gravitylover

Yay for me being the flakey one

No more frost damnit! You stop talking like that... Are you seeing t-storms? It's brightening up down here but still drizzling. 1.5" since yesterday morning. It's soggy.

1.3" including the rain today since midnight.

Ahh but will Sunday be nice too? We're going to need it because it will take the nice day Saturday to dry things out so we can do outside stuff Sunday.

^^ Damn It's not very springy out there today, not even a little bit. Yuck. Again...

My goodness the air quality is soooo good now, pretty much the only good thing to have come from us all being (mostly) home for the last 6 weeks. I really want a string of nice days right now...

Yeah right, even on the nice days there's still a crispness that hints of winter. We've really only had 2 or 3 days where the air was warm and 'soft'.

April has been 45* and dreary for years now. This is useless weather for being outdoors. At least I'm north and at reasonable elevation for around here, my average has bumped to about 50" this century. I also have an easy shot to get further north when the weather is questionable.

That's better than 7 months of April

Every time somebody mentions WW the memories of some wonderful "debates" with DT come flooding back. He was quite the argumentative little firecracker 20 years ago... Ahh yes weather banter. Another 40 degree dreary day on tap. Yay!

Are you sure you don't have some Vulcan in your DNA? Too much logic... Raised boxes should be able to have a tarp thrown over them on the cold nights right? Yeah soil temps are mid 40's, I didn't know about additional vulnerabilities due to that. Learning learning Cold weather resistant always goes in first, lettuce and spinach, stuff like that.

The post that @bluewave just made sure does look wet and cold for at least the next few weeks, this is no good for getting plants in the ground so we can have fresh veggies sooner rather than later. I think that when it dries out a bit tomorrow I'm just going to go ahead and get the less vulnerable plants in otherwise it's July before the garden is generating any real food. The trees and many plants seem to be waking up very slowly after what looked like it was going to be one of the earliest leaf outs in a long, long time but then they just stopped, in the last two days they seem to be trying to spit leaves out but it's been painfully slow to watch. Fingers crossed that we don't get another hard frost. What say ye oh wise gardeners and food producers?

I remember that distinctly, thanks for reminding me. The night before in Ithaca was one of the top 3 ever Grateful Dead shows, when the crowd entered the arena it was warm(ish) and nice, when they left it was snowing hard and there was a few inches on the ground. There were some surprised people coming out in shorts and t-shirts into a full fledged winter storm.

And now it's nice. Sorta. Not looking forward to a washout tomorrow. Being on an anti platelet med kinda sux, I bruise so easily now it's crazy. My hand got jacked into the handlebar when I was riding yesterday and now it's all bruised and swollen, I can't grab things and hold them tight and even the steering wheel and shifter were tough to hold normally. Good thing I don't have to drive much right now I guess.

Fake flurries falling on a fake cold day in late April. Yup. Flurries are more like light snow now.

It's flurrying here now

It bottomed at 30 but the spring sun is warming up the front of the house quickly now. You know when things warm quickly and pop and crackle? Yeah that's what it's doing.

Not again... Wasn't two wet years in a row enough? The caveat being that much of the warmth was due to high minimums not high maximums.

I remember it happening with some frequency when I was a kid growing up in Oceanside. I've seen some outrageous hail in the Rockies and in Flagstaff AZ.

The first line was thunder, lightning and heavy rain for less than ten minutes, the second was 3 minutes of heavy rain with pea sized hail for a minute. There hasn't been any wind which is nice and only .4" of rain. I'll take it, just enough to keep things moist but not enough to make it muddy.

OMG the birds wrecked my berry crop last year and those damned furry critters ruined half the tomatoes. I think I need to replace one of the blueberry bushes, it doesn't seem to be coming back, just laid in 36 seedling pots in the house but I think I'm going to get another tray. Tomatoes this year will be in an upside down hanging thing, no bugs and the furry critters seem to ignore those. I need to make some wooden boxes for potatoes, I want to do a couple of different types this year. Not sure what to do about corn because that's another one the chipmunks seemed to like.

Go on rub it in

I deal with outside and do all gardening and overall facilities upkeep and maintenance, my wife feeds us. I like to eat so...

Heheh my problem is with much smaller critters but our 2 dogs may have solved that, they caught a couple of moles over the last few months so maybe this year I don't have half eaten heads of lettuce problems.

I think this may end up being the year our property ends up looking more parklike than ever before but I'm going to try to reduce the amount of grass to mow. It seems like 5 days a week we're doing hours of yardwork. We have some good sized projects ahead. If it comes together right we'll have a food producing setup like nobody else in the 'hood.