Spring - Maybe

[George Shirley]

Noticed this morning returning from my ophthalmology appointment that the oak trees are budding up. The kumquat tree was frost bit last month and has dropped some leaves but is budding out again. The pear and fig haven't started leafing out as yet. I did get out and prune the pear tree so I suspect it will probably start flowering next month if not sooner.

Finally decided to get handicap plates and not use hang tags anymore. Doctors think I need to use a cane regularly now and they suspect I will be in a wheel chair in a few more years and I hope they're wrong about the wheel chair and I really hope I get a few more years.

The dawg still has allergies and takes some expensive meds that don't seem to be working. I follow her around with tissues as the Boss Lady gets PO'ed when the dawg snots on the furniture and floors. She wasn't upset that children, grands, and great grands dropped something on the floor.

Spring is nearly sprung and I can't wait.

George

[Frank]

Little concerned with warm days here as they are too early and buds on fruit trees like peach can be lost resulting in a poor crop.

[songbird]

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and also if they don't have enough chill time to begin with i don't think they do well.

we're still getting below freezing temperatures some nights so i'm hoping that will keep the trees and plants from budding out too early.

a few years ago most of the state lost the fruit crops because of an early bloom and then killing frosts. i don't have any fruit trees to worry about.

songbird

[George Shirley]

This early in January we had two back to back 21 degree F freezes. Don't think that here in SE Texas will drop another freeze this month or the next. Those were the only hard freezes since 12/2012. None of the trees were hit hard, just enough to drop leaves and the pear never lost all of it's leaves.

[Terry Coombs]

Well , maybe it is and maybe it ain't ... it's 82? here today , and I picked up some starter cells and a bag of potting soil while I was in town for the wife's cold pills . I figger on starting some 'maters and maybe some peppers in a week or so , haven't really thought much about it yet .

[George Shirley]

84F was the high today, we actually got some rain today as the cars were both wet a bit when I went out. More rain on the way but sparse. Our zip code is 77375 if anyone wants to look at our weather. Generally we get a lot of rain most years, a couple of times we've gotten over 100 inches in a year, even without a hurricane, more if we have a few hurricanes. We've rode out a few ourselves but, at our age now, we run north to a friends place near the Arkansas\Louisiana border.

Supposed to be hot again tomorrow.

George