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Pace yourself. Letting a joke about a mid October freeze get to you will have you getting multiple stents before the solstice.

I’m onto worrying about the well. Maybe if you left some trees up some of the water would get absorbed.

You almost wonder if this weekend is the coldest of the winter.

Yeah all of the ens are prettly much devoid of cold for the rest of the month.

45.6° -RA 0.15” so far

First ripe pawpaw from my trees. We did it.

MOS is pretty cold Sun AM. Seems a little overdone in spots.

To be fair it’s a basic strong nino forecast. Compare this year’s to 23-24 and 15-16 and then what the actuals were.

That would be about as fun as it gets up here for wind minus a 38 or 1950. LLJ ripped due west from coastal NH into VT

Yeah breezy morning. The chickens are molting hard and are not pleased.

d10…what could go wrong?

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.