In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Your weather (collectively) sucks. I feel for you!
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Gonna be super busy until the end of next week, maybe they the end of the month. I'll be reading but not posting much.
Hang in there! It starts to getter better after February. Well, at least the days are noticeably longer, so that's something.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Yeah... It's still not as bad as last February was (fingers crossed).
We had a whole month where it didn't get above freezing and we had 40" of snow on our roofs that entire time.
At least it got almost up to 50 today and melted most of the old stuff away before this new stuff starts coming down.
We've already got an inch or so now. It's not snowing at the moment, but I'm sure I'll be shoveling and blowing early tomorrow.
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Wow... it's coming down.
No way I'm doing anything outside at the moment. I'll probably be out there at some point in a blizzard though. I'll probably wait until mid-afternoon sometime.
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The snow missed me but I am sure Vancouver got some and other areas. Dry right now for my walk but I will take my umbrella incase of rain.
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So ... I'm not trying to rub in the weather here (and we pay for not having a real winter by having drought, relentless summer heat and sun, and a year-round fire season!) ... but the oxalis is blooming, and the honeybees are all over it.
OTOH these honey bees are a bit smaller than usual, not as chunky, somewhat aggressive, and really REALLY fast fliers. And that makes me think they might possibly be Africanized (which are still real honeybees, just not as nice as the 100% European kind). But I noticed the same kind of bee and the same kind of behavior a few blocks down on a blooming rosemary shrub. So if it's a problem, it's a neighborhood-wide problem and not limited to one very close by me. And for sure there's no hive in my yard, so there's nothing I can do about it anyway.
Also I saw an unusual hawk today. Looking it up, I think it was a Swainson’s Hawk, which is the only black-chested small raptor I found.
Apparently they migrate to Argentina for the winter. Some hawks migrate? Who knew? Anyway, for some reason they seem to think summer is over in Argentina, and winter is over over here.
Speaking of weather, again, I think our rain is over for the year. We had a remarkable December, but nothing to speak of in January and by now the rainy season is passing. So we'll be at about 11" which is 4" short out of 15". But that isn't bad for a la Nina year, and not as bad 2017-2018 when we had about 4 3/4" of rain, and 2020-2021 when we had about 5 3/4" of rain.
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Yeah. The weather is kind of a drag here. We have not gotten our normal allotment of snow this winter. It has mostly been too cold for snow here. Weatherguessers said yesterday was supposed to be 38F but ended up 46F, and today is single digits again.
Snow to the South, not sure about north of here.
So we have enough of Nature's Air Conditioning, but not enough snow, which cleans out the crud from the air.
And I keep forgetting to take Boost. Yesterday really felt it while cleaning up remnant snow and ice. Should have taken it the past 4 days.
Yesterday didn't get everything done by dusk. So was still moving things around while dark. Had my very best Battery Charger on the engine bay while moving one vehicle, and it jumped down, and I ended up driving over it, crushing it.
My very best, most durable, Battery Charger. Dang. Gingerly cradled most of the pieces, reconnected internal connectors, and it seems to be working at the moment, but I have not glued, strapped, or cobbled it back together. Really ticks me off. That might be really hard to replace.
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My area did get a bit of snow and it tried to snow when I went out. It kept trying but what fell was a bit of hail then a little bit of snow. It's dry right now and we are sitting at 1C which is around 33F.
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Well, I saw a flash of blue today, and I heard a scrub jay shriek (sounds like a rusty swing set) so my plan to bring the scrub jays back... worked!
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I sanded down the wood putty and put the first coat of paint on all of the trim. Since the paint is labeled as a paint/primer, I just hit all the marks, discolorations and anywhere that I mudded on the walls while I was at it.
Next step will be to put a third coat of paint on the ceiling, because this paint is trash. While I'm doing that, I'll just roll it out on the walls too so I've got more or less a blank slate to work with and see if there are any more repairs that need to be made.
After that, it was 2 1/2 hours of fun out in the snow. I don't know why I thought it would be light snow. It wasn't. At least 12" out there of heavy snow. But the wind is so bad that it's drifting everywhere too. The bermuda triangle had about 2 feet of snow to clear out just so I could get to the garage, and then I had to go through the house and try not to get everything wet so I could shovel the porch and the front walkway. Usually I'd just walk through the snow that way, but not with this much.
Snowblower was a champ and got the job done, but it was miserable. Wind kept changing direction every 3 seconds and always seemed to go straight toward my face. I had icicle beard and eyebrows when I came inside.
Hopefully we don't get too much more before tomorrow night, but the worst of it is over.
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