Today's Weather in Your Garden - 7

Hooray! The temperature is 24°, and I am so thrilled to find that it's so warm outside! (Not that I'll be outside much today - LOL!)

The skies are cloudy with a very slight breeze from the South.

Dew Point: 20°
Humidity: 85%

Visibility: 5 miles
Barometric Pressure: 30.17 and steady

Sunrise: 7:07 Sunset: 4:14

Only two weeks until the Solstice!!

Yes, it is very sunny and 37 so we'll attack the asparagus field today.

Do you mound it up, pirl?

First all the stalks and fronds have to be cut back since they've gone brown, as usual. They go in the pile for chipping. Then it's weeding and mulching, then cocktails and dinner.

33 and overcast. Just for an update - I asked kiska her sunrise / set times. Sunrise 9:58 AM and sunset 3:37!!!!!! Mamma mia! How high can the sun get?

Ah!
I thought that you might create mounds over them, like the Germans do.

Mounds of compost?

I think she means mounds of whatever to make white asparagus. I had them in Paris. Yum!

My neighbor, of pure German heritage, bought the white ones but overcooked them.

They need total darkness to remain white so even with all the stalks light would come through and they'd be green. Once I had our own fresh asparagus I couldn't eat any we could even buy at farm stands. I love picking them 10 minutes before we eat them!

I used to have a few. I got you beat, pirl, cause they never made it inside. I couldn't wait that long-had to eat them raw. I should have planted them here. I miss gardening and eating as you weed.

I eat the skinny ones outside as I'm cutting others for dinner. We also eat the berries outside and I've never yet made a blueberry or raspberry pie from our own. The cherry tomatoes seldom make it inside - only if there's more than 100. Tomatoes, kissed by the sun, and still ever so slightly warm are pure heaven.

Mild, 34 and sunny for a while. I put some lights on a crabapple tree. Hopefully I will like the look once it is dark enough to see. Wrapped the individual branches.

Temp 42.4°, Wind WNW 10.2, Rh 52%, Baro 30.00 S, Dp28.3°

Sunny, slight haze.

Generally busy day 4/me today. Heavier traffic than usual out there due to Xmas shopping no doubt.

...just wanted to add this link. ☺

http://www.thecompassgroup.biz/merryxmas.swf



This message was edited Dec 8, 2007 3:47 PM

Deb - please show us your crabapple tree!

Not quite as high up as I should have gone, but my balance is terrible, and I went as high as I felt safe on a step ladder. Oh well, maybe next year I'll get more height in the branches.

Very nice: very artsy!

Very nice. In the middle, just above where the two 'arms' go up, I see what looks like two eyes, a nose and a mouth!

I see a graceful hand.

Start at the orange color to the left - I guess from a house, and move straight across. In the middle of the trunk, your cursor will hit the 'mouth'.

Thanks everyone, Victor I do see a face!

That's lovely, Deb! Thanks for risking your neck to share that with us. I think it looks terrific!

Send your hubby to take the shot next time!

Taking the pic was no trouble, putting the lights up was risky for me as I am accident prone. DH was busy today, so I just decided to put them up. First time trying stringing lights like that, maybe I'll get a bigger ladder out tomorrow and try to get them up higher.

Careful, Deb!! It looks really good to me just as it is!

Deb - it looks great! Eleanor

Deb, I think they look great just as they are, no need to go higher!

Thanks again all, DH just told me the same thing...

I agree - they're high enough!

Deb,
That's so great! I love how you have gracefully lit the tree.
Thank you for sharing, and risking your neck for us.

red sky in the morning
Today's weather:
Current temp: 17°
Winds are calm

The sky is ablaze ... the photo kinda washed out the color
Winter storm advisory for the overnight with sleet and freezing rain

Dew Point: 13°
Barometric Pressure: 30.45 and (you guessed it) falling

Visibility is 8 Miles
The humidity is 83%

It's gonna be a wild night!!

Beautiful photo Candyce!! It's about the same here...snow predicted for tonight into tomorrow.
18°
Feels Like: 11°
Barometer: 30.37 in and rising
Humidity: 56%
Visibility: 10 mi
Dewpoint: 7°
Wind: NW 5 mph
Sunrise: 7:03 am
High: 26°
Low: 17°

Thanks, pixie. I had to take it quickly as the brilliant colors were fading so fast!
How come, I wonder, your barometric pressure is rising, and mine is falling.
Ah! The wonders of Mother Nature.

Beautiful, Candyce. 32 here and cloudy. We're in for an ice storm later on.

Candyce - that is such a beautiful photo!! Eleanor

(Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning - is that red sky a sign of things coming our way tonight_

Thanks.
Yeah. Another messy one which says that the kids may not have school tomorrow.

Candyce - What a spectacular picture! I think you captured the color nicely, even though it may have been even brighter in person. I like the way you took the shot through the stark tree branches.

My camera battery is dead and so I missed a really pretty sunset shot tonight. The sun looked HUGE and like it was a big fireball.

Oh, Man - snow again for so many of you? At least the kids can stay home and get excited looking at the lighted Christmas tree!! I have loved snow days my entire adult life......wonderful found time!....didn't get many of those after I left teaching though.

Pirl - I think this goes opposite with your wearing your winter coat earlier every year.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nfl_meteorologists_warn_steaming

C'mon Louise - you need better excuses than a dead battery.

Very funny, Al.

Al - the point escaped me. Maybe there's not enough contrast with my blonde hair.

39 here and no wind but it's wet outside.

32 and luckily, not the bad ice that was predicted. More rain this week.

Maybe we should all have our dentist speak for us.