over this area and west towards Rochesterāthat line is actually becoming strongerā¦heading down 52 in MN ā¦the line in WI heading down 94 also looks to be holding togetherā¦
Temp up to 85Fā¦
Tree frog showed up at our pondā¦ Last night we saw him out there calling.
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It looks like the line between Madison and Milwaukee got a good soaking
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Pouring hereā¦i got stuck on my bike in it.
Should rain for some timeā¦so much for 90F today.
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We donāt need it either, we had about 3 weeks worth of the stuff, I donāt like the AC running this much, but Iād much rather have it dry than rainy. Living in TX for 30 years, itās been an adjustment because there you would have 3-4 months of just brutal heat, here itās much different, but in a good way.
I changed the timing belt on my car, and since we donāt have a garage, I was at the mercy of the weather. It took me almost 2 weeks to finish the job, mostly because of waiting for parts and tools, but also intermittent storms.
I will say it was harder to dig holes for the plants, as the ground has firmed up, although I did till the plot beforehand.
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I donāt mind the rain if its spaced out, but it has become very swampy here again. There is a rain chance overnight (heavy at times) and again tomorrowā¦the whole pattern looks stuck through the next week so chances stick around the whole time (front hung up over the area).
Always buy a car with a timing chain 
I had a ford zx2 back in the early 2000s that had a timing belt and it was the design of motor (interference) that if the belt brokeā¦bye bye engineā¦so i dumped it around 100K milesā¦that one was a pita to change ā¦something like an 8 hour job for a mechanicā¦so about 6 months for me I had a timing belt break on an early 90s escort (iāve always owned fords for some reason) and nothing happened to that thing and it didnāt cost much (back then) to replace. Iāll be honest and say iād rather work on a car in 90F heat then in 20F tempsā¦nothing worse then having frozen hands that donāt work. Better yet would be own no car at all and have a limo pick me up when i need to go to the grocery store.
10F cooler right now then last night at this timeā¦feels nice out there.
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Well, the kit I got with it had it at abt 5 hours in the instructions. For me, it was about 20 hours all together, spread out over 13 days, but I didnāt work on it for several days because of the weather, or just didnāt get in a hurry.
Changing one, plus all the associated parts, like two pulleys, tensioner, and water pump requires you to basically tear the whole left side of the engine compartment out just to get to it.
At first, I said thereās no way I was going to try it, but Iāve worked on a few mechanical things since I moved here, and thought I could do it after watching a few videos and reading abt 100 forums about it. I didnāt want to pay a dealer $1k to do it, so I thought I could do it. Our resident mechanic @Steve333 was very nice to help me with some information and suggestions.
The car is running pretty smooth now, maybe this will help it improve its gas mileage some. Hopefully, if I did the job right, I wonāt have to worry about it for another 7 years, or 100k miles. It also needs an oil change, but that now seems like childās play.
True. March of last year, I had the pleasure of changing out the starter in our F150, and that was not pleasant. I remember having to stop at one time because I was being pelted by driving sleet and wind while under the truck. I got it done eventually, but that was rough when you can barely feel your fingers. Plus it seems to hurt more when that wrench slips and you hit something hard.
Has ever really dried out enough to matter? I complained about our rainy June, but itās nothing compared to what you folks have had to endure this winter /spring.
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