The Joneses wrote:
> "George Shirley" > wrote in message
> ...
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>>With daily temperatures running up into the middle nineties Farenheit the
>>old garden isn't producing a lot. A few tomatoes along, the beets are
>>really slowing up (and I so wanted to send some to Barb), so are the
>>carrots. The greens are gone, most of the bush beans are shot and it seems
>>the eggplant are done early this year. The figs haven't started coming in
>>and the kumquats and the lemon tree are blooming like crazy, citrus smell
>>all over the backyard. The Japanese persimmon has lost most of its fruit
>>and we will be lucky to get any at all. the sunchokes, aka Jerusalem
>>artichokes, are producing but we will sieve them out of the soil and sell
>>them at the farmers market. Neither of us can tolerate them without a
>>whole bottle of Beano inside us. Pity because they are tasty when fresh.
>>The blueberries and blackberries are done too. I guess if we could
>>zinnias, torenias, and a few other flowers we would be okay but normally
>>we only eat the pansies, nastursiums, and violets in a salad.
>>
>>By the way, how is the weather in El Paso del Norte?
>>
>>George, who sometimes, in the wee hours, wishes he lived at least one heat
>>zone further north
>>
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> Daily temps in the lower 100's, and overwhelming humidity sometimes clear up
> to 30%. I can hardly breathe. We siesta during the noonish hours. And my
> garden is pretty bare, too. Afraid to plant anything for fear it'll get
> scorched between sunrise and sunset.
> Edrena
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>
30% humidity sounds like heaven. When we lived in Saudi Arabia we had
humidity about 20-30% and loved it. Humidity here on the Gulf Coast is
more likely to be 90 to 96% and only drops lower than that when it
rains. We hide in the air conditioned house when it gets that hot and
wet. Nearly everyone here has air conditioned cars and air conditioned
houses. when I was a kid we had an attic fan and you finally cooled off
about 2 am only to get heated up again by 9 am. My folks were one of the
first families where we lived to get ac and they got it after I went in
the Navy in 1957, along with central heat, a television, etc. Dad said
it was because the grocery bill dropped $80 a month after I left home. I
didn't believe him until my kids left home. Stay out of the hot and wet
Edrena.

George