This heat is overwhelming! My third straight day with a high in the 100s. Prior to this streak, I'd had only two such highs in the 10 previous years combined!!

I am mostly having to forsake my garden. I can only water on Sundays and there is simply too much to keep up with. This is without question the worst dry spell I have ever witnessed. I have never seen my grass so dry, and I have a few serrata hydrangeas with mostly dead leaves. It is very depressing to go outside.

I feel your pain and it really hurts! I just posted pictures of my canteloupe vines on another thread and I'm totally embarrassed to put pictures of my pole beans...they are dying too quickly to keep up. That's not all I'm losing but like you said, gaalan, it's too depressing to think about.

And to think that during the first two or three weeks of July, I actually heard people COMPLAINING about the rain??? I'm afraid that old addage, "Be careful for what you wish...you just might get it," is truer than I ever thought!

The school system up here cancelled all outside activities this past week...it's getting bad!

Stay dry (no perspiration...yeah, right), stay cool, and do your best to survive!

Beverly

Yeah, that was me. I did seem that it was never going to stop raining.

We started watering this week.I've already lost two new azaleas that I planted this year and they never got going. The lawn was looking so good, but is frying again. No rain is forecast this week.

LOL! Oh Buford...I wasn't pointing any fingers on this forum! I actually "heard" people complaining, and frankly I was so tempted to do so myself since I had some new perennial flowers to drown, but then I kept thinking, "God blessed us with rain...God blessed us with rain...God blessed us with rain." Now I totally regret even entertaining the thought of saying, "I wish it'd stop raining!"

I started watering again this week too, and since it had been awhile I've gotten out of the habit of watering early in the morning on my allotted days. Whew! It's a lot of work to do that!

For some reason, though, my plants just don't do as well with city water as they do with rain water. All those purifying chemicals must give them indigestion.

Beverly

YES PLEASE....send them in. This is getting to be a nightmare. I ran the water in our well dry (when I say dry I mean it fell below pump level) twice in 4 days and we have a deep well. The underground stream must not be filling up the well as quickly as it used to which is alarming. Used to be I had enough water for all the household chores plus I could easily water with soaker hoses 4-5 hours or so a day if need be with no problem. Now our well went dry the other day after using soaker hoses for less than two hours and then hubby went to take a shower and of course that's when it goes out. Grrrrr.

All I can use at this point for a while is the condensate from our AC units. Usually collect about 7 gallons a day which is barely enough to keep some of the newly planted things from dying. I had a ton of plants potted up for sale and trade and I'm probably going to lose alot of them if this keeps up. Either that or I'll have to load all 250 or so of them into the truck every other day and water them from my father-in-law's well since he's never home.

OK, I'm done sharing my misery. Someone else's turn...
Danielle

Unfortunately we buried our AC lines when we had our backyard landscaped.

And make that 4 azaleas gone.. one left. Luckily they were only $1.98.....

Well, our little plea may have worked - it is quite cloudy in my area this morning. And while those clouds may not bring rain, they are a welcome relief and will no doubt to contribute to the fact that it will only get to 94 degrees today.

It wa very nice and cloudy yesterday till around 3:30pm. My high was only 90°, ten degrees lower than Saturday!

My temperatures in the garden were in the upper 70's for most of the day, with a nice easterly breeze. VERY confortable. After the afternoon sun appeared, temps rose to low 80's.
Still confortable in the shade.
Even without some much needed rainfall, I vote for more days like yesterday!
Rb

Welcome back to death valley.

I really haven't seen a lot of heat stress in my yard or surrounding woods. In fact I was at the grcery store the day before yesterday and parked under a river birch that looked as happy as could be. How strange. Just now seeing just a yellow leaf or two on the tulip poplars but overall not too bad.

Yup...we have become desert-dwellers.

Yesterday on our way from Cartersville to Marietta, around Alatoona Lake I noticed the trees in the distance turning yellow and orange-brown. I guess the stress is starting to get to them, too.

Remember last year's fall foilage? It was gorgeous, and I heard it was mainly because of the rain we got in October (maybe late Sept...can't remember for sure) I am surely hoping for the same thing to happen this year!

I have never seen my grass so dry. Its strange to see tall weeds and grass along the roads so wilted and brown. Poplars around here are mostly covered in yellow leaves. This is perhaps the worst dry spell I have ever witnessed. If it doesn't rain tomorrow, and there is absolutely no chance of that, it will be the 15th in a row without rain. That would also make the third stretch this year of 15 days in a row without rain. This is truly unbearable!

Not long ago I was watching the shows Survivorman and also Man Vs Wild on the Discover/science channel networks and on both shows they were describing the climate out in some exotic place like the Kimberly in Australia or the Kalahari in Africa. And it sounded like the weather we are having. Only difference was they got rain. Not fair. They spend a week in a true desert and get rained on meanwhile it's been like 3 weeks since a drop has fallen here. It's almost like the weather has been more extreme here and yet how is everything not dead.

It was raining the other day (finally!!!), and my son said: See mom, the rain dance you did 4 years ago is finally paying off.
He is my little comedian.