Weather – Page 4 – Gracious Rain

May 9, 2013May 9, 2013

Ready Indeed

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We are sooo ready for this spring stuff to really truly get here and stay.

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The trees are flowering…

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and snowing petals everywhere.

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The periwinkle is blooming all over the place…

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and the crazy old blueberry bush has kicked back in.

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So much of the yard is cooperating just as it should…

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and the back grass is finally, FINALLY green.

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Yesterday the Bald Kid tilled up the garden patch and dug in all the old weed control newspapers that were still hanging around from last year.

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And I’m learning how to use my dad’s very cool composter to make our hard old Utah clay just a bit more wonderful.

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Pretty proud of our compose in progress–oh, do be proud of me.

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But the best part is that my little patch, the one that’s kinda mine, well, it’s getting an overhaul this week.

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We’re pulling out all the weeds and any other odd things we find, thinning the strawberries and trimming back the roses and planting a few perennial flowers here and there just because we want to.

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We’re pulling out the old broken wood border and replacing it with something…better (imagine me giggling my head off!).

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Oh, we’re ready all right to go out there and get to work making it all beautiful and orderly and crisp and tidy and flowery…

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tomorrow.

~sigh~

February 12, 2013February 12, 2013

Our Silly Snow

It may not look like all so much to you, but I’m pretty proud of this particular storm.

It came and stayed for about 3 days snowing first and sticking for a while, and then, raining and melting just in time to start all over again.

But in the end, it was very brave snow and just fell and hung on like it wanted to show us…

that no matter what that silly groundhog said, it is, in fact, winter still–with a mind of it’s own.

If you know me at all, you know that I don’t mind one little bit.

In fact, if I woke up tomorrow to 3 feet of the white stuff, I’d be happy as a lark.

And so, with the little that we have, I’m wishing for the frost fairies to make a couple more passes by the place…

or five or six.

I’m mean really, think of how much I could get done if we were snowed in…for real!

Heh, heh, heh.

January 28, 2013January 28, 2013

Sadly, I didn’t get a picture of the freezing rain that we’ve been dealing with for the past few days–and finally, FINALLY it’s starting to melt. We were admittedly too busy staying warm in the house to bother with the camera. But a couple of people got the slick adventure on tape. So here you go~

Sliding around on BYU Campus and a new way to get to class. :}

Just trying to get in the car. Poor girl. I think her friend in the car must have had enough of a time getting there that she knew enough to get out her camera. This one almost made me cry for laughing!

I did venture out for a minute one day and the shop clerk came running out to the parking lot to warn me that it was a “skating rink” and to be careful and take her arm.” I had visions of us both hitting the deck in a heap, but luckily, we made it in safe and sound. Crazy stuff.

Weatherman says to expect it to snow for the next two days…

straight.

Heh, heh.

January 5, 2013January 5, 2013

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November 12, 2012November 5, 2021

Complete White Out

Overnight the leaves on the giant willow tree in the backyard turned a gorgeous nearly-neon yellow, and started to fall. Oh, but not fast enough.

While I was frantically snapping the photos, the predicted snow started to fall and it got cold…fast.

I watched from the doorway for as long as I could, but look at the size of those flakes! Have one of them land on your bare neck and see how long you can take it. Brrrr…