The weather is nuts! I am meant to be waitressing for Jake this afternoon at a private event but they are forecasting one to three inches of snow. Now I know that may not happen but really!!
This was yesterday – pigs sleeping in the sun and then last night I had to lock in Molly and the babies again because of rain and freezing winds and now snow?
This blog is really a farm journal and often a good gossip about the animals over a cup of coffee – usually we – the fellowship – are sharing really good information with each other, exchanging our short or long lifetimes worth of really useful experiences but this morning I am going to have a moan about the bloody weather! SNOW?
Should I risk it and drive all the way to the restaurant? Surely it will not SNOW! In mid April! In the mid West? Right on the cusp of the last frost date.
I tell you one thing – I am THIS close to fencing the hay fields. I don’t think this is going to be a good summer for bringing in hay! I am thinking I might graze them for a few months longer and buy some hay. That’s what I am thinking.
Apparently I do a lot of thinking. 
At least snow is not cold.
Maybe I will take the truck. But that truck is such a gas guzzler. Ah well. Bloody weather.
Celi
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43 responses to “SNOW”
Well, next Sunday is Easter, and I remember one Iowa spring, around 1960, when we went to church on Easter Sunday in snow deep enough to be up to the bottom of the blossoms on the already-blooming tulips. So, there’s that. What you describe sounds rather normal to me, sad to say, but I hope you don’t get any snow!
Oh yes. The weather can do all kinds of things in this America! I have certainly had daffs full of snow previous years – I just felt like moaning this morning that’s all.
Moan away! You’re entitled!
I grew up in Southeastern Wisconsin and still remember the year we had two days of school cancelled in mid-May because of a snow storm. Stay warm!
A cold memory
Oh geez, I remember that, the leaves were already on the trees. So many of them had tops and branches broken off it looked like a bomb went off in the woods behind my house.
Oh it can definitely happen! I just received a Facebook memory from last year on this date where I was consoling my Minnesota family on their snowstorm with temps in the 20s, while here around DC it was in the 70s!
America is huge this is true – it’s an enormous country with such variations in temperatures. Some of the fellowship are still
Sub zero
Up here in the north woods spring doesn’t really come until May- daffodils pop up and I cover their little heads at night. I feel sorry for the robins that arrive in March pecking through the snow in the warmer ground right by the house- but I’m sorry I am not feeding those alive mealy worms!!
I feel sorry for the bees around here too – they would all be out and about – having broken out of their winter formations
Even worse if you’ve got dandelions in bloom already – they’ll not just have broken cluster but will have brood comb to cover as well…
Snow …. I wish 😃. Laura
I know! I am still a snow person too. I am fairly sure this will be just slush
Yikes! I’m with you! I thought Spring had sprung!!! We will dip down tonight into the 30s, but not quite to freezing. We are so hoping that we can keep the fruit on our trees this year! The last few years a late frost froze the the buds and tiny fruit right off the branches. 😦 So we are hoping, crossing fingers and touching wood that they all make it this year. Then we’ll have peaches, plums and pears to put up!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 But I’m not ‘counting my chickens before they hatch’ as they say, only desperately hoping we don’t get one last frost!!!
We used to bring in the helicopters into the orchards to swirl the frozen air back Up and away from the trees. You could Turn your sprinkler on under the trees- it disrupts the layer of frozen air. Or create some kind of smudge pot under your favorite trees. The smoke from an old fashioned smudge pot will do the same thing. The cold air drops low so your objective is to mix up the layers of air and keep
The frost from settling into your trees!
Or maybe dance around the trees all night with flaming torches. An old smudge pot would be easier though
Too funny! The dancing around the trees with flaming torches sounds pretty exciting, but only it the weather is warm! 🙂 We tried the sprinklers one year and the flowers got wet and froze, so no fruit! 😦 Then tried creating heat with burn barrels under the trees, but that didn’t create enough heat to keep the flowers and buds from freezing, so no fruit that year either! 😦 We need to make and try the smudge pots and if they aren’t too expensive. Right now we are just desperately hoping we don’t get a freeze!!!!
I empathize with you! Let’s hope it does not freeze. My trees are not even flowering yet. It has not been warm enough really
When I was about 13 we had snow in mid-May in the south of England…. Never say never. And I think you should only venture out in the truck if you know you can make it safely home if that snow does arrive.
It will be slushy whatever comes- I don’t think it will settle
The tribulations of an outdoor life. So much depends on the weather, but the weather can certainly not be controlled, seldom be reliably predicted, and only moaned about! In Normandy it is related to the tides, so very unpredictable, and even Greece is becoming more so…
I say: my job has no roof! I loved Greece- you know I could see myself settling on one of those sparse islands – not enough feed for a cow though.
No, you’d have to take to keeping goats!
And you know how I feel
About goats!!
🤣 They do taste good though, when they’ve been fed on sea grass!
And here we are the opposite in Central Alberta! We have all our snow gone at the beginning of April and really that is unheard of! Our rivers are all open too. So weird for us. Still lots of snow in the mountains up high but Canmore has no snow. We almost always have snow for the May long weekend and that is still six weeks away. I don’t see how some people are ignoring climate change and saying it is not real!
Canmore with no snow! Wow.
WOW, so glad we are not getting snow. Such strange weather.
It’s cold here too. No snow but very cold winds that are driving me mad! As an old saying goes. Don’t cast a clout till May is out. 😀
I would be moaning about snow, too. I am so ready for Spring, and it is HERE. Every time it rains, more green pops up. The youngest is having trouble spying on the neighbors now because the leaves are in the way. He will have to find a new hobby for a few months.
It won’t snow because I am sending you warm thoughts.
You know I get your weather two days before you do. It was quick and slushy snow, and gone in a day. I’ll do a dance to appease the weather God’s on your behalf.
I know!! We are having snow/rain/ice pellets right now and it is supposed to continue all night. By body needs sunlight and green.
There you are in USA with snow predictions, and here in NZ we are having a cold snap with temperatures nearly to zero overnight. So odd to think that on two sides of the world we are both so cold! Our temperatures here have dropped so fast, only a couple of weeks ago it was getting up to mid-thirties during the day. At least we get fine cloudless days when it’s this cold, straight from the south, the clouds all stop off at the central plateau and we are left with beautiful sunshine but snow-freeze temperatures!