Gets cold and it snows, when we get brief warm it rains. Every spring it's a no win.

Ron

 

Evidentially we are going to be 'Blessed' with a Colorado Low this week, after a really bad winter thing were just starting to look good!
I already have my seed starters sprouting!

 

Gets cold and it snows, when we get brief warm it rains. Every spring it's a no win.

Ron

Down here we're going through one of the worst draught's in history. We could use some of that rain...

 

Down here we're going through one of the worst draught's in history. We could use some of that rain...

Your welcome to come up and shovel it off my front lawn!

 

Gets cold and it snows, when we get brief warm it rains. Every spring it's a no win.

Ron

Fruit trees were in full bloom...dang.

 

Down here we're going through one of the worst draught's in history. We could use some of that rain...

Corona draught or El Niño drought, I don't know which is worse?

 

Expecting 16 inches up in the mountains. WE NEED IT! Down in the valley where I am we MIGHT see an inch or two. Probably barely get a dusting on the grass. But the forecast is for warm weather to follow the storm - so again I don't get to use my big snow blower. Yeah, the snow drought is my fault. I should have never bought that big machine.

 

Fruit trees were in full bloom...dang.

Yup! GCC.

 

This is the hot dry season here in Thailand. It has not snowed in this country any time in living memory, but when there is frost on the ground on the highest mountain (Doi Inthanon) it makes headlines in the news papers. With luck we might get a wee bit of rain toward the end of the month (which my garden really needs), then after that several months or rain for the surviving plants -which I look forward to because the there are few outdoors parties then and it stays nice and quiet around here.

 

77°F and sunny! Azelia's and Dogwood's already finished blooming. Doboy lilies blooming and roses soon. Spring has almost finished in the Low Country. Course it's still rainy and very windy often. If the seas would lay down a bit, I'd go fishin!

 

It's nice inside!

 

Of course a few more days of this and the nefarious Sand Gnat will appear. Also called the No-Seeum. A sort of piranha of the insect world that only appears when the weather is absolutely beautiful otherwise.

It is a protected species in Georgia otherwise we'd be up to our asses in Yankees!

 

Ah, springtime in Florida - This year, spring break visitors get to enjoy the Florida weather AND the joy of stings from Portuguese Man O'War - a jellyfish-like creature with a sail-like dorsal "fin" to blow the across the ocean, up to 150-foot long tentacles (depending on age), and a more powerful sting than jellyfish.
http://www.newsdaytonabeach.com/stories/man-o-war-jellyfish-spotted-in-volusia-county,11258

 

I hate those things ... I got stung by one of them in Puerto Vallarta back in 1974 ... I still remember the itch, the pain, the fever and hallucination-like state of mind that it gave me. Awful memory ...

 

Yup, spent some of my childhood in Palatka FL and often went over to the beaches around St. Augustine. Luckily never got stung by one but have seen some pretty gruesome stings being attended to by the EMS folks before taking them on to the hospital. Ammonia seemed to be the first aid antidote for em. Here on the GA coast, they are fairly uncommon but we have a small marble sized Wasp jellyfish that is not as bad as a honey bee sting but still no fun to get hit by them. And it's never just one. After a half dozen or more hits it's time to stay out of the water.

 

Yup, spent some of my childhood in Palatka FL and often went over to the beaches around St. Augustine. Luckily never got stung by one but have seen some pretty gruesome stings being attended to by the EMS folks before taking them on to the hospital. Ammonia seemed to be the first aid antidote for em. Here on the GA coast, they are fairly uncommon but we have a small marble sized Wasp jellyfish that is not as bad as a honey bee sting but still no fun to get hit by them. And it's never just one. After a half dozen or more hits it's time to stay out of the water.

University of Hawaii scientist now claims Vinegar is the recommended treatment...
https://gizmodo.com/science-reveals-the-right-way-to-treat-a-man-o-war-jel-1794880485

 

University of Hawaii scientist now claims Vinegar is the recommended treatment...
https://gizmodo.com/science-reveals-the-right-way-to-treat-a-man-o-war-jel-1794880485

I was treated with lemon back in those days ... don't remember making it any difference. OTH, without said lemon treatment things might've been much worse, since I had no reference or previous experience with that thing ... next time vinegar it is then (ascetic acid) ....

 

It could have been vinegar. That was loooong ago. One poor teenage kid was raked across his chest with huge red welts and they were icing him down while he was struggling to breathe and screaming in pain.

 

I thought it was Windex as featured in a popular comedy film “My great big fat…”.

 

Ah, springtime in Florida - This year, spring break visitors get to enjoy the Florida weather AND the joy of stings from Portuguese Man O'War - a jellyfish-like creature with a sail-like dorsal "fin" to blow the across the ocean, up to 150-foot long tentacles (depending on age), and a more powerful sting than jellyfish.
http://www.newsdaytonabeach.com/stories/man-o-war-jellyfish-spotted-in-volusia-county,11258

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/rare-man-o-war-seen-Texas-coast-17067108.php

Beachgoers have been seeing some painful stingers, known as the species that eat Portuguese man o' war, along the shores of the Texas coast

Blue Dragons, a man-o'-war-eating species, are washing up the Texas coast.

The 3 cm long creatures prey almost exclusively on the Portuguese man o' war, a jellyfish-like organism with painful stingers. The blue dragon basically kills man o' wars and steals their stinging toxins, then re-purposes those toxins into a defensive weapon, Fisher said.

Fisher said he believes strong winds must have shifted the blue dragons to wash ashore as they have been persistent in the southeast. He said winds just shift sometimes, causing the usual sighting on the beach.

If found on the beach, do not pick them up, Fisher warned. He said, "It can be painful." If stung, Fisher said to treat it as you would a man o' war sting where you use a combination of regular old vinegar and meat tenderizer. Mix into a paste and apply to the affected area. You are trying to neutralize the acidic compound of the poison in the sting.