Snow redux

[altivo]

Here it comes. Overnight and much of tomorrow, could amount to several inches (or not.) Couldn't we just maybe get it all at once and be done with it.

Seed catalogs are coming in the mail, even I'm done with winter. I call time.

*goes looking for a groundhog to stick headfirst into a snowbank*

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[marzolan.livejournal.com]

*envy*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Bah. This isn't the fluffy fun snow. It's the soggy, spongy, wet snow that freezes into icebergs. In fact, it's raining right now, but they still say that's going to change to snow this afternoon, which means first a period of ice accumulation probably.

[lobowolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we're supposed to get it too...bleah. Although we're not out of the proverbial woods until the end of April anyway.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Usually anything after March first here is very short-lived, though we can get freezing rain or really heavy thunderstorms.

[silver-kiden.livejournal.com]

*helps you search for that damn rodent*

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Good. Let's dip him in ice water and hang him up by his tail.

I agree

[bladehorse.livejournal.com]

Ive had enough of winter. I want at least 70*. or really at least no more damn snow at work! 2 weeks ago it was 72* at work, and the last 5 days, its been snowing.We now have 5' on the ground.Its been dropping 2' overnight, and at least 1' every day. It has been hovering right around 33* during the day. Were starting to run out of places to put the stuff, so running the tractor all day, I cut ramps out off the edge of the parkinglots, and dumped it down the hill into the forest. Compacted, the snow is about 3' deep, and like a glacier. (Theres a pick of the stuff from Friday on F4L under 'trains' group. but there needs to be another 2' at least added to those picks:P

Re: I agree

[altivo.livejournal.com]

What elevation is your job at? That's a lot more snow than I expect in most of California other than ski resorts.

Of course the people who don't want to believe in global climate change think this kind of winter proves that it's a "liberal lie." But it doesn't. What the press has insisted on referring to as "warming" is really "climate shift" and involves major changes in precipitation and temperatures in both directions.

Re: I agree

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Can I has moar snow in Finland? :D

We have had surprisingly little in the last 5 years or so.

Re: I agree

[altivo.livejournal.com]

You're on the other end of that climate change lever. But if the currents in the Atlantic start shifting around, that could change pretty drastically.

Re: I agree

[soanos.livejournal.com]

Sounds like interesting times ahead. Apparently they say the climate change is accelerating.

Re: I agree

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, "interesting times" in the Chinese sense. Probably not fun.

[soanos.livejournal.com]

That is what I was referring to ;)

A humorous bunch, those Chinese. :P

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that in the UK it's universally called "climate change" now. "Global warming" as a phrase hasn't been seen in some time.

Re: I agree

[bladehorse.livejournal.com]

house is at 2700' or so, and work is at 4850'. Almost ski resort area:P
The norms of winter/summer are way askew, and spring is all but gone in CA these days. Used to last at least 2 months,now its at best 2 weeks.

[rustitobuck.livejournal.com]

Seed catalogs? I'm getting invitations to join the AARP.

(Somewhere out there is a record of a past address of mine that has my age off by more than ten years.)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Actually I think they're not off by quite that much. They usually start in on you at age 50. I can't retire for at least another eight years, but I've been an AARP member for nine years already. The amount it saves on car insurance alone makes it worthwhile. ;p

[rustitobuck.livejournal.com]

Also, Mr. Horse-dude, aren't more inches better? We've had about 44 inches at O'Hare, not quite the 89.7 we had in 1979.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Where I live, the O'Hare count is not relevant. Rockford is more significant. Last time I checked, they were somewhere in the mid-40s as well, but the difference is that the all time record is lower at 60-something and was set just last year I think.

The 1979 snow was a fluke built by lake-effect and magnified in everyone's memory because of the attendant political issues. Besides, I was younger then and it was still fun.

I wouldn't mind a real snow storm, actually. Slop and slush, though, have never excited me and freezing rain (which appears to be a risk right now) even less so.

[shiningriver.livejournal.com]

Seed catalogs can be fun. The pics in them are always so idealistic, so vivid. What might you plant? Horseradish? Horesmint? I just now had to Google for "equisetum", that name came to mind from long ago but I couldn't remember exactly what it is. Horsetail, sometimes used ornamentally in garden water features, etc.

[shiningriver.livejournal.com]

Horsemint, not horesmint. Oh, dear :)

[flamekist.livejournal.com]

But horesmint would make them so minty-fresh...;)

[shiningriver.livejournal.com]

I just looked at the San Marco Growers webpage on equisetum and it says that equisetum is poisonous to horses. Not so much fun.

http://www.smgrowers.com/products/plants/plantdisplay.asp?plant_id=554

[altivo.livejournal.com]

We had some Equisetum growing when we bought the place, but it has disappeared now that the pastures are less overgrazed. Horses really don't care to eat it, probably because it's gritty. I worry more about jimsonweed which still shows up occasionally and I hit it with herbicide as soon as I spot it.

The real nasty plant is Chinese yew (Taxus sp.) Just a mouthful can kill an adult horse and we have a neighbor who would blissfully plant it along a fence line without even thinking about possible consequences.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

We plant stuff we can eat. I like snow peas, tomatoes, pole beans, and squashes. Gary likes root veggies like rutabagas and beets.

[soanos.livejournal.com]

I like veggies, too! \o/

I wish I could drop in for a dinner some day :)

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

That pesky groundhog! Hope the snow isn't too confusing for the geegees.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Right now it looks as if it will be ice and slush instead of proper snow. Other than mud, that's about my least favorite condition.

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed. Ehwell, hope it clears up quickly.

[flamekist.livejournal.com]

Not only have my seed catalogs come in already, but the seeds have been ordered, received, and started indoors. I just checked on them this morning and I've now got a couple of tomato plants just starting to poke out of the soil.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Your spring runs a full month ahead of ours. I'll be ordering seeds in the next couple of weeks and starting them in late March or so.

[saythename.livejournal.com]

Your west of me so...

*gets the salt and shovel ready*

>.<

[altivo.livejournal.com]

It turned out to be mostly rain and fog here. Temperature hovered above freezing all night. They're still saying the Indiana shoreline could get three inches tonight, though, so I guess it could be full-blown lake effect by the time it gets to you.

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

Hehe a pony sticking groundhogs into snowbanks :D

[altivo.livejournal.com]

It's easy once you catch them. I use one of those bulb planters that screws a hole into the ground. Then you just stuff the groundhog into it and pack snow around his tail. ;p

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

That sight is just too funny XD

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Well, it was intended to be funny to everyone except the groundhog. ;p