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Raining here today, wasn't forecasted yesterday, good thing I pulled the front of the X728 with the electric ditch/hillside trimmer into the workshop yesterday when I quit mowing!
 
Storms mostly missed us yesterday afternoon, got some light rain and distant thunder. The T-storms probably only missed us by a few miles.

Some areas down in RI got flash floods, but nothing like that here, thankfully.

Mike
 
Likewise here in southwest Wisconsin. I haven't mowed for 2 weeks. I could mow would expect it to turn brown if I did. We did get some drizzles yesterday afternoon but did not amount to anything.
 
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It was a hot 99 degrees and I cut my grass today with a bagger and decided to dethatch the entire lawn. Then I recut the entire lawn with a bagger and ended up filling eight containers of dead grass. Thinking its going to be hot for a while I'm going to wait until October to seed. Since I had all the trees removed in the front yard, my grass turn brown and daed.
 
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Haven't seen this in a good while around here:

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Air conditioner is running full time right now. Wife is running the clothes dryer.....Oh well.
Our electric bill was $400 last month and the thermostat was on 76. Last year the bills were about 200 to 250 during the summer. I think we got a rate increase too but we had 47 days above 90 degrees. so far.
 
Our laundry is in the basement, so no heat gained from that.

BUT, I have three other people in the house who think nothing of running the oven in the kitchen on a hot summer day...

Mike
 
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My wife runs that hairdryer for hours doing her hair. I told her about that and running that clothes dryer with just a couple panties in it. Them long hot showers too. But really the electric company sent me a letter after I got the bill and said if I raise my thermostat up, my bill would have been cheaper. It was at 76, I may as well just turn the furnace off.
 
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