{"id":227,"date":"2017-02-07T19:26:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T03:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/?p=227"},"modified":"2017-02-07T21:19:52","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T05:19:52","slug":"oh-the-wind-and-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonflaherty.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/07\/oh-the-wind-and-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh the wind and rain…"},"content":{"rendered":"

This has been\u00a0my first full year in Oregon in over 20 years. We’ve been living in much drier environments. Drier air, drier soil and drier shoes. If you don’t own a pair of rubber boots you are a soggy footed feirmeoir when you are in the field. This year especially. January dropped nearly 5″ of rain… still about 1.5″ off the record of 6.6″ in 1936. During heavy rainfall, I felt like 5″ fell in one storm… by the way, how exactly do you measure rainfall?<\/p>\n

According to infoplease<\/a>.com:\u00a0Most standard rain gauges have a wide funnel leading into the cylinder and are calibrated so that one-tenth of an inch of rain measures one inch when it collects inside<\/strong>. The funnel is 10 times the cross-sectional area of the tube.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was out digging fence post holes to put up a new fence around the garden. We acquired beautiful 5’x5’x8′ Juniper rough cut posts to wrap the dear and orchard fence on. Without a dog, deer will enjoy the fruits of our hard labor. Anyhow, the 2′ deep (8″ wide) holes would charge half full of water in about 5 minutes. It made for a questionable cementing mixture. Three days later the cement seems to have cured pretty well. I’ll be putting in the other 19 posts in the next few days and, as soon as the ground dries a little, get the beds prepped to start planting. Some year<\/em> I am not going to go to a supermarket for any produce! After that, no meat or dairy! I’ll probably always go for oil I guess… or maybe some ice cream on a binge…<\/p>\n