Which Is Better for a Middle Aged Woman - a Car Or a Pickup?

With kids, you may want to consider an SUV. I have a Ford Explorer (2002) and I can fit almost anything in it with the rear seats down. It is much larger than the body style before the current one (I think the new body style started in 2002) and you can comfortably fit the dog, bike, and kids without having one or all of them wet in the event of rain. You can find them relativly cheap. ..try ebay. We have bought 3 cars from Ebay and they were all perfect and well under the market value

1. Is August a good month to visit Maldives? Is it humid and rainy?

The wet season usually runs from June to October. During wet season, rainfall intensity-duration-frequency will increase; wind will blow longer and faster. In terms of prices it is cheaper to visit Maldives during wet season. Most of the travel agent will apply special offers, discount and others added values if you book during wet season. Air temperature and sea temperature will remain more or less the same.If you are a surfer this is the right moment to visit Maldives. The most regular and beautiful waves will develop from May to October.Diving and snorkeling conditions tend to be the same during dry and wet season.Price in August will be much more cheaper than during hot season and resorts/hotels/cruise less crowded !Basically there is no way of predicting the weather, the only solution is to decide when you can travel and enjoy your time as much as possible!Dry season is fantastic for long beach session under the sun and endless bathing in the lagoon. However rates are high and country packed with touristsDuring wet season, heat is more tolerable, price cheaper and less touristic. Although it can happen you would be unlucky to experience more than three days of solid rain. The Maldives is paradise even if it is raining and wet season is recommended for divers and surfers. Temperatures remain near the same at 28C to 30C for air and sea temperature all through the year. If you visit Maldives during rainy season you won't need to worry about being cold.However, because of global warming and climate change, weather patterns have been much more difficult to predict the last couple of years. We now see sometimes plenty of rain in November, December, January and a clear sunny sky in June or July ....WHAT'S THE BEST TIME OF THE YEAR TO VISIT MALDIVES?Is August a good month to visit Maldives? Is it humid and rainy?

2. How is Global Warming? Only because the emission of carbon dioxide and methane?

The average climate temperature is controlled by three factors. The sun is the prime factor having more than 90% control. Geothermal and hydrothermal sources are the second source of heat about 9%. atmospheric humidity (water vapor) is the 3rd factor in that high levels of humidity can retain heat through the night allowing for more heating the next day and again ad infinium until it either rains releasing it or clouds form allowing the humidity to cool and sublime out of the atmosphere as dew or rain. These are the only sources that can warm the earth as co2 is a neutral factor which can only hold or retain heat when humidity is high. Thus it is still humidity that holds in the heat not cot no matter what a bunch of religious freaks think.

3. What do you know at 70 that you wish youu2019d known at 60?

I have not yet reached 70, (I am 64), but I've picked up some tidbits in the last 4 years that tell me I've still got plenty of learning to do. Do not stop learning! Just this morning I saw some snow come down which was tiny bits of clear ice. Not hail or snowflakes, but looked and sounded like rain yet was clear angular chunks of ice. I did not know! I would still like to know how much a typical raindrop weighs!

4. What is the best way to sow grass seed in high rainfall areas?

You are answering every question except the one I am askingBecause everything you've said and the pictures you've posted lead me to believe that the problem you are having is not because of high rainfall in your area.Your big issue is establishing grass in that section around your house. You've managed to get the grass seed to establish in other areas of your lawn, that receive the same amount of rain, even though you planted a grass seed that does not typically do well in your climate and you planted it at the peak of summer which is the worst time to plant a cool season lawn.The issue you are having is clearly something localized to the area you are having problems with. People manage to grow grass successfully in areas with as much rain as you get. It's not like Georgia is devoid of lawns and you are the first one to ever try and plant grass seed nor the first one to try and plant KBG. I get a similar amount of rain and people in my area do not have problems getting grass seed to grow.The house has been here since 1941 with no gutters. I added gutters after I saw that grass would not grow with the flow from the roof.This explains a lot! All the problems you ascribe to heavy rain fall... leaching of nitrogen, calcium and other nutrients, compaction, etc.... multiply them many times over. That's what is happening around the perimeter of your home.To give you an idea why... assume you had a 20' x 50' home with the roof covering 1,000 sq ft of ground. You would have 140 linear feet perimeter. If it rained 1" you would have close to 625 gallons of water falling on your roof. That water sheets off your roof and lets assume sprays over a 1' wide path along the perimeter of your home (assume it's equal to make the math easier, some parts may get more or less depending on your roof design.) 625 gallons divided by the 140 sq ft perimeter means you have about 4.5 gallons of water per square foot hitting the soil around your house with every inch of rain.In the open areas of your yard the soil will only get about 0.625 gallons of water per inch of rain. The area around your home is getting about 7 times that and it's not simply little droplets it's pouring on it. The force of the water likely severely compacted your clay soil around your house.Without knowing the design of your roof and how far the water was actually coming down from the roof the numbers are not accurate and I do not mean them to be anything other than an example to illustrate that without gutters the soil around your home received considerably more rain per square foot than other areas of your lawn.It is clear from the photos that the soil around your house is very poorly draining resulting in a lot of standing water when it rains. You need to address those drainage issues. Not only to get grass to grow but because it's a nuisance and potentially damaging to the house structure to have that much water pooling there.Even if someone were to answer your question regarding keeping the seed in place during heavy downpours when the area gets flooded, the issues with the poor drainage would lead to other problems once your lawn was established. You need to deal with the drainage and soil issues if you want to have healthy lawn growing in those areas. Even if you were to put sod down the excessive water and poor draining soil would eventually damage it.In addition to dealing with the drainage issues I would recommend sending a sample of soil from that area to your local extension office for analysis because there are probably significant deficiencies in the soil due to how much water it received compared to other parts of your yard.This is the only answer I can come up with (other than to plant swamp grass) as far as why you are grass is not growing in that area based on the information you provided. Other issues such as too much sun and heat (plus what is reflected from the white siding). It's interesting that the pictures you took show that there is no grass in the areas of your houses shadow. That could be a factor but poor drainage is a big problem.You do not seem to be happy with it so maybe someone else will come along and provide a different answer.