Good God, it’s 80 degrees out according to my weather sticker in the sidebar or it was when I began writing this post and I have to agree with that. I just came in from working out in the yard with Laurie’s youngest son, Kenny (he and his family live upstairs) and by the time we tied up the last ancient bush in the old hedge row (forgot what type of bush it is), we were sweating like it was midsummer. Seems kind of weird to have to watch where your stepping due to the last few remnants of the winter lurking in the shadowed areas. We still have a good pile of snow in and around our tent style shed out back.
80 degrees and slipping on icy snow…only in Vermont….or maybe Michigan too…who knows?
So here’s a few pics of our endeavors to finally rid all the creepers, trash plants and crap from what used to be a well manicured gardens full of bushes, mini-sunflowers and the occasional tulip. One in the middle of the yard with an old Silver Maple as the center piece and one out by the railroad bank where the miniature sunflowers will come to glory during the late summer through early Fall.
In the first 2 pictures above both areas around the Silver Maple and by the railroad bank (the guy with the rake is Kenny) used to be a solid mass of creepers, bamboo and trash plants. Laurie and I started working on it 2 years ago and all 3 of us at different times or together went at it once Ken and company arrived at the upstairs apartment.
And it felt like April in Virginia out there even though the lawn looked like it should really be around 55 degrees with a frigid wind blowing off the lake. grass must still be asleep. This should be the height of mud season for heavens sake but it looks more like late May to me and the weather folks are calling for nice days with the temps between the high 60′s to mid 70′s all the way through next Saturday.
So what is this? Global warming or something? The way things are going it will probably hit 112 degrees by the 1st of August with tropical rains every 3 days. Either that or Lake Memphremagog will dry up…all 27 miles of it.
Guess I can put away the snow blower now and pull out the old hammock, huh?
Don’t be fooled, dude. Our summer last year was in April, and the rest of the summer was grey and rainy! Enjoy the sunshine while you can, because there seems to be a bug in the etherial weather forecasting system.
I’ve written to Mother Nature (CEO of etherial weather) but she keeps referring me to her secretary which is never a good sign.
K8:
She did the same thing to me so I decided to sympathize with her secretary about how hard her job is what with taking care of all the irate Irish that keep calling up complaining about not having a summer last year. A lot of tsk-tsk’ing and “you poor thing’ing” on my part in hopes I can obtain some inside information. I’ll let you know how I make out.