I just had to comment on Colorado's nutty weather. Here it is, May 20th - almost summer and it was a lovely 75 to 80 degrees this morning. Well out of nowhere this afternoon, around 4:00, the clouds came in and in a matter of 3 hours the temp dropped to 30 and it is snowing hard...the ground is covered.

Wow. Springtime in the Rockies. I love it.

-- andrea smith (a-smith@mindspring.com), May 20, 2001

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Hi all hope everyone had a good week.Andrea how high are you? we finally got 1 inch 7 tenths of rain sat and i tilled and hoed today.talk about drybut my garden looks good after getting it worked. i have corn about 18 in. tall and tomatoes looking good. i set a cattle panel on a slight angel for my cucumbers to vine on and another one to tie the tomatos to. im so pooped im glad ive got to work tomorow so i can loaf. you all have a good week Bob se.ks.

-- Bobco (bobco@hit.net), May 20, 2001.

Andrea: Where in Colorado are you? We live on the eastern plains, east of Colorado Springs, and the wind just blew some of the siding off the house! Just finished putting wall o waters on the tomatoes, since it was supposed to get cold tonight, and the wind blew them all down--You just can't win. It was nice today, earlier, tho. Jan

-- Jan in CO (Janice12@aol.com), May 20, 2001.

Jan, we live in Denver, but have a small house on 5 acres near Westcliffe. It is at approx. 7300 feet. I had to drive down there today to get a sample of our well water cuz I am having it tested and the drive was great. It was perfect from Denver to Westcliffe. But by the time I got back to Denver I had my heater on in my car, the wind was howling and it was snowing. We now have a good inch of snow on our lawn and it is 30 degrees.

But I love Colorado because I can always be sure the sun will be shining tomorrow and the snow will be gone. Oh, how do people in Seattle cope?

How far east of Colorado Springs are you?

-- andrea smith (a-smith@mindspring.com), May 20, 2001.

Hi i'm Lisa from Arizona I would like to have your weather .thru we had 15 minutes of hard wind , dust some rain and 17 hours no power corn all bent over everything in the yard blowen away just a big mase not enought rain to wet the ground.temp about 101 humety 30% hot Hot Hot Hot.

-- lisa j miller (ljmill35@aol.com), May 21, 2001.

Wow! And I thought that New England's weather slogan was "just wait a minute and it will change". Guess it applies to Colorado, too!! Love the four seasons though.

-- Marcia (HrMr@webtv.net), May 21, 2001.

Speaking of the weather.......tornado ally really lived up to its name last night! I'm in NE Oklahoma. We had rotating wall clouds and tornados all around us. I have not heard the official report of how many, but I know of at least two touchdowns within 30 miles of us. The storms were coming in waves with each having its own rotating wall. Pretty exciting evening. We've heard reports of some damage but no injuries so far.

As I was huddled in the kitchen watching weather reports, my perverse family was in the living room watching TWISTER!!!

-- Mona in OK (jascamp@ipa.net), May 21, 2001.

Jan, I know this isnt about weather, but I noticed you brought up the fact that your Wall-o-Water's blew down.

I like to use old milk jugs filled with water. I place four around each plant and it protects far better than the thin Wall-o-Water things. Far cheaper, recycles trash, and it- Wont blow down either!

-- daffodyllady (daffodyllady@yahoo.com), May 21, 2001.

Sigh.

Rain.

Even snow sounds good.

What did we get out of it all here in the South Georgia/North Florida area? "Partly cloudy. 30% chance of rain." So far - nada.

And the drought goes on.

Mowed the lawn last weekend just to knock down the deep rooted weeds and it stirred so much dust up I had to replace the air filter on my brand new mower.

Just call us Aridzona East.

={(Oak)-

-- LiveOak (oneliveoak@yahoo.com), May 22, 2001.