Month: December 2017

We have a good cold front coming our way. Its now Saturday evening, we had a high of 63, we’ve dropped down to 47 and its still dropping. The temperature is due to drop another 10 degrees tonight. Tomorrow, New Years Eve we’re due to get down to 23. It doesn’t get much better for a few days. Starting Sunday night, and on thru Thursday night the evening low will be in the low 20’s. Monday and Tuesday during the day will be right about freezing. Welcome to central Texas winter.

At this time we’re hoping we’ve got the entire yard ready for this cold. Pat helped get the yard ready. He drained hose bibs and drained hose lines. Today we went thru and covered those hose bibs that were attached to the house. We made sure the hoses are disconnected. We also looked for standing water and dumped it. That seemed like a good idea. With this kind of cold any standing water will freeze. And I don’t want to worry about it freezing, expanding, and breaking something.

Since Christmas was just a couple of days ago, I got the doggies blankets, for inside the house, and jackets for walking outside the house. I wasn’t able to get them shoes or socks, but we’re are covering some areas with towels so help keep their tootsies from freezing. At this point that’s the best I can do. Now we just hope for the best.

I’ll keep you posted.

Its been an interesting month. I was gone early this month, and it snowed while I was gone. Not for long, but it was enough to stick. Apparently it went from record high to snow the next day. then it warmed back up. That is a true cold front. Well, we’ve gone from warm to cold. It dropped 30 degrees the other day. It went from the mid 70’s to the low 40’s.

That was on Friday. Last night Christmas Eve we got cold again. It got down to 30. We’ll be cold, for Texas, staying in the 40’s, and we’re expecting rain. So it will be a cold rain. No great warmth coming this way for the next few days. At least the fruit trees will be happy. The garden has gone into winter time cold. That will be good.

I don’t know how long this cold will last, but I’m glad it finally came. The only bad thing is with cold the mountain cedar will begin producing pollen. That’s the way cedars are. They need cold, then a warm spell in order to produce pollen. And they those conditions here in Texas.

Welcome to wonderful Texas weather.

Its almost December and the temperatures are in the balmy 70’s, some days hitting 80. The garden is growing, squash is still on the vine, even the roses are still blooming.

WHAT HAPPENED TO WINTER!!

Well, winter will show up some time. We’ve been preparing the yard for its arrival. We’ve begun pulling up the tomatoes, removing the beans, and putting in new seeds. We’ve been moving plants around. We have some dead trees along the fence line, they need to come out. We have some trees around the fruit trees that also need to come out. Since the fruit trees are doing well, no reason to keep shade or wind trees around them for protection. So the spare trees are being taken out and planted elsewhere. Actually the spare trees are being moved to replace the dead ones along the fence line. Seemed a reasonable action.

I admit I have a fear. We’re having such mild weather, I’m afraid when winter comes it will hit with a vengeance. Even if we only get cold weather for a short time, I’m worried the temps will drop into the 20’s and we won’t be fully prepared. Last year we got about 5 days of 20 degree weather. I had some things freeze (outside PVC pipes). I would rather not have a repeat of that again.

Pat has been over the past two months helping and he says he has the yard winter ready. Let’s hope that’s true.