Cold weather

Heck, we've been getting torrential rainfall here for the last few days. Connie and I had to run to the post office and our road had muddy ruts about a foot deep. She went into four wheel drive as the truck was sliding all over the place. Our cars would have been lost for good in the mud.

Ah, country living.............

Well, with a couple of nights between Thursday night and Monday morning forecast to be in the upper 20s here, I figured I'd better get a few pics of the trees flowering before the cold killed the blooms.

This one is a Japanese magnolia.


Pear tree.


Apple tree.

Temps started pushing down to 33 degrees, so I went outside and dripped the faucets, just in case. And not too much later Connie noticed that the bird feeder outside the bedroom window had been bent over (again!) and the feed blocks gone. So apparently Mr. Bear was wondering around outside right around the same time. I'm guessing he probably destroyed the wire cages those feed blocks were in. Again. He got into one of the compost bins about a week ago that I had to fix, so hope he didn't do that again. He's getting to be a nuisance now...... Honestly, I'm REAL surprised he didn't get into the fruit trees last Summer and Fall. He probably would have broken all kinds of branches in those young trees.

Something just isn't RIGHT about this....

Ugh.... went down to 23.8 degrees last night. We covered what we could, but just didn't have enough tarps for all the fruit trees, so hopefully they didn't get damaged too much. It only got to about 45 degrees yesterday, and today it may reach 50. By Sunday the high temp is supposed to be up to 77 degrees..........

Oh yeah, the flowers of the Japanese magnolia I posted earlier are all history right now. The cold pretty much did them in.

Well, I'm just glad I don't live up in Maryland any longer...... Looks like they are having right crappy weather there today.

So today it hit 80 degrees.... I guess I slept through Spring.....

We're excited (here in Maine) because we are going to be in the 20's-30's during the day and teens at night. LOL That's our spring !!

I heard on the news that this February in Maine was the COLDEST on record during the 5TH WARMEST winter on record in the US.
When it comes to global warming, we are getting SCREWED in the Northeast !!!!!!

Originally Posted by daddio207

We're excited (here in Maine) because we are going to be in the 20's-30's during the day and teens at night. LOL That's our spring !!

Yeah, same here. We're happy when the mucus in our noses doesn't freeze when we walk to the mailbox, lol!

Kathy

Yeah, I remember the good old days in Maryland. Having to get up an extra hour early in the morning so I had time to get all the ice off of the car so I could get to work. Always have a spare ice scraper because sometimes they will snap in two. Sometimes with a freezing rain over night I couldn't even open the doors to the car because they were frozen solid.

It's a pretty odd feeling when your nostril hairs freeze inside of your nose.....

Yeah, I sure do miss all of that.......

I know Maryland didn't have as long or as bad of a cold winter as parts further north, but we still had our moments now and again.