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Title: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: Perry on March 15, 2015, 10:20:32 am: Really??

Woke up to this today and it's just started. The driveway was clear and there was almost no snow on the shed roof.

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Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: G3farms on March 15, 2015, 11:00:00 am: I just don't see how you do it Perry.
By now I would just be so bummed out of seeing all of the white stuff.
Things are starting to bloom a little and the grass is getting greener, bees are flying good now.
Sun is finally shining today after several days of rain and gloomy weather, nothing but mud around here.
Going to be up to about 70 F for the next couple of days but then the rain and gloom set back in.
Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: Tyler on March 15, 2015, 11:08:11 am: Ugh, we've gotten so much snow this winter, I'm sick of it! And it was just starting to melt away too :( forecast is calling for some rain in the week, so hopefully that will help clear some of this out...

Also, though I'm still up in Moncton for another month(We've got ridiculous amounts of snow here too, after this storm we'll have gotten nearly 4 meters of it this winter! I have a ground-floor room on campus, and my window is still mostly covered) :/ I was looking to clear out some brush the beginning of the month to prepare for a flower bed and mark where I'm hoping to set up shop this spring, but unfortunately there was too much snow to make the trek :sad: maybe snowshoes would be a good investment for next year...
Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: Slowmodem on March 15, 2015, 12:39:41 pm: Quote from: Perry on March 15, 2015, 10:20:32 am
Really??

Woke up to this today and it's just started. The driveway was clear and there was almost no snow on the shed roof.

Perry,

Have you seen the movie Groundhog Day?
Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: Perry on March 15, 2015, 01:30:28 pm: Quote from: Slowmodem on March 15, 2015, 12:39:41 pm
Perry,

Have you seen the movie Groundhog Day?

One of my favourites! :yes:
Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: Jen on March 15, 2015, 01:35:10 pm: (https://worldwidebeekeeping.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs3.postimg.cc%2Ft1x1x3u7j%2F98bde29488dff275eba759436bd96f4a0fa905f4fbe42cce.jpg&hash=0e250e3fbef6f540bc14c81ea1fa0f0c72524963) (http://postimg.cc/image/t1x1x3u7j/)
Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: iddee on March 15, 2015, 04:50:18 pm: Do you still claim you don't live in the tundra? :P
Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: Ray4852 on March 15, 2015, 05:03:20 pm: Its only mid March. I have a long ways to go before I’m done with snow. today I woke up to an inch of new snow with 30 mph wind. Temp was 25. I still have about a foot of frozen snow lift on the ground to melt. Next 5 days call for below normal temp with a slight warming by next weekend.
Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: Slowmodem on March 15, 2015, 05:42:58 pm: 74F (so far ) here today, forecast to be in the 70sF most of the week. Daffodils blooming and peach trees fixing to burst out, lots of red in the woods (maple or poplar?). Going to get the lettuce, spinach, and potatoes out this week. I'm ready for spring!!!!

Daffodils:

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Peach Tree buds:

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Lilac buds:

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Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: Jen on March 15, 2015, 06:14:27 pm: That's just downright cruel Slow! During one of the biggest storms in Nova Scotia, I posted a pic of some crocus in our yard and it just about put Perry over the edge :sad:
Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: iddee on March 15, 2015, 06:37:59 pm: 73 F. "22.7 C." here right now. We grafted queens today. Hive full of capped drone cells. Forecast is 77 F. tomorrow, 78 F. "25.5 C." Tuesday.
Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: Slowmodem on March 15, 2015, 08:31:35 pm: Quote from: Jen on March 15, 2015, 06:14:27 pm
That's just downright cruel Slow! During one of the biggest storms in Nova Scotia, I posted a pic of some crocus in our yard and it just about put Perry over the edge :sad:

Maybe he won't look.
Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: Perry on March 15, 2015, 08:39:23 pm: Too late! :P
Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: G3farms on March 16, 2015, 12:25:56 pm: Quote from: Slowmodem on March 15, 2015, 05:42:58 pm
Daffodils blooming and peach trees fixing to burst out, lots of red in the woods (maple or poplar?).

Maples, They just popped open here today.
The cedar trees look like the are smoking on fire, the pollen is tremendous.
Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: Jen on March 16, 2015, 12:45:16 pm: G3, that's funny you mention cedars. We have three nice cedars in our back alley. I have yet to see the bees gather pollen from them.
Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: Papakeith on March 16, 2015, 01:02:36 pm: You got snow, I got the rain. Much happier with the rain. I can almost see my front yard again
Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: Slowmodem on March 16, 2015, 09:55:37 pm: It got up to 82F here today. Me and Dad bush hogged the right of way on the new property and ran a disc harrow over some of it. I want to get white and yellow clover sewed before it starts raining Wednesday night. There should be lots of wild flowers coming up, too. Plus I want to get lavender started out there. So hopefully things are going in the right direction.

Dad starting the bush hogging:

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Dad with the disc harrow:

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You can even see the deer blind now that the weeds are mowed down:

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Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: Jen on March 16, 2015, 10:22:12 pm: Looks like dad is having a wonderful day :)
Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: Slowmodem on March 16, 2015, 10:28:08 pm: Quote from: Jen on March 16, 2015, 10:22:12 pm
Looks like dad is having a wonderful day :)

Yeah, he had fun. But the buzzards had other ideas:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkJKXd9-w_A&feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: Jen on March 16, 2015, 10:32:22 pm: We're not dead, we're just slow LOL
Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: Perry on March 17, 2015, 07:31:53 am: http://www.theweathernetwork.com/alerts/high-alert/canada/nova-scotia/wolfville

This mornings weather forecast. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: Spring in less than a week!
Post by: Slowmodem on March 17, 2015, 11:00:38 am: Quote from: Perry on March 17, 2015, 07:31:53 am
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/alerts/high-alert/canada/nova-scotia/wolfville

This mornings weather forecast. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I calculate 20 cm as 7.87402 in. Is that right? :eusa_think:

It IS the great white north! :o