I like the term Pineapple Express better than Atmospheric River.
We could get 2 inches of rain, which I know sounds like a pittance compaired to rain events elsewhere.
Been trying to finish out projects. I got the latest old pallet into the cat yard and set up with a shelf. They like it. I will add shelf jumps, but haven't yet. It's easy to do with a pallet, just stick boards through it, and attach. Makes an easy jump climb top to bottom on both sides. I just have to come up with some boards first.
There used to be an old couch frame, painted, there, for a climb but it rotted a fell apart after years.
I got the blinds down from the front windows too. They have been a pain and won't roll up anymore and blow up onto the roof in wind, which we are also to get, along with the rain.
I threw out the most damaged set and rolled up the other set because I know it will make a nice mat out in the cat yard.
I trimmed some of the side yard shrubs down too, for the winter. And the raspberry canes too.
I got a lot of raspberries off those, all summer long.
Still getting tons of apples. 20 lbs of good ones I took off the tree today. I made an apple crisp and am now drying thin slices in the oven on low. My neighbor gave me a hand crank vegetable slicer, said she accidentally got two. The only issue with it is the suction on the bottom doesn't really work, to hold it in place when turning the crank. It comes with about five different blade sets and one was perfect for thin slicing apples.
The birds are after the apples big time now. They don't start taking chunks from one and finish it. It's like they taste test many.
The Coopers Hawk tries to get the birds when they go into the apple tree.
The hawk can't get at them in the forsythia or the butterfly bush.
Tugs is looking so old. She has that big eyed super old look now but still is eating, drinking and cuddles with the other cats.
I'm headed to Cascadia Sunday mid day to pick up four cats at one of the homeless camps up there. I've been there before. Once again, the man isn't responding but I am assuming its his phone again, either out of minutes or not working. The cell reception up there is pretty darn sketchy too.
Well here's to the Pineapple Express.
There is a lot you could do with pallets, assembled and disassembled. I think they are quite expensive to actually buy.
ReplyDeleteThere are entire websites dedicated to pallet uses. People make sheds, fences, furniture!
DeleteI hope there are no geese overhead.....:)
ReplyDeleteLOL Bill, there have been a few flyover flocks but I duck inside. No direct hits yet!
DeleteThat’s a good use for the pallet. Around here, people are often giving them away. Do you see that there?
ReplyDeleteYes, can find them everywhere. When I get cat litter now (I use wood pellet fuel due to my allergies to conventional litter dust), the feed store delivers them on a pallet and offers it to me. Otherwise he has to get rid of it. I've already got one set up in the cat yard, with a shelf, that they really love. They're easy to find free around here--yes.
DeleteI like Pineapple Express too. Does that mean the atmospheric river is coming from Hawaii?
ReplyDelete"Atmospheric rivers, as their name implies, are large channels of water in the atmosphere. They vary in size but can be 250–375 miles wide and over 1,000 miles long. Some carry more water than the biggest river on land, the Amazon River. Atmospheric rivers play important roles in annual water supplies around the world. These weather events supply 30–50% of precipitation and account for 90% of south-north water vapor transport for the U.S. west coast. In the northern hemisphere, this water transport usually starts in the south in the tropics and ends in the north. These storms were first defined by the term “atmospheric rivers” in the 1990s. Prior to that, the most famous atmospheric river in the northern hemisphere was often referred to as the “Pineapple Express” or “Chinook Winds,” and is still referred to that way. This particular atmospheric river pattern brings water from near Hawaii to the west coast of North America."
Delete2" sounds like a lot to me! Stay safe. Those apple slices look delicious!
ReplyDelete2" is plenty! They're quite good once dried to chip brittle or just to chewy.
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