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Old 07-01-2017, 07:44 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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On 1/7/2017 7:13 AM, Terry Coombs wrote:
George Shirley wrote:
Here it is at 0630 and the thermometer is showing 21F and I will be
out there at sunrise checking the garden and also taking a look at the
faucets I forgot to cover last night. Getting old and senile is
slightly better than being in the ground. G

I suspect some of the fruit trees, like the kumquat and the pear, will
now lose their leaves. They need pruning anyway so guess that's not a
problem. I am hoping the fall garden will make it through the freeze.
First time to have a hard freeze since we moved back to Texas in 2012
and I'm not really fond of coldness. Especially when it's 24F and
overcast from what I can see in the dark out there. Dog went out to do
her business and did it very quick. BG

This is the first hard freeze we've had since we moved back to Texas.
Actually this is the first freeze of any kind here in the last five
years. I do despise cold weather, I turn into a really old 77 year old
man when I'm cold. All my joints are hurting and I walk like I'm 100
years old. Been worked hard and put up cold to many times for this
stuff. G

George and Tilly Dawg, Boss lady is still snoring.


It's 6° here , and Maxie-poo* and I had to swap in a new lpg bottle on the
cookstove first thing this morning so the Mrs could heat water for tea ...
there's about 3" of snow on the ground and the roads are covered with ice .

I'm sure glad I'm not where you are. Propane, my folks were on butane,
then propane for about thirty years with a natural gas pipeline just
outside their property. After thirty years on propane the gas company
finally figured out that the small community my folks were in could
actually be customers. Go figure.

We just passed 32F a couple of hours, tomorrow the temps will be back in
the forties and fifties. Weird weather for us.