How is Your Weather Where You Are?
Marilyn Sue McClintock
3 years ago
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Comments (10)We've been having afternoons in the upper 40s F - Much above average for SE Wisc. The weather service is predicting the return of normal winter tomorrow. They expect it to start snowing by 3 am Thursday and throughout the day drop 5 to 8 inches of snow and then turn colder. My snow shovel is tuned up and the snow-blower is ready. I walked 2.75 miles today for exercise - I know what I'll be doing tomorrow for exercise! Next week on the 18th, I hope we don't have a winter storm. That's the day I ferry my friend's car to O-Hare Field (Chicago) to pick him up. He's flying in from half way around the globe from the southern hemisphere....See MoreHigh winds and Rain
Comments (1)Sue, Glad you didn't have any damage, but I feel for the farmers who lost outbuildings. Here in central Texas we have temps in the mid-70's, overcast with the promise of some rain this evening (in Texas rain is never "threatened", it is promised!). Our crops are doing fine--rain just in time for the corn, the first cutting of hay is in and the vegetable gardens are going gung-ho. Hope your spring improves soon....See MoreGood Morning
Comments (11)Pammy, thimbleberries grow locally here in the U.P. but I've never lived anywhere else where they grow. They grow on bushes, kind of like a raspberry but the bushes have large (hand size) leaves and huge white blossoms, about an inch and a quarter in diameter. The berries are red and a little similar to a raspberry but not really. The seeds are much smaller.. very tiny. The flavor is a little raspberry like but again not really. They are sweet and much milder than a raspberry. The berries are also larger than raspberries. And they are very soft and delicate. They fall off the bush easily and they mush up easily if you fill the bucket too full. They are a highly sought after local delicacy. There are not any domestic ones, and jam makers here will pay $10 or more a pound for the wild ones (and some people here do supplement their incomes by picking wild berries). Here's a link to Wikipedia for thimbleberries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_parviflorus And I'm going to put a link at the bottom to a local jam maker, lives in Eagle River, MI, just a mile from our camp. As a matter of fact, the little girl on the web page linked below, is all grown up and dating a guy my husband used to work with, and they visited our camp on the 4th of July this year :-) If you look at her products, you'll notice that some jams start as low as 6 or 7 dollars, but thimbleberry jam is 10.50 (and wild strawberry is even higher). That's because thimbleberries are so much more delicate and harder to pick and deliver in good conditions. Wild strawberry jam is expensive because wild strawberries are TINY!!! Here is a link that might be useful: The Jam Lady website...See MoreGood Morning
Comments (6)Gorgeous day here, 77 a little after 1pm. I wasn't going to do anything outside, just sit out there and enjoy it; but you know how that goes. I decided to bring in the cast aluminum table and chair set from the garden and the little bistro table and chairs down in the orchard. They all fit into the storage barn like a jigsaw puzzle among the stacks of wicker chairs. Finally put my little cast iron statue that sits on a pedestal in the sunken garden away for the winter too. By the time I was through, I was out of breath and sweating. Just from that little bit of activity. The weatherman says this may be the last day of truly nice Fall weather....See More
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