Re: [gardeners] Frost!!!
Terry King (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:29:32 -0600
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:18:01 -0600, Margaret Lauterbach wrote:
>At 12:13 PM 8/17/98 -0600, you wrote:
>>On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:42:04 -0400, Cheryl & Erich Schaefer wrote:
>>
>>>You need a Schaefer Yarn frost blanket, Terry. :-) I'm always sorry to
hear
>>>about early frosts. The season is too short in the north as it is, wherever
>>>it is! And this year everything has come and gone so early and so fast
>>>(e.g. only a week or two of each type of berry) that I fear autumn will
be
>>>quite dull. Has anyone else heard predictions of a terrible winter to
come?
>>>Cheryl
>>>
>>>Cheryl Schaefer
>>>schaefer @epix.net
>>>Zone 5 in the fabulous Finger Lakes of NY
>>
>>Is this a new product Cheryl or a blanket I make from your gorgeous
yarns?
>>My, what a colorful picture that makes..A garden drapped in multicolored
>>afagans. :-D
>>
>>Terry
>>
>Weathermen did say El Nino is usually followed by La Nina which means
>unusual cold. We're about due for our ten-year (decad-ennial?) excursion
>below 20 degrees below zero F. Let 'er rip! Kill off some of our insex.
>Make believers out of the people who think we have zone 7 temps. Death
to
>euonymous-es! Margaret
I don't know but the squirrals have been very quiet. I don't feel like our
winter is too close but maybe it will sneak up on us. Another weird/eerie
thing was that our neighbor has been an infallible predicter of summer rains
every year but this one. Like clockwork within 3 days of his cutting his hay
it has *always* rained, before it could be baled. This year not one drop fell
until the hay was baled and removed from the field! This was at least a
week and a half. Truely weird! ;-Q
We've had more weasels around than usual too. FWTW. Even had one in
the house Saturday night. I think the cat brought it in and let it go. It hide
under the kitchen sink until all the animals in the house had lost interest. I
then heard something move around and went into the kitchen to see him
trying to figure out how to get back outside. Intelligent little creature. I
opened the door then stood across the room and kept the cats and dogs
away while he made his escape.
Terry