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Gettin itchy

15 years ago

Gettin itchy ... It's only early in Feb ... but going to be around 50 degs this weekend in midwest. Still have about a foot of snow on ground....but nice to see it melting. Sure there could be some big snow storms yet before spring...but when you see snow melting it gets you excited and ready to get the tractor ready. Guess I have spring fever early.

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wheely_boy
15 years ago
It was -6F this morning. 50 is going to feel mighty balmy. There is going to be a mess of water trying to somewhere when that happens.

Been getting regular seat time in these parts. Why I was just pounding back the snow piles last night.
twelvegauge
15 years ago
Sorry, fellows. I won't mention that it was 76 here today. Of course, I won't mention the 105's we get in August, either.
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bill_kapaun
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What IS this "SNOW" of which you speak?
larso1
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Yah, same here. I've forgotten what snow is....or rain. 70-deg.F. today. Everything's dry, even a Red Flag fire warning yesterday and today. I need to water the lawn but the nights get down to 20-deg.F. risking freeze damage to the sprinkler system.
biglumber
15 years ago
I'm with you larso. My bluegrass has turned a fire color brown. Doesn't look good. I have been watering the trees.
We'll get 60's and wind today so it should dry things out even more. Better snow/rain like the say, it hasn't the past two times that they forecast it.
I'm about ready to de-winterize the sprinkler system.
johninmd
15 years ago
Here where i am in Maryland, winter has been a let down, bought a new electric winch for plow, got tired of lift handle. Put cab on, and so far we have had maybe 2 snows that wasn't worth plowing, about 5" once and 3-4" another time.
I got itchy and the free LT i got recently, got it fixed and been out driving it around, waiting on the grass to grow.
In 1996 we had 34" of snow in one snow storm, guess what... when i didn't have a plow tractor! haven't had a good one since..depressing..
davidandkasie
15 years ago
it was 74 today. the weeds have been coming up for a couple weeks now here, and in a couple places i am actually seeing my bermuda coming out of hibernation. i need to cut the grass at work already, was gonna do it today but the wind was too strong to spray and i like to do that in the same day.

i was looking over the yard today to see wher ei will put the garden this year. i decided i will likely move it from it's current location jsut to get it closer to the house(currently it is 100 yards away).
tuco
15 years ago
Still under about a half a foot of snow here but it's getting a little better as the days go on. The sun is much higher and out for the better part of the day now. Temp's are finally improving to the point where any snowless ground is beginning to get soft & mushy.

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