Weather Where You Are

[flowerbug]

Me, too, 60 on Sunday. Gotta get out mid morning with the tractor to do some work on the fence neroxt to the lawn. They guy that Used to be a nice neighbor has gotten mean or crazy (disagreement about the Wind Farm, he wants it, I don't). He used to get his property spotless, but I think He bought the really big dumpster and parked a non working Van in back of it. He used to use it as a driveway, so I tried to keep the fenceline clear, but I am really tired of looking at it. When he dropped a tree ~5 years ago it collapsed 1/2 of what what left of the cattle fencing. Since I used the remainder of the leftover roll from 2008 for gardening (that I had kept housed, so it's in great condition) I have enough to complete the fencing that it gone. What DH and I intend to do this morning is to use the bucket and straps (for hauling) to lift up the old fencing to it's proper level, then I will step on and stretch out what collapsed. After that I should be able to attach it to the existing fenceposts. I took the time a few weeks ago to cut off the flexible metal that you use to hook the cattle fencing to a metal fence post. Each one had 4 of these, and I carefully cleaned them up and put them in my recycle metal trash can in the tool shed. I will use blue and orange baling twine to secure them to the fenceposts bc it's super easy to work with, and I have a lot of experience gardening with fenceposts and securing with baling twine. I would like to start planting peas this next week on my side of the fence. Later this year I will make decisions of what perennials can go in to grow up and hide his junk, which now includes broken windows. On the SE corner I have to kill off poison ivy. I intend to spray it, maybe tomorrow and once I see it's dead, I will cut cardboard and dump compost on top of it. One area of the fencing next to the street got blasted with D-2 last summer and it's still clear. I need to feed the horses now and check out how much leftover snow may b e melting. Btw, has anybody grown pussywillows?

i don't know if it makes any sense to spray herbicides on dormant plants...

never grown pussywillows here.

 

[digitS']

Our afternoon temperature yesterday was 60°f and a tie with the record high.

Last year, I felt sorry for the robins because there was so much snow on the ground during March.

Today, windy and 30's. Clouds are moving in and I think it will rain.

Steve

 

[Prairie Rose]

60 tomorrow, partly cloudy and highs from 50-60 all week, and nightly lows above freezing. Still more than a bit early to start chanting spring spring spring, but I'm feeling it. This should really wake the grass and trees greening up here, and hopefully thaw more than the top inch or two of soil so all the water has somewhere to drain to. I'm so tired of dealing with mud! I am hoping a few days this week are windy, and no rain in the 10 day forecast.

My next day off I am going to sow grass seed and heavily straw a few high traffic areas that have gone bare this winter.

Until then I am going to push through finishing my winter quilt project, I want to get it done by the end of march so I can focus on gardening as soon as the soil warms up enough to plant!

 

[valley ranch]

We got some snow ~ now it's warming up 60s even low 70s we'll see ```

 

[ducks4you]

@Prairie Rose , Please post a picture of your finished quilt!! I've done some utilitarian quilting, taking a 9 yard, 45 inch wide fleece that looked like a candy striped Hudson Bay Blanket and quilted with the back sides of 3 youth blankets which were sitting in the closet gathering dust. DH's is yellow and I finished it with red yard whip stitched on the ends.

 

[ninnymary]

73° today. Gotta love it. Will probably plant some of my tomatoe starts this weekend.

Mary

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

They turned on the golf course sprinklers yesterday. Its been parched and if Northern CA is talking drought, then Southern OR will be too. Supposed to be 68 today, but a chance of rain this coming Fri nite and Saturday. Lets hope so...

 

[Prairie Rose]

The past few days have been gorgeous, for the most part. Almost 60 and breezy. The ground is still super soft, but I was able to get out and work today. The rain starts monday though....

 

[digitS']

They turned on the golf course sprinklers yesterday ...

We finally had a rain. It felt like a fair amount but was only 1/4". Anything will help and I'm sure that this added to the snowpack at just a little higher elevation.

Fortunately, January was a wet month but because it was so unseasonably warm, the snow came and went quickly down here. February was dry with only about half of the 1 1/2" of normal precipitation.

Because of more normal temperatures and because plants aren't really growing, the soil wasn't drying out until recently - with waaay too much wind. If'n the grass wants to start growing, there is now a little surface moisture.

I have one rhubarb leaf, that only someone with experience could identify as a rhubarb leaf. Besides this crumbled up red something, there are bumps, here and there. It's been like that for several weeks. Chives are showing more growth - skinny little green things. The daffodil plants look better but freezing every morning with a high about 15°f above frozen isn't likely to do much for them. Hopefully, we are out of the windy 🌬 weeks.

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

My tulips are popping up. I'll have to go take a look at my rhubarb, but suspect they are still under snow. My garden is still white.