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Well . . . spring has basically sprung around here . . . sunny days in the 70's keepin' me runnin' wide open.
The days are already gettin' loger longer and pretty soon, when the time changes again, it won't get dark 'til around 8pm. By the end of May, it won't be dark 'til 9pm.
We might get one more little 'cold' snap . .. some people even think we'll have another freeze . . . but I don't 'feel' it. I see nothin' but blue skys and the occasional rainy days . . .
I'd love to have a drought, but that don't happen here too often . . .
ANYWAY . . . had several on-site jobs 'on-hold' waitin' for the weather-break . . . so here it is!!
Probably won't be in this 'ville too much for a while . . .
How 'bout you?? The weather helpin' you out??
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Buttercups and crocus are blooming here. Oh, a tiny iris - can't think of it's name. Bradford pears are trying, but not quite in full bloom yet.
I have tulips, muscari, hyacinth, iris, all sorts of spring bulbs coming up, but it will be a little bit before they bloom. The Dogwoods and Redbuds are budding, and when they bloom it's a sure sign warmth is not far.
I got outside Sat. and cleaned up some of last years skeletons from the gardens. There's all kinds of stuff coming up already. I've got my work cut out for me this year, as a local charity has asked me to allow them to use my backyard on their garden tour. There's noting formal or fancy about it, but I have a diverse array of gardens, since I couldn't pick just one kind.
Here we have what the natives call a Dogwood winter and a blackberry winter. Each year when these bloom we have an inevitable cold snap, thus the names. They always make me grumpy because without a doubt they will land on a weekend.
Our last frost date is April 15th here. So until then I clean and perpare and hold off planting anything not cold hardy, which isn't much.
I am really looking forward to Spring. Just makes me feel more alive when the hills are covered in green.
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I hear ya Sheila - 'sposed to be nice here the rest of week - fortunately I only gotta do 2 installs so far this week - keeping busy enuff with small stuff - -we got trees bloomin, spring peepers are going crazy (frogs) jonquills in the yard are out - -perfect camping weather - I love Spring!
-------------------- Carl Wood Olive Branch, Ms Posts: 1392 | From: Olive Branch,MS USA | Registered: Nov 1999
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I am loving the weather..best March I have ever experienced so far. Can't remember it ever being so hot.
Wish I had an outdoor install to do....
I could only wish for everyone from the north, except Mike Meyers of course, cuz he likes snow and ice , to have the good fortune to take some time off and spend some serious time just vegitating on a beach with a good book or ten and a libation of choice.
To, once again, paraphrase my buddy senor Tardiff.."Life is SOOOOOO good!!!"
Sheila..sorry to kinda, sorta hijack your post...but I am sooo happy to be warm I can't help it!!
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Woke up to the temps in the teens, snow on the ground but supposed to be in the 50's by end of week. And to think that we get our biggest blizzards in March. Sorry Curtis but you haven't seen a true Michgian winter this year.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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Getting warm here.....70's + days and 50's at nite. All the trees are budded out; flowers coming up; daffodils everywhere blooming. About time for a late freeze to screw everything up. Let's hope not.
That means I've got to get hot on my long-going-on wall restoration project. Downtown, there's a long wall of murals, depicting the businesses in our town after the turn of the century. It was deteriorating badly, so I offered to take on the task of restoring and preserving it. Turned out to be much larger a project than I hoped; but most folks around are happy to see it not just go to pot.
-------------------- Dale Feicke Grafix 714 East St. Mendenhall, MS 39114
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I have to admit, it is gettin' better slowly but surely but it is far from my favorite weather yet !!!
Still around 15-20 of your degrees at night and pushing hard to upper 20s at day. The sun is starting to feel good if your in direct light and protected from the wind.
But it will a while yet before I can flip a few bugers on my BBQ...as you can see in my backyard!!! (sorry for the camera cord..)
wait'll you see the blistering tan you can get around July and August . . . I think the pouring sweat magnifies the sunrays . . . . not usually before light-headeness and the dizzyness of a heat stroke sets in . . . but that's only after your speech slurs and your crawling for shade and some kind of fan or non-existant breeze . . . forget fatigue caused by post hole diggin' in yellow and/or rock-hard red clay, ladder climbin' and other 'work' . . . you'll be worn slap-out running from yellow jackets, bees, or wasps, swattin' gnats and flies, and gasping for some semblence of 'fresh air' which exists only as some sort of thick, heavy, humid steam . . .
So now ya know what causes us to be rednecks . . . we walk a round mad from the weather . . .
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