Good Grief!

It just seems like it will never end.  We've had another 4" of snow overnight. 

Aftermath

After a good rain yesterday, the snow is finally gone.  Things are alive, but not everything looks good.

The carrots look great.

But the kale, chard and lettuce look a little beat up.

Snow Part 6 (!)

Here we are again.  This is the sixth snow storm this winter.  And frankly, it's getting old.

A couple of weeks ago we had night time temperatures in the low 20s, so we moved the citrus into the garage.  It was too late for the lemon, although it may come back.  But the mandarin looks OK.  I picked all of the remaining fruit.  They were mostly very small, about golf ball size.  But they tasted really good.


This is three of them in a small bowl.

And More Snow!

We've had about five inches since yesterday morning.

Snow!

Last night we watched 'White Christmas' and today we have snow.  Not a lot, but enough to make it pretty and close the schools.

Leaving the Snow Behind

We're leaving in a couple of hours, and none too soon.  We have ten inches of snow and it's still coming down.  It's lovely, but what a mess.

Gardening among the Snowflakes

With just four days to go before we leave, and the weather turning sharply colder, I decided that today was the day to finish the last of the weeding in the front gravel.  I did get it finished, but it's been snowing lightly all day.

 Yesterday we decided it was time to take down the bamboo on the back fence.  When we put it up, we were aware that one of the fence posts was a bit wobbly.  But over the winter the fence has developed a definite list.  So the bamboo is gone.  After we fix the fence, we'll have to come up with some sort of diversion to at least partially block the house behind us.

Snow

Today we had about an inch of snow.  But the cover over the lettuce is still standing.  I haven't looked inside yet.  But tonight we're expected to go down to 12 degrees, and 7 tomorrow night, so I'm assuming the lettuce will be mush.

So far the citrus trees have been hanging in there, but I think 12 degrees is too much to ask.  So we moved them into the garage for a while.

We had one of the pipes to the drip system burst.  I'm not sure why, because we did drain the lines (we thought).  Obviously, something went wrong.  Let's hope it's the only one that breaks.

We've had tons of birds, mostly juncos.  I filled the feeder this morning, and it was almost emptied by evening.   They're also out poking around in the yard.

Tiny footprints:

We've had one Anna's hummingbird sitting by the feeder all day.  I'm not sure if she's guarding it or just finding shelter.