Cold weather

Originally Posted by Lucille

A sunny 63 here. I started tomato plants late this year so they are small. Went to WalMart to get coffee and they had beautiful big tomato plants for sale so I bought some.
THIS year, I'm waiting for the lfd to plant, I remember in recent years being seduced into planting by good weather and a late hard freeze killed a bunch of my baby plants.

overcast in the AM, sunny and warm in the PM in the SF Bay Area.
I am starting my seeds this week and keep the baby sprouts in the greenhouse until later in March, late frost risk (if any) being my motive.
I'm beginning to wonder if there will be any water to keep them alive this summer. Perhaps Combatwombat or Joe can ship me some of that snow, lol.
Seriously though, try and keep warm.

PS, blame Siberia for the cold air, Canada was just the middleman

Originally Posted by WebSlave

Ouch! And here I am whining because it got down to 27.5 degrees last night and the forecast is for around 20 degrees tonight. It's probably not going to get over 45 degrees at all today, which is pretty unusual for these parts.

Honestly, I can't think of ANY reason for me to ever travel up north in the Winter months. As for ever LIVING back up there again, well, that just is not going to happen. Wild horses, and all that.....

Tomorrow at work I have to go up on roof and find a leak. Through 3 or more foot of snow and ice! How the heck it is leaking in this weather I do not know. My building sits on top of a hill and is chilly in spring and fall. This should be fun, lol.

Originally Posted by JColt

Tomorrow at work I have to go up on roof and find a leak. Through 3 or more foot of snow and ice! How the heck it is leaking in this weather I do not know. My building sits on top of a hill and is chilly in spring and fall. This should be fun, lol.

Wow! That's a lot of weight on your roof. Be careful up there.

Addendum to last post: And your having water leaking through the roof likely means that the bottom layer against the roof is just mush. So it might slide off if you have a substantial slope. Don't let an avalanche take you with it to the ground.

Flat roof and cheapest one money can buy. Rubber with river rock holding it down. 10 year warranty and it's 25 yrs old. Leak is near where 60 foot drop is if you fall off the side. On other side of roof it's 30 foot but concrete. The wind is what get's you. A few times I thought I would fly off the roof. I keep telling them we need new roof but they are content to spending money on quick fixes and ceiling tiles out the wazoo.

We have to get our roof fixed come the spring..but I don't want to think about it right now.

but right now...this is whats going on in my neck of the woods

Man..... Imagine how bad it would be if we weren't deep within this disastrous period of "global warming". Mind numbing, to say the least......

Went down to 23.8 degrees on our front porch last night. Finally got over 50 degrees this afternoon, but it was obviously a struggle. By Sunday they are calling for a high of 77 degrees around here.

The Japanese magnolia blooms are history. Connie says it looks like the blooms on the apple trees and peach trees are kind of OK. The older opened blooms took a hit, but the new ones not opened up fully seem to be unscathed.

I hope that was Winter's last gasp here.

warmed up to 18 degrees. Snow storm now.....

It's going to be 74 today, I ordered some mulch from the tree company