2021 March - In Like a Lion

March 1st was extremely windy. This was a sustained wind with gust over 60 MPH that shook the house. Although the pellet stove was keeping it a nice 69* inside, the screaming wind made it sound colder. I was reading and the youngsters snuggled in around me. Luckily, and for a change, my phone was sitting on the coffee table

I was getting ready to place the phone back on the table, when Spot looked up all sleepily, and just too cute.

Still waiting for warm enough weather for melting the snow pack. I'm watching other people in NH post pictures of their tulip greens emerging and this is what I have (taken Friday morning).

Then I found this neat little map on the interwebz at WeatherStreet.

I'm at 12-14" (measured yesterday afternoon along the back pathway shown in the picture).

Although we are having highs in the 20's and low 30's, the wind is still active (not howling like on 3/1 thankfully, but still giving a wicked wind chill), We are supposed to have a couple of single digit mornings before warming up in the middle of the week. The talk is of 50* weather, maybe up to 60. I'll have to remember to install the drain pipe for the garage sump pump so it is deposited away from the house. Naturally the weather is supposed to go back downhill for next weekend.

Oh yea, almost forgot, I ordered some tomato and pepper starts, along with cuke seeds yesterday. They should be arriving in May.

Last year I bought starts from local garden stores, but that meant I had to take what was offered. By ordering from Totally Tomatoes, I was able to choose what I will get. Their selection of starts is limited (the seeds they offer are abundant), I was happy to see the Amish Paste Tomato on the list, but at least I could research the other offerings to determine the best for my needs.

Comments

[Cop Car]

Your kitchen garden should be abundant. Yay! The only things that I've ordered for spring planting are 2 trees ordered last fall (redbud and cherry) and 3 milkweed plants. In another week, I'll run up to Hillside Nursery to buy my gamble kitchen garden plants.

You make it sound a bit cool, up there. We had gusts into the 60s the other day; but, we are mostly gusting 10-40 mph. It was breezy for my walk, just now (48F when I left the house & 15 mph I'm guessing); but, that was good. For once, I didn't even come close to overheating during my walk - only after I came inside. I nearly wore a light-weight vest over my elbow-length-sleeves knit shirt and knit crop pants; but, fortunately, I decided against it.

[Cop Car]

Don't rat me out to the youngsters - that I failed to mention their cuteness, right up front. As always, they are darling and you got great photos. Snuggle 'em for me.

[bogie]

Winds are still active, if only in the 10-20 MPH range most of the time. Friday night they started howling again with 30+ MPH sustained winds. I don't think we reached the 60MPH gusts but it still woke me up several times.

[Cop Car]

You may not recall; but, during the first week that we spent (in an apartment) in Seattle, the newspaper carried huge, front-page headlines about the "big blow". People had been awakened in the night by the 40 mph wind. Being from Kansas, we had slept right through it.

You must have been the recipient of the howling winds that we experienced on Tuesday - same magnitudes. They didn't wake me, but I lay in bed listening to them. (Being in the basement is an advantage for me.)

[bogie]

When the winds get up speed, the bay windows in front of the house create enough disturbance that it creates a whistling sound and that is what wakes me. Those winds Friday night were not enough to get the house to shaking though, thus my reasoning that gusts didn't hit the 60MPH from previously.

[bogie]

BTW - it's cute that you think Kansas wind has much of an impact on NH :). Most of our high winds come from cold fronts moving down from Canada (that was what Friday night's wind was about), or Nor'Easters coming up the coast. Although there are times the jet stream will bring bits of your weather to us, your weather from mid last week went well south of us.

[Cop Car]

That's what I always aim for: cute!