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songbird wrote:

it's been cold here. spring is trying, just slowly gaining
ground this year. we might hit 50F sometime this week. a few
nights still below freezing.

We hit 70 a while back - and zero more recently. 34 this morning. I'm
afeared it will another bad fruit year (last year was the odd-ball
bumper-crop year) since odds are good the night at zero after all the
early warmth had a negative impact on the flower buds - but that remains
to be confirmed in time.

I suspect it's been a terrible sap year as well (I'm not tapped this
year) as we've only had short stretches of suitable weather, and long
runs of too cold or too warm, and the too warm brings out the buds which
makes an end of useful sap.

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