Three AM and the alarm goes off. The wind machines are on in the back of Gary’s place and it is another frosty morning. This morning a few sprinklers were partly plugged. Even on the hottest sunny day, clearing plugged sprinklers is a wet and cold job. At least my car has a good heater and in thirty minute the coffee house will open. It may be a few degrees warmer than the other day but still there is ice on the aluminum pipes. The car thermometer reads a few degrees warmer than ground level. If it keeps freezing like this I will need to get a better way to monitor the temperature because it gets costly to run the pump if I don’t need to. There is always something to spend more money on and we do our part in keeping this economy going. I remembered we have an infrared food safety thermometer back at the kitchen. It measures the surface temperature, not air temperature. Tomato plants 34˚, strawberry leaves 30˚, asparagus 29˚ fava bean 24˚not protected, and the aluminum pipes 20˚!!! dry, 66˚ full of water. Even though the asparagus is below freezing, the melting and freezing of the water from the sprinklers keeps internal parts from hitting critical temperatures. A little higher humidity this morning; lots of white frost. It’s pretty in January not now.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
When is it going to quit
Three AM and the alarm goes off. The wind machines are on in the back of Gary’s place and it is another frosty morning. This morning a few sprinklers were partly plugged. Even on the hottest sunny day, clearing plugged sprinklers is a wet and cold job. At least my car has a good heater and in thirty minute the coffee house will open. It may be a few degrees warmer than the other day but still there is ice on the aluminum pipes. The car thermometer reads a few degrees warmer than ground level. If it keeps freezing like this I will need to get a better way to monitor the temperature because it gets costly to run the pump if I don’t need to. There is always something to spend more money on and we do our part in keeping this economy going. I remembered we have an infrared food safety thermometer back at the kitchen. It measures the surface temperature, not air temperature. Tomato plants 34˚, strawberry leaves 30˚, asparagus 29˚ fava bean 24˚not protected, and the aluminum pipes 20˚!!! dry, 66˚ full of water. Even though the asparagus is below freezing, the melting and freezing of the water from the sprinklers keeps internal parts from hitting critical temperatures. A little higher humidity this morning; lots of white frost. It’s pretty in January not now.
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