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mleblanca wrote:

On Jun 23, 3:18 am, Cheryl Isaak wrote:
I limbed up my hemlock. I (with some help from DS, age 15) took down a pine
that really needed to go and DD ( 9) helped take down two oak branches that
were shading the bed. Lots more light getting in and a spot for bright shade
lovers.

Weeding is complete for the moment, all the chipmunk holes filled in, a
bunch of things divided and already in new homes and. I need to move or
divide some of the daylilies, but that will wait for bloom season to be
over.

I started edging it, but the rains came.

Cheryl

Cheryl
Great accomplishment. You have some wonderful kids!

There has not been much gardening here in Nor Cal for over a week.
We were camping and came home on Fri the 13th to a valley filled with
smoke. Huge fire in Paradise, which quickly made Paradise into Hell.
( we knew not about the fire as we are incommunicado when we camp)
75 homes burned, at one time 9000 people evacuated. 23,000 acres
burned. Fire contained by Wednesday, and the smoke cleared.
So I got out quickly and got some deadheading and weeding done in
the next couple of days. Hot: in the low 100s.

Late Friday the 20 and Saturday we had a terrific lightning storm
which
had no rain and hundreds of fires were ignited. On Sunday I went
hiking
with a group and on the way home we counted 7 fire plumes to the north
27 fires in Butte County alone.
Many fires are just being allowed to burn as there are no buildings
nearby.
Now the towns of Magalia and Concow are being evacuated, and the
smoke is intense here, advised to stay indoors as much as possible. We
could not see the sun at all today, Temps in the 90s
And it s still only June, the fire lookouts are not usually even
manned until
the last week of June: this is going to be some summer!

Emilie
NorCal

Thunder storms ignited over 100 fires in Northern California his last
week-end. I'm at least 100 miles from the nearest fire and the sky was
full of smoke today. We've 85% of normal rain fall but have had little
rain since March and as a result there are a lot of dry weeds, waiting
for a spark. Normally, we don't have rain from May to October.
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