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Our carefully tended lush green lawn is gone. Baked to a crisp by record breaking heat and dry weather.
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How dry? Severe drought dry…
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How hot?
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Feels like 108 degrees before 10 in the morning hot. I live in Maine FFS! This is not supposed to happen.
That bright green patch of sod we laid?
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Dead.
My full and healthy for the past 20 years boxwood shrubs?
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Dying.
The brand new flowering crabapple tree we planted on June 7th over my mother’s ashes?
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Might soon be joining her in the hereafter.
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It’s beyond depressing at this point and moving toward the panic stage. We live in the country and rely on a well for water. As much as I’d like to water the garden, I can’t. Hell, I’m down to doing laundry twice a week and not flushing for number one.
(TMI? Sorry.)
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As I type this, yet another flash thunderstorm is moving past us without a drop of rain falling.
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Now that’s just cruel.
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River's world..... 
That’s how we were till this weekend. Hope is on the way!!
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We’re only dye for scattered showers. Nothing healing.
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we were too.
They lied.
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I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
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Aww man, I’m sorry the drought is still going on and your beautiful garden/lawn is suffering.
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‘It’s beautiful no more.
😫
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So sorry. That must be heartbreaking to see. I was noticing this morning how low the ponds are here compared to photos I took a year ago (one of the wettest July’s on record), so your post had me checking drought.gov for Vermont. It shows 57% of the state as “abnormally dry” (including where I live), and 17% at level D1 (moderate drought). I’ll quit complaining about having to mow my lawn. Hope you get some rain soon.
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We used to mow the lawn every 4 days here in the summer. We haven’t mowed it for the last four weeks this year.
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We had one summer a few years ago where EVERY storm providing much needed rain blew by us. EVERY. ONE. That turned out like you are experiencing now. Dust for lawn. Going weeks without mowing. If not for our rain surplus pre-July we’d be in bad shape for sure, but it has rained every few days so we’re holding on to most of our greenness and mowing every four days…for now.
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This is very unusual for us. A terrible pattern we seem to be stuck in fur the duration. Add to that almost snow last winter and I’m starting to worry.
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Fingers crossed you break out of that pattern soon, as we appear to finally have done. Knock on wood.
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It’s not looking good, but thanks.
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Sounds like Maine better think seriously about building a few desalination plants along the coast to convert sea water into fresh. They’re costly, but how many more summers like this can Maine afford?
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I’m all for that. Sea levels are rising, it would be a good way to even things out.
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It’s cruel that certain parts of the US are getting way too much rain and the rest of us are just…wishin’ and a’hopin for a little spit from the skies. Feeling your pain, Mona
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California is crazy. Drought and wildfires in one part, torrential rain and floods in the other.
🤷♀️
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Heartbreaking. Fingers crossed. (I follow the “When it’s yellow, let it mellow” rule, too! TMI
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Forced mellowing isn’t nearly as much fun…
😉
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That’s true…
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I feel like a schmuck for posting about my excessively fantastic grass. You have to know you are on the short list of my favorite people in the whole blogiverse and I would never want to make light of your hardship. The well situation must be disturbing to say the least, but you do have plenty to drink so that’s something. Jesus, I can’t stop myself!
I think your boxwoods will come back fine if you cut them back. I fought them every year for a long time and they just kept getting back up so now I let the big ones ride with a little trimming and run the little guys over with the mower when they sneak out into the grass.
On a different, but still Maine related subject, I wonder how things are going in Poland. I’m guessing water plays a major part in the local economy.
I’m going to post something nice, just for you. I hope it will lift your spirits for a minute and some few seconds.
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Never apologize for humor. It is what it is and hopefully it will pass soon. Having a fully stocked bar does help.
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It would be worse if you lived in the southwest!! Plus we are also going dry which probably means we will have a hurricane or 2 this season!
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I could never live in constant heat. The three months we have make me physically ill.
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We got plenty of rain to spare. Load up your 5 gallon jugs and head on down.
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I’m thinking more along the lines of an oil tanker…
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Usually we are parched in August but this year I’m living in the opposite. It’s so rainy and moist here that it looks like Ireland, feels like Miami.
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I could do without Miami humidity but would love some Irish green right now.
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