A 4-letter word

[gettingthere]

It's rain. This part of north eastern Ontario, Canada has been one of the wettest summers in a long while. I have considered taking a course on Ark building--does anyone know of one somewhere? If the rain was snow we'd be buried in the stuff by now!
How about your neck of the woods, corner of the world? Surely I'm not the only one complaining about the weather!!!

Donna

[Rod in Japan]

Can you send me a few bottles please?
Here 'suns' is a four-letter word (that 'sunshine' with the excess letters cut off).
My clover lawn makes a crispy-crunch sound when I walk on it. I think we're in for a proper drought this year.

[Millymollymandy]

I have a crispy lawn too! Look on the bright side, it doesn't need mowing.

I'm joking, we really want some proper rain here, not just a bit that lands on the surface then evaporates in the high winds we keep having.

I shall remember this summer as the windy one.

[ina]

Here it's cold. July wasn't too bad - not too much rain, although a but humid towards the end. But August has so far been too cold for the season. Have put out my long johns...

[Millymollymandy]

Didn't you get a day when it hit 26C Ina? Is that a record for the Aberdeen area?

[ina]

Didn't you get a day when it hit 26C Ina? Is that a record for the Aberdeen area?

That was in July - a distant memory! It may well be a record; I'll have to check (don't know where my boss hides the weather data of previous years, and he's on holiday at the moment).

[sleepyowl]

The soil is still moist here but it ain't bucketing it down

[Thomzo]

Well I think we had some sunshine in April here in Swindon. Not seen much recently though. I'm sat here in a fleece at the moment so I guess that means it's COLD!

Zoe

[the.fee.fairy]

work...that most abhorred of all four letter words!

[shell]

rain, rain, and more rain to come,all my garden awash,muddy sludgy boggy land,the dogs are all the same colour though they shouldn`t be,the kids too when they go out seem to turn the same colour as the dogs,and my floor,my flowers havn`t come up this year though i`ve seeded twice,and even my sons magnolia has just three leaves on it and nothing else,the good news is my fennel is beautiful and tall,must take a pic of it,and my lettuces and sunflowers are good too,

[Marc]

You don't say where you are shell? - it's rained a fair bit here in Sussex, not the wettest we've even had but certainly on the damp (and windy) side.

[Flo]

I'm waterlogged on the allotment. So rain is definitely a swear word - especially as there is so much that needs doing. It was dry enough yesterday evening to turn a sodden compost heap onto one which has been under black polythene. However the pigeon loft offerings stuck well to the shoes and it was a beggar to get them clean.

[Bluemoon]

We've had an incredibly wet summer. The pumpkins seem to be loving it, but the potatoes look like they've had enough and are dying back far earlier than I'd have expected, given the amount of time they've been in. The lady on the next plot to ours says that she's got a very small crop (numerically average, but the size of the individual spuds is small). So we dug a couple of ours to check and they seem ok. It's been really warm though, even on the overcast/rainy days.