Another slow day

[altivo]

Time for this cloudy, cold weather to dissipate. I know, I know, April showers and all that. But it's not showering, it's just glooming. And cold. Too cold.

Another indoor day, except for necessary chores. Gotta go do evening feed and water routine in a minute here, too. Played with the radio some more. Gosh, with this hookup I can do SSTV as well, something I've never played with much because it used to take pretty expensive equipment. Made a couple of contacts with the PSK31 mode this morning, but conditions aren't great. Time for the sunspots to come back. Got the software set up for simple RTTY too, but no one to try it out on.

We have hundreds of daffodils in a holding pattern, partly open but stalled by the absence of sun and warmth. One of the ducks, however, saw fit to deliver an egg this morning, first one of the year. Each year it gets later, the poor hens are getting old like me.

Well, off to the barns. Then I think I may actually fire up the wood stove.

Comments

[quickcasey.livejournal.com]

It does feel colder than it is.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Indeed. We had a high in the mid-30s today, but there was still ice on all the buckets this afternoon. It's that dry wind blowing across everything that makes it feel so cold.

[tinbender.livejournal.com]

My daffodils are mostly done. I had some nice tulips, but it looks like the cold has killed them off. Tomorrow is supposed to be our coldest Easter ever. Of course Monday it'll start warming up. Better late than never and with any luck it'll stay warm this time around. At least we didn't get snow.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

We haven't had a tulip in years. The squirrels like them too much. First they dug them up and reburied them in odd places. Now I think they've eaten them all. Daffodils and iris, though, don't seem to interest them.

[vimsig.livejournal.com]

We're shivering under sleet and ice-cold winds.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

And here it looked like your spring was ahead of ours...

[vimsig.livejournal.com]

it's all one great tease.

[heavens-steed.livejournal.com]

Apparently many parts of the U.S. is experiencing record lows for this Easter. Stay warm *offers to help you out with that* ;)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

*blinks at you, then pulls you under the quilt with him*

[octatonic.livejournal.com]

We've got flowers stuttering here too.

*WTF!? Say the flowers, poking through snow. "Make
up your freakin mind weather!"

^_^

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Snow... Well, at least we don't have that any more. *crosses hooves*