The temps are what I would consider normal for this area. We have had a few much warmer falls and the geese have seemed to be confused the last few years--flying north for months when they should have been heading south... I was just thinking last week that I might worry about an up coming very cold winter. The geese are going south already.
It's currently 55 degrees in Henderson/Las Vegas area at 9AM and people here are saying "That's too cold!" If it was 100 degrees or hotter, everyday of the year here, people would love it. We don't, but we are very much the minority for that. Reno, where we most likely will move to, is 33 degrees, and that don't bother us. We have all of the winter weather clothes we need.
16 F. this morning and clear. Very dark in the morning now. We noticed it since we returned from Pennsylvania. Geese have already gone, and it seems most of the ducks have also fled south. The swans are the last to go and we haven't seen them since we got back, but they may still be here as they usually don't leave until the water is frozen.
No, not really. The temps are not unusual here, and we almost always have snow on the ground by Halloween. The last couple winters haven't been cold by our standards, but there has been large amounts of snow early, which has been good for the plants as it insulates the roots from the severe cold that will come later. Our coldest temperature at this location since we have been here was -52 F. in 1995 and that was at Thanksgiving. People have told us the coldest here was -73 F. in 1989 but we weren't here then and I tend to doubt that temperature since normal thermometers stop at -60 F. Our usual coldest time is January into February, and the weather generally breaks around the first week in March when temps below 0 F. become less common and light gets better. I attended a program by a member of the American Rose Society a couple weeks ago. He said he thought he knew about roses...then he moved to Alaska and found he knew nothing about growing roses here. He said people in Minnesota told him to just use the techniques they use; he replied that, although Minnesota gets cold temps, thye aren't cold nearly as long and his ground is still frozen solid at the end of May when the roses in Minnesota are budding.
Oh my and I was cold this morning at 45 F. So much so that I put my clothes and socks in the dryer then put them on.
I do that in the winter, too, @Marie Mallery ! Warm sweatshirts feel so good when it is so cold outside. This house is always freezing in the winter, and I get cold really easy now. I always dread the cold of winter, but I can’t breathe good in the hot, humid summers, either. I miss living in Idaho or Washington, where at least we had nice summer days, but I would have to hibernate all winter from the cold out there now.
Mary I hope not the weather has caused enough havoc on people lately. I'm sure your as prepared for it as you can get. What is also bad are fires.
We walked over 4 km yesterday the wind was freezing ( for spring ) it was 30+ c on Thursday prior to the reported tornado that was reported in parts of SA that resulted in us not having any power for 13 hours …. I was getting worried about our freezer that's always full , I’ve got a upright one with 6 shelves and a large drawer and I looked at it yesterday regarding an rough estimate of the value of food in it …and while it’s hard to put a value on homemade foods like soups / stews / fruit / spinach turnovers/ cake id estimated I’d have $700 + in value of foods in the freezer ……. and that’s not counting what I have in the freezer part of the kitchen freezer part ( I’ve got my upright freezer in the laundry )
Yes, we live in the woods. No one is burning around here lately as it has been real dry again. I was thinking of doing a pile I have at the end of the drive at the farm. But still just thinking...
Home made is worth more than store bought to me. I have an old down cover on my chest freezer and can put on more if I need to. My problem is keeping hubby from opening the door of the fridge.