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BRRRR! A Cold December Morning!
Comments (36)Dorothy, You're welcome. I'm always happy to spread the word about Eliot Coleman's books and, also, about his wife's books. And that reminds me, Barbara Damrosch's wonderful book, "The Garden Primer", was updated and re-released in 2008 and I need to get a copy of it. It has been many years since I originally read her books but I remember that I enjoyed The Garden Primer and her Theme Gardens book immensely. Wait until you see his greenhouses (giant hoophouses really) on movable skids. They are amazing. It sounds like the cold finally reached y'all. I'd try harder to do some winter gardening, but I don't like cold weather. I finally lost the rest of my castor bean plants this week when the temperatures dropped into the low 20s. They had been killed back bit by bit with each successive frost. Having attained heights ranging from 8 to about 12 or 14' in height, they were gorgeous. They froze from the top down, but I left the ugly frozen leaves on them (although some eventually dropped on their own) because those leaves protected the still healthy leaves beneath them. I noticed Friday, though, that every one of them is now totally frozen out. In the garden, though, I still have lemon balm, sage, mint, rosemary, oregano, sweet alyssum, a few Laura Bush petunias in both pink and purple, and dianthus. Everything else is done. Every meal I've prepared this week has incorporated several items raised in the garden...that's how I keep my garden "alive" all winter long....by eating from it. I suppose we need the winter down time to rest and recover from a long garden season. Even as I lament the freezing weather and the end of the garden, I'm also looking at the 2010 calendar and starting to plot out my planting dates. LOL I do still have several pepper plants in pots that are producing peppers. I drag them into the garage at night (aling with the brugs) and back out during the day. It isn't exactly like we need more peppers....as y'all know, we harvested about 4 times our usual amount this summer. I think I keep the peppers alive as long as possible just so something is still green and producing....because I really miss the 'green' in the winter when most the landscape is brown or tawny gold. Dawn Here is a link that might be useful: The Garden Primer, Second Edition...See MoreRaining Again
Comments (22)stockergal, I am so glad you finally got some good rain AND some sunshine. Life is very good indeed! The family whose home was destroyed by the straight line winds was featured on the local news today and my heart goes out to them. The house lost the entire roof and the rain poured in, ruining virtually everything inside. They heard a mighty rushing wind but there's no radar indications of a tornado, so I am wondering if they got hit by a downburst or microburst. It all happened so quickly that they couldn't make it out of the house to run to the tornado shelter, so they had to hunker down inside the house and hope for the best. Regardless whether it was straight-line wind, a downburst or a tiny tornado, their home is considered completely destroyed, hurt as much by the water damage as the wind damage. I am unsure if it was their travel trailer or someone else's that rolled 25 yards, but it looks bad and surely is totaled too. On top of that, they had a large flock of chickens. Of course the wind demolished their chicken coop and killed 25 of their chickens. They just had a horrible, horrible experience. No other homes in their area were damaged at all. Talk about bad luck! For their sake, I sure hope they had good insurance coverage. Around the time they got hit, we did record a wind gust of 48 mph at our local mesonet station (which is nowhere near where they live) but the local TV meteorologist who viewed video of the damage of their home estimated the damage was caused by winds of 60-70 mph. Having seen what those fairly low winds (low compared to the winds from a high-category tornado) did to their home, I know I cannot even comprehend the kind of damage that your tornado did to your place several years ago. The power of Mother Nature is just stunning. Dawn...See MoreDecember 2018, Week 1
Comments (36)Kim, I was watching reporters from The Weather Channel reporting on your snow this morning as it was still falling, and it was so pretty. I'm glad you have the weekend off so you don't have to go out and drive in it, especially after the roads refreeze tonight. When our local TV met told us on Wed or Thurs that the models were trending further south, I started wondering who would get the snow----and it never occurred to me that it would be Lubbock. Nancy, Lately the problem cat has been Lucky. She got stuck in the garage one day and I finally found her around 9 pm when I had walked the property calling her and was getting no response. Tim and I both had checked the garage for her previously and not found her, so I'm guessing she was either asleep or ignoring us. Maybe she just was tired of toying with us that last time so she decided to pop up near the garage door, looking at us as if to say "Me? Are you looking for me?" A couple of nights later, she still was missing at bedtime. We found her in the chicken coop. At least when she goes missing, she has found a way to get shut up securely inside a building so she's safe from the roaming wildlife even if I don't know it at the time. The other cats all come in before dark, but she was feral to semi-feral when she found us and came to live here and there's still a lot of the wild, roaming instinct in her. Jennifer, I am so glad you found Finbar. I hate it when any of the furbabies wander off and cannot be found. I understand your happiness that your son still wants something that could be considered a toy. You know, there is that old saying that the only difference in men and boys is the price of their toys..... Tell us what some of your favorite tomatoes are and we can suggest varieties with a similar flavor profile. Our Wal-mart is already pushing holiday stuff together and consolidating it on fewer and fewer aisles in order to free up space for lawn and garden stuff on at least one or two aisles. I noticed this only this morning and was glad to see it. This is the earliest I can remember them doing that. They also just this week put out a rack of children's swim suits, which we saw while shopping for hard-to-find coats and winter hats. Nowadays, American retailers seem to operate under the axiom that the early bird gets the worm. Bruce, I'm glad you found the pork fat and hope the making of summer sausage is going well. It rained on and off for the last 24 hours---never very heavily, but it also never really stopped. We had everything from light mist to light drizzle to light rainfall. Cold rainfall. Our low temperature this morning was 36, our high temperature this afternoon was 37 and right now it has dropped to a new low of 35. How's that for very little variation? At least the thermometers didn't have to work very hard today. We never got cold enough for snow, sleet or freezing rain, which probably was a good thing. We have about an inch of rain in the rain gauge, so we're back to muddy paw prints on the floor. Oh well, that's why God gave us mops. We got most of our Christmas shopping done today, and basically will focus on finding stocking stuffers for everyone tomorrow. I'm relieved to be this far along in the process so early in the month. No new gardening catalogs came in the mail today. Bummer! Speaking of gardening activity, I saw a commercial on TV today for Golden Girl chia pets. Oh, and Bob Ross too. I might have laughed at this commercial. I am almost starved enough to be growing something that I considered buying one. lol lol lol The yard was really pretty today. I put out lots of bird seed for all the birds (and deer and squirrels as well, apparently) and the yard was full of all kinds of birds, but especially doves, blue jays (the largest number of them I've ever seen here at one time) and cardinals. If the old southern belief that cardinals are the souls of dearly departed relatives come back to visit you is really true, then we were having a huge family reunion in our yard today. I have noticed that our sole gingerbread house makes the kitchen smell delicious, so today I baked more gingerbread. The whole house smelled great while it was baking. I then did the only thing a bored woman could do on a cold, rainy Saturday afternoon. I ate some of the gingerbread. It tasted as good as it smelled. That's all the news from here, and tomorrow starts a new week. It sure seems like December is flying by. Dawn...See MoreWind ? What the heck was that ?
Comments (7)Lynn, The weather phenomenon experienced in parts of Oklahoma overnight and this morning is what meteorologists call a "wake low". You sometimes will have a wake low form behind lines of powerful thunderstorms that create high pressure. The difference between the high pressure created by the storms and the wake low is what gives rise to strong winds like y'all had there. It is, as you noted, different from a gust front. We see those gust fronts on the leading edges of lines of strong storms, and the wake lows are different in that they trail along behind lines of strong storms. We had a different kind of wind damage in our county last week, when collapsing thunderstorms created a heat burst, which can cause a rapid rise in temperatures, often in a fairly compact area, and very strong winds that bring down trees and power lines in and near that area. At our house last week we got the wind, but not the temperature rise, and people west of us got the temperature rise and the wind and people south of us got stronger wind than us and they had damage, so these sorts of weather events can affect people different just a few miles apart from one another. Mother Nature has many ways to wreak havoc on us at this time of the year. If the onion necks are only bent and not broken, they should bulb up just fine. Time will tell. That little plant looks like native purslane (Portulaca oleracea), and it is a fierce competitor. It also lacks the larger, prettier flowers of cultivated purslanes sold as bedding plants. Purslane is edible and can be harvested and added to salads and such. You can use purslane in the same way you'd use spinach or watercress. Personally, I weed them out because if you let one of them stay, before you know it, you'll have a hundred of them, and then a thousand of them. I let one stay in a raised bed of tomatoes one single time about 15 years ago and despite my best efforts to weed them out, I still have some pop up in that general area every single year. I suspect they will haunt me and my garden forever. I hope your onions are going to be okay. Dawn...See More- 11 months ago
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