HI Mark,   
      
   On Wed 2012-Jul-11 07:47, Mark Hofmann (1:261/1304) wrote to Richard Webb:   
      
   RW>   THat's a lot of work.  Did you reseed your yard?   
   RW> If so you'll be wanting to treat it nicely, and spend some   
   RW> dough watering it, especially the way this summer looks like it's going.   
      
   MH> It turns out 18 yards was just enough.  We have to go around the   
   MH> entire house, around various trees, and have a few large gardens in   
   MH> the back.  This keeps them from being taken over by weeds and keeps   
   MH> the moisture in the ground (what little there has been lately).   
      
   Sounds like a bit of fun.  IF I were landlord here I'd find   
   something, some variety of fescue or something (I think   
   that's what it's called) that doesn't need as much sun,   
   because of all the tree cover.  But then, if i were   
   landowner I'd do something about all the wood overhead that   
   needs a thinning out, but the storms last year and year   
   before have done plenty for clearing deadwood out of trees.   
   But, with all the tree cover overhead we've got patchy turf, little in the   
   front, and a bit on the hillside in back of   
   the house.   
      
   Trouble with the front is that it slopes downhill to the   
   street, and the solution for that soil erosion has been   
   railroad tie barriers which shift over time.  Were it me,   
   I'd try to  find a plant that gets a good root hold and   
   doesn't suffer if sunlight levels are a bit low because of   
   all the foliage overhead.  But, that's me, and, I don't own   
   it ,grin>.   
      
   RW> YEah, guy I know in Virginia just got his power on this   
   RW> afternoon for a bit, then it went off again.  DOn't know how my buddyin   
   RW> Hagerstown made out.   
      
   MH> All the damage and outages were to my south and west.  About 20-30   
   MH> miles away. Towson and Baltimore City got hit the hardest with the   
   MH> power outages and trees down.    
      
   YEp, emailed my buddy in hagerstown just before i conversed   
   wtih you on this, adn got email back from him.  HE's in good shape, but his   
   mom in Ohio was without services.   
      
   MH> Now that the major heat wave has let up for the time being, we are   
   MH> still in need of some rain.  Somehow we didn't get any rain when the   
   MH> front passed through.  There is a change of some afternoon storms   
   MH> later this week - and we could use the rain.   
      
   We've gotten a taste of rain, and the heat's let up a little bit finally.  Now   
   I'm frustrated by another weather related   
   problem and radio noise thanks to a power company problem.   
   Dry conditions that persist mean somethign is arcing on one   
   of the utility poles around here, and it's radiating down   
   the power lines making my usual radio direction finding   
   techniques unreliable.  NOw that we've had a bit of moisture I note it's gone.   
      
   I'm hoping that it was some homeowner's equipment or   
   something, and it crumpled and died, just so it's not   
   broadcasting hash and trash down the grid, but still think   
   it's a utility co thing.  We'll see if it comes back, but it disappeared just   
   before teh bit of rain yesterday again, and hasn't appeared since.   
   We'll be going out later, were going to go to a meeting in   
   the city last night, but it was looking like severe wx so we stayed home.   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
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