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Re: The first sign of spring?
« Reply #20 on: April 08, 2025, 04:49:55 PM »
It's in the 30s here more days than not, if not for a high, then the low. It's only 34 right now and supposed to warm up ro 37 for a couple of hours before gets dark and colder again. :(  Up to the mid-60s next week then cooling off again. It's a roller-coaster spring that feels like winter. Almost. 
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Re: The first sign of spring?
« Reply #21 on: April 25, 2025, 08:47:23 PM »
Yesterday I had tulips and grape hyacinth blooming. The daffodils always bloomed and died back before the tulips bloomed, but not this year. They're just setting there doing nothing. I don't get it. A couple days before that, there wasn't even a grape hyacinth plant in the yard. The temp was in the 80s and BAM! It just appeared out of nowhere, flowers and all. Lots of white clover around it judging by the leaves, but it's green so I don't car. I was told today that they smell really good, but I never knew they even had a smell. Maybe tomorrow I'll crawl around and find out. CAFO! ;) I should have taken pics after I mowed today, but didn't. I mowed around it instead of over it this time. The star-of-Bethlehem in the back yard never bloomed and all got mowed down.

Same stuff, different year.
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Re: The first sign of spring?
« Reply #22 on: Yesterday at 05:39:40 PM »
I took some better pictures today. I took 3 of everything and picked one that was in focus and/or centered better than the other two. The grape hyacinth was really in focus in this one. I still haven't gotten down there to smell it. Some of my tulips on the south side of the porch are doing great, but the tulips and daffodils on the north side aren't ready yet. That's typical because they're in the shade all the time. But the daffodils should bloom weeks before the tulips, and none of them have. I noticed in the picture there's lamb's quarter, AKA fat-hen, goosefoot, or wild spinach growing in the bare dirt against the steps. I should harvest it when it's small and tender and eat it. I don't much care for the taste of raw spinach but have lots of salad dressing to make it taste better. I don't know what the heck is going on with the other tulips and daffodils, 10 feet or so from the tulips that are blooming. There are daffodils next to the tulips in the middle of the 4th pic.

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Re: The first sign of spring?
« Reply #23 on: Yesterday at 06:44:09 PM »
When I finally got around to attending college, I quickly learned that the first sign of spring was when the girls broke out the spandex. The second thing I learned was that all spandex should come with a weight and size limit. One size may fit all, but one size shouldn't fit all.
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Re: The first sign of spring?
« Reply #24 on: Yesterday at 07:51:30 PM »
thunderstorms today. 
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Re: The first sign of spring?
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Re: The first sign of spring?
« Reply #25 on: Yesterday at 08:15:06 PM »
Quote from: MikeBjerum on Yesterday at 06:44:09 PM
When I finally got around to attending college, I quickly learned that the first sign of spring was when the girls broke out the spandex. The second thing I learned was that all spandex should come with a weight and size limit. One size may fit all, but one size shouldn't fit all.

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