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Winter Arrived!

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Ok now we’re having typical January weather. A snow and Ice storm through Sunday evening and all day Monday has left the streets, lawns and my garden covered with a couple of inches of snow.

Temperatures have also dropped this week. All day it’s been -10 C (14 F), and overnight Wednesday it’s going down to -15 c (5 F). These are the normal January temperatures that I was talking about in an earlier post.

Now all I can hope is that “real” winter doesn’t last more than a week. I’ve been spoiled by our very green December and January.






The snow stayed this time!

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Darn! I write about how it’s been snowing on and off each morning for the past few days and guess what? It snowed a tiny bit yesterday evening and I guess it snowed a tiny bit in the night and unfortunately it’s been cool enough all day for the snow to stay on the ground.

It’s been melting away quickly before this … but now it’s staying. Boo Hoo.

I’ve had roses continue to bloom through the month of November.

Don’t get me wrong, it hasn’t been warm here, although we have had a few nice warm days here and there. Nope it’s just my crazy roses don’t know when to shut themselves off, and before you ask the last time I deadheaded any of them was the beginning of August so they’ve had plenty of time to get the message and shut down for winter.

Finally those lovely miraculous blooms are drooping. I thought I might continue to look out the window and be amazed at the perfect flowers for a while yet, but I guess last nights snow and cool temps finally got to them.

I haven’t put my garden to bed yet!

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Slap me! I’ve got bulbs to plant and bushes to trim, perennials to cut down and a whole garden to put to bed for the winter. The weather was pretty nice here all week too.

Did I get any gardening done? Nope!

Now watch, I’ll find time sometimes to get all that work done- and believe me- it is work as it take 3 to 5 days to properly get everything away, trimmed, mulched and covered for winter, and the weather will turn cold on me. God forbid it will probably snow.

Won’t I be the fool for not getting it done earlier when I should have?

I can’t help it though. I just don’t feel well lately and the thought of going out there and doing all that stuff is too much for me right now. If I don’t feel better soon there’s a chance that a good portion of it won’t get done properly either. Oh my husband will do his share but he doesn’t really know everything that has to be done. He always helps me but I’m the team leader in the garden.

Fingers crossed that the weather holds for a few days more so I can get the gumption to get out there and do the work that needs to be done!

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