Forum | I'm sick of the heat...

Im not worrting in about 60 more days if no natural relief will be ih the shade of the watermelon patch,two things grow here quite well in this dry 7.5 ph soil cucumbers and watermelons.

That was one days worth Steve,threw half that manyaway that had gotten large as miss some behind all those leaves and hard to gt in the middle when they get over ten ft across.

Catalope are starting to set as see a few softballs an one pumpkin(that does have a hard time here with the vines drying out)

Its easy to get field corn to top out over ones head but sweet corn anything over waist high is good-weird aint it.

Stink bugs will eat holes in the tomatoes if left till ripe,yet they dont bother cukes or watermelons,only pest to the melons is groundhogs takes a couple but they can roll one over the hill after testing a few others for samples.

Cure for the bugs is marigolds-they grow 2 ft tall here lol,cure for the groundhogs is a 16 ga

Cure for boredom is plant a garden,defend the garden,then try an eat all of it.

And while out there dont let the watermelon vines grab hold of ya.

NOPE! Be just fine with me!!!!

I think both of us are past WORKING IN THAT STUFF, while i dont speak for Steve both of us are retired-early medical reasons.

Meanwhile life goes on-heat continues but just as you asked how long till we can fish in the winter,its about the same now till it cools off -one month more of hot hot,one month of semi off and on hot then its not summer,with about 8 weeks of super great fishing,till its cold enuff one deisres the coffee pot and wanting summer.

Its normally hot here from june till sept,but like the rains in april the thousand year flood its a 100 year heat wave id say at a guess.

Accessing the murry state water recirds indicate water temp was 5 deg less this time last year.

I tought your house was rather well shaded unlike mine

Blame it on BP,global warmng,IBM,TVA and Hillory.

If i recall you coulndt wait for it to get to spring asking how long the winter lasts,they are short,spring is short,summer is fairly long,fall is short and late leaves leaving in nov.

Suspect you need to do less outside.Knida hard when trying to get a place setup the way you want it though.But its a needed thing less activity when its this hot.

Yup…. it's like that here too! I got the air temp accessorie for my SmartCraft gauge set @ 10:30 this morning is was registering 99 degrees! I came off the lake today at 11:30 and yesterday at 1:30. Just didn't feel like battling the heat and recreational boaters trying to locate some good fish and got tired of catching dinks in the backs of coves. Howev'a…. I was in the back of one of the major creeks this morning and a guy in a boat close by asked if I had a scale… well of course. He weighed n' released an 8.75 from the area I was fishing. I'd'a needed about 15 of the fish I was catching to hit 8.75!

Ok then…. wear one'a them sunbrella hats then mount a mister fan on it – wa'la… problem solved. Of course iffen I was gonna wear that stuff…. I'd make dang sure I was fishing at night sooo's noboddies could see me!

Install A/C on the Triton! Problem solved.

Wear an A/C suit.

Fish at night…. hey that's not a bad idea! I luv night fishing!