http://www.catskillhouse.us/blog Home improvement with an eye toward sustainability Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:15:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en No really.  I found this precipitation overlay on the National Weather Service web site this morning.  This is the June 2009 rainfall amounts: [caption id="attachment_1151" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="June 2009 rainfall, National Weather Service"][/caption] We quite near those pink zones in the middle of the graphic, which is 10+ inches of rain.  I ... http://www.catskillhouse.us/blog/every-time-i-turn-around-its-raining/ It is hard to take a picture of what is not there. Since June 10th, we have received 5.38 inches of rain.  That is quite a bit for a 9 day period.  Our old basement would have looked like this: [caption id="attachment_1147" align="alignnone" width="470" caption="flooded basement floor"][/caption] That is a picture from two ... http://www.catskillhouse.us/blog/basement-not-flooding/ Every winter seems bad, last year seemed terrible right through April. The mid point of this winter has just arrived and it honestly feeling like it was never ever warm here again. I was speaking to my lovely wife,  and she agreed; this winter seems colder than the ... http://www.catskillhouse.us/blog/if-it-seems-like-a-cold-winter-that-is-because-it-is/ It was cold last night, so cold I could hear the boards on the deck cracking as they froze. With the snow squeaking underfoot, I checked the thermometer on my way out the door for an early morning emergency call, -11° (F) it read. It may have been colder. I ... http://www.catskillhouse.us/blog/minus-11-and-counting/ We are receiving more snow today, I have a feeling it is going to be a bad winter. I walked up to get the mail around 3pm yesterday and took a few pictures: [caption id="attachment_923" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="snow falling on white pine tree"][/caption] All is calm as light snow falls on ... http://www.catskillhouse.us/blog/there-is-nothing-as-quiet-as-a-snow-storm/