Just Cold
Do you see that bitter, grey, grim looking sky? Well, that's what it has been like for the last week. Typical highs this time of year are in the '60's. We've had to make due with '40's and with an incessant, howling wind.
So planting has taken a back seat this week. It is no matter that the extra Dutch white clover seeds are delayed in the mail. The black eyed Susan seeds that I purchased are languishing on my desk.
The cauliflower in the greenhouse seems to be at a standstill. Just little, tiny sprouts.
I worked on hardscape instead this week, finishing a shadow-box fence that will conceal our garbage cans out along the side of the garage.
Surprisingly, the many, many tulips K. planted last fall have managed not to be killed by the hard frost we are getting every night.
I've left the strawberries buried under straw, even though some are starting to burst out of their own accord. Two more nights of below 30 degrees, so I'm not encouraging them.
Shockingly, the arugula has sprouted, as have most of the snow peas planted so far. I saw a sign of a lone beet when I picked up the cover, and it looks like, under cover, the three rows of carrots I planted are going.
C'mon Zeus!! Enough already. This has been an utterly brutal winter. Luckily, I discovered a few sticks of firewood along the fence under some saved leaves which bought us another night of fire, but we are truly down to the very end. I was hoping to have a bit of it left over, if only to keep the wood ricks covered with tarps from blowing over in the wind. They provide a nice privacy screen.
I also managed some indoor projects, painting the endless trim, cutting a bathroom door down so it will fit over the new carpeting. It did not go well. Perhaps it was the anger juice (espresso) that I drank after my nap...
We did some car maintenance: a new cabin filter ($10 and 5 minutes - never let the oil change people...like the folks at Kia, charge you $59 to accomplish this task. Even a complete car illiterate like I am can manage it). We put new windshield wipers on K's car. Vacuumed out rubble and washed the rubber floor mats. I even completed the hideous chore, which has put a kink in my neck, of cleaning the inside of the windshield. I tried to make it meditative, with limited success.
Summer! Where are you?
I just purchased some hopeful seeds - some salvia & milkweed - for the proposed pollinator field on the hillside. They won't arrive until Wednesday, but neither will any weather that could be considered even half way decent.
It cannot get warmer soon enough.
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