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It's got that raw mid March feeling out there today. It's kind of like deja vu... Is it over yet?

This wind is drying things out quickly. Yay.

Please, no snow or cold this weekend.

At least now with everything leafing out it will draw the surface water down somewhat.  

14 hours ago, rclab said:

If you have photos of that set up I would really enjoy seeing them. As always .....

I would too, unfortunately pretty much everything I kept at my parents house for storage when I moved out was ruined or burned in a fire about 20 years ago. Now it's just a big table in the basement with stuff piled 2 feet deep on it

When I was a teenager I had a 5 x 18' table set up with a three layer deep HO train set that went through 2 mountain ranges and three towns. I could run two 5 or 6 car trains at the same time. There was also over 200 feet of slot car tracks that went up to five layers high at points wrapping through the towns and mountains. I used to run two cars and two trains at the same time with a controller in each hand, it was quite a trick to run for any length of time without a major collision. I wish my house now was big enough to do something like that.

Yay for me being the flakey one 

3 hours ago, Juliancolton said:

0.79" here so far. Looks like another rainy afternoon on top.

The models have been frigid in the long-range for multiple cycles now. The GFS op has three or four shots of sub-528 dm thicknesses starting around D8, and the EPS/GEFS certainly support that kind of pattern. Frost danger through mid-month at least.

No more frost damnit! You stop talking like that... Are you seeing t-storms? It's brightening up down here but still drizzling.

1.5" since yesterday morning. It's soggy.

Ahh but will Sunday be nice too? We're going to need it because it will take the nice day Saturday to dry things out so we can do outside stuff Sunday.

^^ Damn

It's not very springy out there today, not even a little bit. Yuck. Again...

Yeah right, even on the nice days there's still a crispness that hints of winter. We've really only had 2 or 3 days where the air was warm and 'soft'.

5 hours ago, forkyfork said:

  

you snow people are mentally ill

 

 

April has been 45* and dreary for years now. This is useless weather for being outdoors.

2 hours ago, SnoSki14 said:

And they live in the NYC metro...not exactly a snow haven.

At least I'm north and at reasonable elevation for around here, my average has bumped to about 50" this century. I also have an easy shot to get further north when the weather is questionable. 

Every time somebody mentions WW the memories of some wonderful "debates" with DT come flooding back. He was quite the argumentative little firecracker 20 years ago... 

Ahh yes weather banter. Another 40 degree dreary day on tap. Yay! 

11 hours ago, Juliancolton said:

If memory serves, you were rarin' to get plants in the ground about 6 weeks ago. Glad I talked you out of it.  

I would absolutely not bet on no more frosts, or even freezes. Like you mention, that mean trough in the east is here to stay for two weeks or more based on the morning's ensemble guidance. Most interior spots are still yet to reach average last frost date (though maybe you're right on the cusp down there?), so a solidly BN pattern when climo isn't really that warm is a recipe for disaster for all but the hardiest food producing plants.

Even if you managed to avoid a killing frost, cold soil causes myriad and manifest problems that would likely stunt growth for weeks. The soil temp here is 42F, so maybe mid-40s by you. Nitrogen fixation close to nil, high risk of root rot, high susceptibility to bacterial and viral infections... just not worth it. You'd end up farther ahead by waiting for more conducive wx.

Are you sure you don't have some Vulcan in your DNA? Too much logic... Raised boxes should be able to have a tarp thrown over them on the cold nights right? Yeah soil temps are mid 40's, I didn't know about additional vulnerabilities due to that. Learning learning

11 hours ago, rclab said:

A field of iceberg lettuce? 

Cold weather resistant always goes in first, lettuce and spinach, stuff like that. 

The post that @bluewave just made sure does look wet and cold for at least  the next few weeks, this is no good for getting plants in the ground so we can have fresh veggies sooner rather than later. I think that when it dries out a bit tomorrow I'm just going to go ahead and get the less vulnerable plants in otherwise it's July before the garden is generating any real food. The trees and many plants seem to be waking up very slowly after what looked like it was going to be one of the earliest leaf outs in a long, long time but then they just stopped, in the last two days they seem to be trying to spit leaves out but it's been painfully slow to watch. Fingers crossed that we don't get another hard frost. What say ye oh wise gardeners and food producers?

And now it's nice. Sorta. Not looking forward to a washout tomorrow. Being on an anti platelet med kinda sux, I bruise so easily now it's crazy. My hand got jacked into the handlebar when I was riding yesterday and now it's all bruised and swollen, I can't grab things and hold them tight and even the steering wheel and shifter were tough to hold normally. Good thing I don't have to drive much right now I guess. 

Fake flurries falling on a fake cold day in late April. Yup.

Flurries are more like light snow now.

OMG the birds wrecked my berry crop last year and those damned furry critters ruined half the tomatoes. I think I need to replace one of the blueberry bushes, it doesn't seem to be coming back, just laid in 36 seedling pots in the house but I think I'm going to get another tray. Tomatoes this year will be in an upside down hanging thing, no bugs and the furry critters seem to ignore those. I need to make some wooden boxes for potatoes, I want to do a couple of different types this year. Not sure what to do about corn because that's another one the chipmunks seemed to like.

I deal with outside and do all gardening and overall facilities upkeep and maintenance, my wife feeds us. I like to eat so...

Heheh my problem is with much smaller critters but our 2 dogs may have solved that, they caught a couple of moles over the last few months so maybe this year I don't have half eaten heads of lettuce problems.

I think this may end up being the year our property ends up looking more parklike than ever before but I'm going to try to reduce the amount of grass to mow. It seems like 5 days a week we're doing hours of yardwork. We have some good sized projects ahead. If it comes together right we'll have a food producing setup like nobody else in the 'hood.

Yup third below 30 here too, not what I expected out of April this year that's for sure.

1 hour ago, Rjay said:

A lot better than I was.   Still really fatigued though.  

Tired is better than the alternative   Glad you're recovering and feeling better!

Light white rain here

The whole Taconics region of Dutchess and Columbia Counties is pretty cool. The depressed nature is somewhat offputting but the towns are cozy and useful. The mountains and forests are awesome though and for all the years I've been exploring them I'm not even halfway through the spots I want to check out.

37* and dreary. Ick. 

35° and pretty heavy... rain