Tambora's seven mile wide crater...picture taken 10-19-2010.
Posted on 03/12/2005 8:10:49 PM PST by blam
Here in Michigan, 2 years ago, we had a snowstorm on May 6 - got about 5 inches. And I've seen plenty days in June that felt cold enough for snow.
The fact that the Earth has remained temperate, (between the freezing point and the evaporation point of water) for the last like 3.5 billion years is remarkable.
We are at just the right distance, just the right size to not have a crushing atmosphere, been pretty lucky.
It could change in a decade.
I grew up in upstate New York, where domestic and wild apple trees are everywhere.
The wild varieties tend to be a bit softer than the hybrids but they are extremely sweet and seem to ripen overnight. They don't store well, except when they got 16 inches of snow over them.
Pretty much the same with the pears, but they are usually harder and last longer.
I miss the black raspberries.
May 5 snowstorm on the day we closed on the house here in central Wisconsin eight or so years ago. Only a couple of inches though & it melted that day.
This is when my ancestors, who had lived in New England since the 1600's, packed it in and headed for sunny Illinois.
Yow! Those are big potatoes!
Yeah, 2003 and 2004 had long, wet, cold springs, which made me think of the sudden end to good weather at the beginning of the Little Ice Age (not that I was there, just read about it). Due to changes in agricultural methods since 1900, the US generated its largest ever grain crop last year, despite the crappy spring around here (Michigan).
A couple of our neighbors have old-fashioned cider presses, so when the time is right we usually have a big party, everybody brings baskets of apples and jugs, and we handle the problem that way.
My wife also makes applesauce and freezes it. The little old-fashioned apples always make much better applesauce than the commercial brands.
Wife fryed up yukon golds today, that had been down root cellar; they are actually sweeter than when dug last summer.
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12 kids, eh? Probably died in bed. ;’)
The huckleberries look to be a bumper yield (which I plan to take advantage of as soon a this heat wave easies up some).
Good for you. My loquat tree died from the cold.
Tambora is acting up again?
Got food?
Tambora's seven mile wide crater...picture taken 10-19-2010.
Note: this topic is from 3/12/2005. Thanks blam.Oddly, I'd never added the keyword or pinged this.
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