Author Topic: Guess what? (Read 1795 times)

longwinters · « **on:** March 27, 2013, 12:33:45 PM »

The SNOW IS MELTING....THE SNOW IS MELTING....

Long

AtlLaw · « **Reply #1 on:** March 27, 2013, 12:41:53 PM »

THE SNOW IS MELTING!!!

oboyoboyoboyoboy!!!! The snow is ... uh, ... $:-\$ snow?

Ranger99 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 27, 2013, 03:25:22 PM »

i'll take your word for it as i
rest my worn self from sweating
and mowing today

Oldshooter · « **Reply #3 on:** March 27, 2013, 04:37:18 PM »

Snow hasn't melted here in 17 years. $:-\$

blind ear · « **Reply #4 on:** March 27, 2013, 09:36:10 PM »

Quote from: Oldshooter on March 27, 2013, 04:37:18 PM

Snow hasn't melted here in 17 years. $:-\$

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You must not live too far south in Texas, I think it snowed in New Orleans this year. ear

Oldshooter · « **Reply #5 on:** March 27, 2013, 09:44:35 PM »

you know after I posted that I was thinking "It has to have since then" But I cant remember it. .........but then..... $:-\$

I know it didn't last year, or the one before, or did I forget I forgot.

blind ear · « **Reply #6 on:** March 27, 2013, 11:03:16 PM »

my motto is "I am probably wrong, I usually am". ear

longwinters · « **Reply #7 on:** March 28, 2013, 04:35:22 PM »

It was up to 42 today. The highschool kids were wearing shorts and I saw some on bikes and motorcycles.....only 18" of snow to melt yet.

Long

Oldshooter · « **Reply #8 on:** March 28, 2013, 04:41:26 PM »

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highschool kids were wearing shorts

dont mean much here, they wear shorts here in 40 degree weather and flippy floppys. But they do wear a coat/hoodie with the flippy floppies.

Everything is busting out green here, blossoms on the pear trees, fig trees getting first leaves. gonna be 75 here tomorrow. I'll share some spring with ya'll if you share some cool weather with me in July!

Ranger99 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 28, 2013, 05:20:22 PM »

never have understood the cold-weather
shorts and sandals with a heavy coat.
it makes as much sense as a backwards
hat, or taking a shower in a rainsuit and
rubber boots.

blind ear · « **Reply #10 on:** March 28, 2013, 05:56:16 PM »

I could handle the rain or cold if I just could get around the allergy bloom. Keeps me in the house about 3 1/2 months a year. ah chuuuuw!

ear

Ranger99 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 28, 2013, 06:00:55 PM »

get a neti pot sir.
i don't know how i'd make
it without it.

blind ear · « **Reply #12 on:** March 28, 2013, 08:41:23 PM »

Quote from: Ranger99 on March 28, 2013, 06:00:55 PM

get a neti pot sir.
i don't know how i'd make
it without it.

Have one sir. Doesn't help with allergies. Cromalin does some good along with Claratin and Zyrtec. Wear a dust mask when outside but still gets to the eyes. Only really effective thing is to stay in the house. I do spend a lot of time wearing a dust mask and over medicating. ear

longwinters · « **Reply #13 on:** March 29, 2013, 05:39:48 PM »

I get allergies in spring. Tests show I am allergic to grass, trees, and weeds.....and the specialist said I need to avoid them. I live in the U.P! There is nothing but grass, trees and weeds. Sheech!

Long

Ranger99 · « **Reply #14 on:** March 29, 2013, 05:54:45 PM »

i genuinely feel bad for yall.
i still get a bout of the sneezes,
but i don't get sickness from
allergens anymore since i've
been flushing my sinuses this
last couple of years. a week
ago, when i came in from mowing
at the farm, i was so coated in
yellow pollen, my navy blue coveralls
didn't look navy, and my red tractor
was orange. by all rights, i should
have been laid up a week with fever
and sneezes and chills. i believe
regular vitamins and washing the
trash out of my nose has helped
me stay well ( now that i wrote this,
i'll probably wake up sick tomorrow)

Oldshooter · « **Reply #15 on:** March 30, 2013, 01:39:40 AM »

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and my red tractor
was orange.

Why I bought an orange tractor!

longwinters · « **Reply #16 on:** April 01, 2013, 11:42:19 AM »

4" more snow this weekend and my onions are coming in a week or so. The frost is still about 2 ft deep in the yard. Not good. Typically I can put onions in by mid April.

Long

blind ear · « **Reply #17 on:** April 02, 2013, 01:52:02 AM »

Geeeeez Longwinters, global warming is killing you guys in the up. When you get warm enough to garden I will be sweating my electricity bill.

ear

Oldshooter · « **Reply #18 on:** April 02, 2013, 02:21:26 AM »

Quote from: blind ear on April 02, 2013, 01:52:02 AM

Geeeeez Longwinters, global warming is killing you guys in the up. When you get warm enough to garden I will be sweating my electricity bill. ear

I resemble that remark ear!

longwinters · « **Reply #19 on:** April 03, 2013, 01:01:05 PM »

Yup, and they're talking 5-9" of snow this Saturday. Its like everyday is winter and Christmas never comes.....

Long

longwinters · « **Reply #20 on:** April 13, 2013, 02:10:28 PM »

6" of snow Thurs, 2" Fri and another inch today.....Everything was just getting melted and then the blasted robins came back. When ever the robins come back we always get 2 snows. So one more to go.

But I did start some flowers/seed today and next weekend I will start my tomato and pepper plants. Another week or so, if the snow stays away, I'll start my onions outside....although may have to put a dome over them for a couple weeks.

I have a love/hate relationship with robins.

Long

Bob Riebe · « **Reply #21 on:** April 19, 2013, 11:04:49 AM »

We had about a foot of snow yesterday.
The belt on the snow-blower is shot so I ended up shoveling, at 12:30 AM everything, including the thirty by thirty parking area, with a shovel.
I was glad I left the parking area till last, as when I was done with that, I had to go do the walking areas over, there was another three inches of new snow after the first shoveling.
Fortunately it quit snowing just before I went in.

I thought this might be the first winter in almost thirty years I would not have to do it by hand even once. Ususally the darn thing has a glitch early in the year.
Oh well there is always next year.

One odd thing, when I went out last night, a bird flew by during the snowstorm.

longwinters · « **Reply #22 on:** April 20, 2013, 04:28:12 AM »

I don't care if it did snow again last night, I'm starting my tomato and pepper plants today.

Long

cjclemens · « **Reply #23 on:** April 21, 2013, 05:50:53 PM »

we had round about 4" of rain last week and we're lookin at another 2-3" this week. Plus the low temps are back down in the mid 30's. I was hoping to have some work done out in the garden by now, but mother nature has other plans. My tomatoes are still inside, but they're all 4-6" tall and ready to go out. I just hope it warms up this weekend and dries out!

ironglow · « **Reply #24 on:** April 21, 2013, 05:56:38 PM »

Here in the "Snow Belt" region, off the Great Lakes, we don't figure snow is any good until it is at least 2 years old..

Ranger99 · « **Reply #25 on:** April 21, 2013, 06:00:42 PM »

feel bad for yall.
my tomatoes that made it are 12-15"
tall now, some i planted as a contingency
are 8" tall. my peppers haven't fared too
well. most puked like the first tomatoes
did, the others 8" tall. onions are about
18" , squash is just jumping up (we'll see)
and about 4" . no okra up yet. i staggered
planting by about 2 weeks.

i hope all that cold is ok for you. of course,
yall get to laugh here in about 2-3 months.
i can handle that better than the ice

good luck

longwinters · « **Reply #26 on:** April 22, 2013, 03:51:04 PM »

Well, I don't care if there is some snow in my yard yet. The raised beds are thawed out and so I tilled them up tonight. Figured all the egg shells, coffee grounds etc that I've tossed in them all winter needed to get worked in. The onions are planted, about 40-50 of them, with a clear drop cloth over the top to help keep them a bit warmer. But I've had the plants for 2 weeks (I get them from Dixon Dale Farms in TX) and figured I should get them in the ground as soon as I could.. You get 50-70 plants for 11.00 shipped. Last year I bought onion sets locally and they were a few dollars cheaper for about the same amount, but the onions were not nearly as big as the ones from Dixon Dale were. So This year I will find out if it was just a fluke or if the Dixon Dale onion plants really are that much better. Plus they have great variety. Around here you can get white onions or red onions.

Long