mattie g

My 4-year-old and I took care of this yesterday. She's an awesome gardener! My 9-year-old and I have always done the same, but she was playing with friends and I needed something to keep the little one occupied. We planted buttercrunch lettuce, sugar snap peas, and a sprinkle or two of parsley. I also threw some mache seed down in the bed that will host tomatoes. I figure I've got a good 5 weeks until I plant tomatoes, so the mache can take hold while the tomatoes are indoors and as shortly after they get transplanted.

Warm-season crops like tomatoes and peppers can't be planted before the end of April, if even that early. You're just asking for all your hard work to go down the drain if an even relatively benign cold snap hits in the middle of the month. Other things like broccoli, lettuce, and peas are colder-weather crops and can easily handle an early-season frost / freeze or two.

Potted up all but the broccoli this past Sunday - everything went into 7 oz cups. Had to make the difficult decision to cull about half of the jalapenos and tomatoes, but kept all of the basil. Everyone seems to be happy so far. Will pot up one more time (Solo cups) before planting. I'm guessing I'll do that in about two weeks, with an eye to begin hardening off around the third or fourth week of April, and planting to follow a week later. I really have to get some lettuce seeds into the ground...

I haven't seen a signature on this site since I first signed up and set my settings to ignore all signatures. They're the worst.

11/30: T 12/8: T 1/3: 9.25" 1/7: 2.75" 1/16: 3.00" 1/20: T 1/28: 1.00" 2/13: 0.25" 3/13: 2.00" (based mostly on reports around me, but looked about right to my eye) Total as of 3/13: 18.25" This is likely to be my final tally in NE Burke, and I'm sure I missed a T or two. Not bad, not great...but not bad. I generally think that any time I get 20" spread over multiple events is a good year, so this fell just a little short.

MBY flipped to snow earlier than progged, but we didn’t get as much of the heavies that were expected. That’s what hurt us - not boundary temps or whatever. Not everything can be blamed on warmer background state.

Same here in Burke. The flakes are floating around in the wind, too. Not wet, sploshy flakes.

Almost all snow now. That was quick…

36 in Burke. Flipped to sleet maybe 10-15 minutes ago, and we now have flakes mixing in.

50F after a high of 63F. Eagerly awaiting my accumulating snow that’s set to begin in less than 10 hours.

I was going to mention that I wasn't picking on you. It was just the latest reply to that poster and I couldn't help but chime in!

Put the poster on Ignore or just stop responding to the posts. It's just a sad attempt at getting attention. I feel like I say this every year multiple times, but people can't stop.

I can

I thought that said something different.

This is a completely different situation than worrying about warm air intruding in the mid levels. The warm air is on its way out at this time, and every successive sounding shows the 850 temps dropping.

I haven't been paying attention at all, so this is a nice surprise. As mentioned above...it's going to be cold anyway, so might as well get some snow with it before we spring up next week! To all my fellow beer geeks, this is looking like a nice reason to crack a big barrel-aged stout or two early on in the day...

Warm layer introduced from the north?

Wait...we haven't even talked about the Welsh!

Actually..."brogue" was originally used to refer to Irish accent, while "burr" was used to refer to a Scottish one! "Lilt" is in reference to a kind of Irish singing, but has been applied to an Irish accent that is more flowing, kind of like a soft gliding sound. That said, using "brogue" for both Irish and Scottish is pretty much OK!

That's an AWFUL decision on your co-worker's part! Thursdays are the most appropriate days for Happy Hours, though. As the PM for my team, I'm trying to get team get-togethers back on the calendar. It's tough with everyone working a flexible hybrid schedule and lots of folks being well west of the city, but I'm going to see if we can do regular (every month or so) Thursday Happy Hours and quarterly Friday half-day in-office days followed by a big team lunch and everyone free to finish their days at home. The ability to telework is fantastic, and in my field (IT) it's a necessity to attract and keep talent...but man, it's hard to promote the team culture that we had for years prior to COVID and remote work!

It's not like where you live is all that much different than where many of the rest of us live. You drop 19 degrees, we drop 19 degrees. It's just that you might start a few degrees lower than others and the front comes through your area earlier than it does farther south and east.

St. Patrick's Day = Amateur Day Ocean City = Shitshow Town It's going to be awful down there.

You can't take one event in isolation and use it as a test case.

The wind s annoying, but I was just outside and thought to myself that I don't want to go back to cold. I know it won't, but at this point I just want it to stay mild/warm.