THIS AND THAT – NOVEMBER
It sure seems like November has arrived early this year. We have had a busy year and it has just sped by. Fall weather has been by far the most pleasant weather of the year [...]
THIS AND THAT – OCTOBER 2022
R SCHNEIDER’S THIS AND THAT OCTOBER 2022 We are still having summer-like weather in early October. This I planted a second crop of all my garden vegetables in the hope that a milder fall [...]
R SCHNEIDER’S THIS & THAT SEPTEMBER
We finally got a break in the weather in the last ten days of August. The temperatures have dropped below 100 and we actually received a few inches of rain. So far this year we [...]
AUGUST NEWS
Summer has been here since May. The weather man says we are on track for 70 plus 100 degree days this year (last year we had six 100 degree days). My garden is in distress [...]
JULY NEWSLETTER
June was an exceptionally hot month - we hit or exceeded 100 degrees twelve times in June and the rest of the month was in the high 90's. My vegetable garden has been producing since [...]
JUNE 2022 NEWSLETTER
May was essentially mid-summer weather here. We had many days of 100 degree highs and little rain. Nevertheless we had a lot of success with our garden again this year. Vegetables and flowers are doing [...]
MAY NEWSLETTER
Spring kind of slipped by us here unnoticed. We went from a very mild winter to a few weeks of spring like weather and then summer like weather with most days in the mid-80's and [...]
APRIL NEWSLETTER
March was a fun month . We switched internet service in an attempt to gain faster service. So far it has been a disaster. We have had the technicians here four times and they cannot [...]
JANUARY 2022 NEWS LETTER
2021 was a whole lot better than 2020! We are back to normal activities pretty much across the board. All of the thigs we were doing at the start of 2020 we doing again. Stamp [...]
DECEMBER NEWSLETTER
Wow- two years of COVID have just passed. Things are looking a whole lot better now. We are doing just about everything we did before COVID again. We just completed a great visit with our [...]
NOVEMBER NEWS
Our weather this year has been nearly perfect - especially when we see the weather the rest of the country has been getting. Today we are in the mid 80's with forecasts for more of [...]
OCTOBER 2021
After three years here in north east Texas I should be getting used to the different weather patterns than we had in Illinois. We had a very mild summer this year with only two 100 [...]
SEPTEMBER NEWSLETTER
We are still experiencing really nice summer weather. Wichita Falls runs a TV contest each year to pick the day of the first 103 degree temperature. Last year we hit 103 in early June. So [...]
AUGUST NEWSLETTER
We finally had a slow month in July. We didn’t mail a price list in July which contributed to that but I suspect also that many of you have been enjoying a bit of summer [...]
JULY NEWSLETTER
Summer weather arrived the second week in June with 90 degree temperatures. Still spring weather was most pleasant this year and my garden has greatly benefitted. I have been picking vegetables since mid June. My [...]