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Had the pellet stove on in the living room last night. A toasty 80F in there and 75F in the bedrooms when I woke up...even with a low setting. Sometimes you have to make your own torch.

Found this… https://ecoipm.org/2017/03/23/dont-fret-over-a-few-dead-bees/

I assume these are all males that mated and died? But all in the same spot?

Anyone know anything about carpenter bee behavior? There was one flying around my nesting boxes this afternoon that I was trying to keep out. They normally burrow up near the roof of the coop every year. Anyway, I went outside this evening to clean the boxes and noticed 9 dead carpenter bees on the ground below that spot that weren’t there earlier. Is it likely that the other bee pulled them out of the top of the coop and that they were already dead while overwintering? I’ve never seen that before.

Lots of trees starting to open. Pawpaws are slow, but they’re always last. Got 2 bare root apple trees planted today. Got roasted while doing it too.

69°…4° warmer than 980’ Tolland!

Already 51° off of 32.9°.

A couple degrees below your 59.7° It was a great day though. Of course we haven’t had much in the way of heat so it feels better than it should.

Up to 56.8F here and thankfully clouds saved us from hitting freezing. It was 34F at 4am, but then slowly crept back up. Winner of an afternoon though. We take.

Nice. You got out of Tolland today to enjoy 60s.

It happens this time of year. I remember many times having the RH dip into the single numbers.

Furnace croaked a few months ago…right after I filled the tank. I’m looking to replace it this summer, but with the oil prices I’m in no hurry.

I’ve got my own little food forest going in the corner of the yard by the chooks and the mini pawpaw orchard. I’ve been wanting to cover that area of grass up with a nice layer of wood chips like in the run, but I haven’t gone there yet. We have a lot of clover there so I just let it keep fixing nitrogen to the N happy pawpaws. I have a honeycrisp planted and a couple more bare root apple trees on the way. I’m also experimenting with grafting a bunch of different varieties of apples onto antonovka rootstock. My grapes trellising over the fence of the run will be going on year 2 and I have 4 honeyberry bushes to plant. That doesn’t include the crabapple, peach, and 2 pear trees we already had when we moved there. I’m not at James Prigioni’s level, but I do like the concept of getting functional use out of your property for you and the wildlife versus a synthetic, pesticide/herbicide laden lawn that isn’t natural and isn’t self sustaining. Suburban Americans in the 50s and 60s decided it was important to have a lush, grass-only lawn. I try to encourage people I know away from that. I don’t mean to poo all over frankenstein lawns in the lawn thread, but it’s just my thoughts on the subject.

Congrats. Not here. Getting taint backing in from Maine.

Today may be worse than yesterday cold wise.

I purposely grew my lawn long one time and my neighbor came into my yard and mowed it. lol He likes to scalp his yard, but they’re worried about Lyme over there. I know his wife and one of the kids have it.

Yeah but you do that in July

I guess, but sensible weather matters. All I said was that it was more wintry 35 years ago. 10-20" with afternoon temps of 32-34F with +SN is a little more wintry than well into the 40s with abundant sun.

ORH,1987-04-28 10:00,METAR KORH 281000Z 10009KT 20SM SCT012 BKN023 OVC070 01/00 A3004 RMK PK WND SLP180 T00110000 50000 ORH,1987-04-28 11:00,METAR KORH 281100Z 10011KT 15SM -SN OVC012 01/M01 A3004 RMK PK WND /SB35MYL SA 1051 AMOS 39/28/0503/M PK WND 03 000 SLP180 T00111006 50000 ORH,1987-04-28 12:00,METAR KORH 281200Z 10011KT 10SM -SN OVC010 01/01 A3003 RMK /VSBY 2V3MYL SP 1230 AMOS 38/27/3100/M PK WND 03 000 SLP173 T00110006 50000 ORH,1987-04-28 13:00,METAR KORH 281300Z 08006KT 1SM -SN OVC006 02/02 A3002 RMK /SB20 SLP173 T00170017 50000 ORH,1987-04-28 14:00,METAR KORH 281400Z 08013KT 1SM -RASN FG OVC/// OVC005 02/02 A3000 RMK PK WND /F2 /RB30MYL SP 1412 AMOS 46/33/1200/M PK WND 00 000 SLP171 P0002 T00170017 50000 ORH,1987-04-28 15:00,METAR KORH 281500Z 09012KT 3/4SM -RASN FG OVC/// OVC004 02/02 A2999 RMK /VSBY 1/2V1 /F3 /80805 17// SLP168 P0003 T00170017 50005 ORH,1987-04-28 16:00,METAR KORH 281600Z 08008KT 1/2SM -RASN FG OVC002 01/01 A2999 RMK /VSBY 1/4V3/4MYL SA 1553 AMOS 58/38/2100/M PK WND 03 000 SLP168 P0006 T00110011 50003 ORH,1987-04-28 17:00,METAR KORH 281700Z 07007KT 1/16SM -RASN FG OVC002 01/01 A2998 RMK SLP165 P0005 T00060006 50007 ORH,1987-04-28 18:00,METAR KORH 281800Z 07007KT 1/16SM -SN FG OVC001 00/M01 A2995 RMK / 81527 90402 (R ORH,1987-04-28 19:00,METAR KORH 281900Z 04006KT 1/16SM SN FG OVC001 00/M01 A2995 RMK / SNOINCR 1/1/4 SLP149 P0012 T00001006 50007 ORH,1987-04-28 20:00,METAR KORH 282000Z 05008KT 1/16SM SN FG OVC001 00/M01 A2992 RMK / SNOINCR 1/2/5MYL SA 1952SA 1945 E60 BKN 45 77/39/2209/M PK WND 15 000 SLP138 P0014 T00001006 50012 ORH,1987-04-28 21:00,METAR KORH 282100Z 05008KT 1/16SM +SN FG OVC001 00/M01 A2989 RMK 0 /72045 90409 SNOINCR 3/6/9 SLP132 P0019 T00001006 ORH,1987-04-28 22:00,METAR KORH 282200Z 05010KT 1/16SM SN FG OVC001 M01/M01 A2989 RMK SNOINCR 1/7/10MYL SP 2211 AMOS 77/38/2409/M PK WND SLP132 P0012 T10061006 50000 ORH,1987-04-28 23:00,METAR KORH 282300Z 06008KT 3/8SM SN FG OVC001 M01/M01 A2988 RMK / S OCNLY S+ SNOINCR 2/9/12 SLP128 P0012 T10061011 50023 ORH,1987-04-29 00:00,METAR KORH 290000Z 05010KT 1/2SM -SN FG OVC003 M01/M01 A2987 RMK / VSBY 1/2V1MYL SP 2330 AMOS 75/38/2306/M PK WND 13 000 SLP121 P0004 T10061011 50000 ORH,1987-04-29 01:00,METAR KORH 290100Z 04007KT 1/2SM -SN FG OVC002 M01/M01 A2985 RMK SLP114 P0003 T10111011 50000 ORH,1987-04-29 02:00,METAR KORH 290200Z 03009KT 1SM -SN FG OVC003 M01/M01 A2981 RMK SLP104 P0002 T10061011 50000 ORH,1987-04-29 03:00,METAR KORH 290300Z 03009KT 6SM CLR M01/M01 A2978 RMK

Today is not quite as wintry as it was 35 years ago.

Loving the pellets right now. Just buying bags as needed.

Let it flower and drop seed first.