AAAARRRRGGGHHH more rain (Mexico, Columbia: house, tornadoes, living)

[krisk590]

Originally Posted by 7th generation

We need it. April's total was less than 50% of normal.
It's messing up the farmers as far as planting, but the upside is if it rains now, we (hopefully) will have a nice sunny summer.

....mmmmm, sun, beer, seafood.......

Keep dreaming!

[krisk590]

I checked the 10 day weather for Bridgton. Argggggg!!!!! 8 days of rain and 2 days of clouds. No amount of vitamin d tabs will help with this. People in this state are deficiant in vit d. Low vitamin d can cause bodyaches,depression.

[namder1]

I forget which state is number 1 in suicides....Maine or Oregon.....no joke! They say it is weather related.

[Zymer]

Originally Posted by maine4.us

It is so bad here, that people are mowing in the rain. I managed to sneak one in the other day, I barely finished when it started raining again. I need to mow every 5 days here with all this rain, but it is almost impossible.

A summer with higher precipitation is forecast by the weather guys. Hope it is not a repeat of summer before last.

I've given up. Too much grass, too much rain, mower gets gummed up with wet grass too frequently, too little time and gas costs too much to try and keep up. If it stops raining long enough I may try to reclaim some of the area around the house.

On the plus side, maybe we'll get two hayings in this year...if I was successful in convincing the deer farmer that I should be getting something in return for providing feed for his deer...otherwise, I'll just let *that* grow too.

[Zarathu]

Yeah... well I wish I could have sneaked in a mo, but my riding mower and my weedhacker in collusion and in their infinite wisdom chose to both die at the end of the rain. So..... since my house is for sale, I cannot do without either, and I had to spring for a Huskee push mower, and a new Poulan Weed whacker. Hopfully I get my riding mower back soon, if I can find someone who actually fixes them anymore. The mower needs either a new starter switch or starter motor or solonoid or all three.

Now a mowing job which used to take 40 minutes in a sitting position, takes 2 hours of strenuous activity.

[cebdark]

Originally Posted by krisk590

I checked the 10 day weather for Bridgton. Argggggg!!!!! 8 days of rain and 2 days of clouds. No amount of vitamin d tabs will help with this. People in this state are deficiant in vit d. Low vitamin d can cause bodyaches,depression.

Yeah, well I'm ready to replace all of my house light bulbs with sun lamp bulbs and turn every durn one of them on all day.

The electric company would love me, but I'd probably have to pick up a second job to pay for that and heating oil.

[jonsereed]

we got an insane amount of rain here too (quebec), severe flooding in the richelieu river valley which feeds off lake champlain.

it was beautiful though the last 2 days , but cloudy today with showers probable. those puddles and ditches havent got time to dry up.

i suspect the air force (i.e. black flies , mosquitos, deer flies etc) will patrol the area for a good while this year.

[SportFury59]

Originally Posted by Zarathu

Yeah... well I wish I could have sneaked in a mo, but my riding mower and my weedhacker in collusion and in their infinite wisdom chose to both die at the end of the rain. So..... since my house is for sale, I cannot do without either, and I had to spring for a Huskee push mower, and a new Poulan Weed whacker. Hopfully I get my riding mower back soon, if I can find someone who actually fixes them anymore. The mower needs either a new starter switch or starter motor or solonoid or all three.

Now a mowing job which used to take 40 minutes in a sitting position, takes 2 hours of strenuous activity.

For Zarathu it might be too late but might help others.
Pertaining to riding mowers here's a tip I discovered. When trying to start, if tractor acts like it needs a new starter, solenoid, or battery, whack the starter with a rubber hammer while turning key. That just might enable the starter mechanism to engage.
I had that problem with one of my tractors and bought a new battery and solenoid, and still same problem. Learned of rubber hammer trick on tractor forum. I have to use that "trick" on one of my tractors at least 3 times a month.
I have 5 tractors so new parts will not go unused

[Maineah]

This is becoming a very bad spring. It's 48 degrees, raining, windy, and feels more like late March than late May. I'll have to put the three point PTO driven finish mower on the the back of the tractor to knock down the lawn. It's crazy. We have so much to do outside it isn't funny. I'll be a month behind soon. So much for getting a jump on things. At this rate we'll have to buy most of our firewood seasoned as we won't have time to cut, split and get it dry by fall. Just lovely weather!

[krisk590]

I know,feel the same but at least our houses are still standing.