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56° and the sun is finally winning out. Should creep near 60°. It’s probably a good day to clean out the pellet stove pipe.

Bahhhboom

Raw raw sis boom bah

He actually calls his baby Niño.

Cool and raw. 45° 0.63” total. Underwhelming.

I found the thumbnail to the 11/27/1950 edition of the Concord Monitor

He’s lump

He’s moving in mysterious ways again

When I moved here I started eating a lot of peaches

Sure…we’re stepping down. I get it. But an early CAA freeze with a period of warmth following is just a bit of a bummer for me with my late ripening stragglers. If I can steal another week of ripening time by having a 33° min versus a breezy 28° I’ll take the 33°. There’s plenty of winter and cold to come. Reminder to everyone…I don’t control the weather despite what I wish for.

I do. They’re growing pawpaws up into Minny and Quebec. But a lot of growers are having ripening issues due to some flower bud damage from the late April cold shot that came after a few days of 70s to 80. And there’s a lot of solid peach options for the north now…cultivars that can handle -20s in winter that are also late blooming so they can avoid late spring freezes. They’re just not the ones you’d expect to see at a grocery store. Contender, Challenger, Intrepid, PF-24, Siberian C…heck even Redhaven is decent.

Wish the hard freeze would hold off longer. I still have a couple of unripe fruit on the trees. Under -12C 850s on the gfs. Terrible.

Yeah…good chance for the first CAA mangled flakes this weekend here. Time to get some wood pellets.