May 2, 2026
Yes...snowflakes. The odd white fluff is drifting down today.
'Nuff said.
We had a couple of warm, sunny days where tree blooms and spring shoots jumped...then it cooled right down and everything stalled. I did get my onion sets in early in the week, and if you look carefully now, you can see some bravely poking their heads up a tiny bit. Peas are in and the brassica bed is broad-forked, and the planting holes prepped. One of my baby plum trees will be a bevvy of blossom, as there are tons of little growing bloom bumps on it. The other, twice deer denuded, is showing nothing, still in shock from last spring.
We've had a busy week, started to make an inroad on the wood to be split and piled, and the big one...replacing our 20 year old solar panel array with new, bi-facial panels. Because these panels are bigger, new mounting holes had to be drilled in the aluminum frame, and it just happens that some of the needed holes lined up with the steel cross-bracing, so the panels are not aligned nicely like the old array, but hey.. it works! We ran into a few glitches, but Hubby has worked them out.
So, from this...
to this...
Last week's Bird Cam caught a few interesting posers.
and a Junco, giving the camera a side-eye.
I can see that there have been tufts pulled out of the wool roving ball tied up on the tree branch, so someone is busy making a nest somewhere.
All the garden plants are doing well under lights, most have been up-potted and it amazes me that I can still get everyone under light with a bit of rearranging, and a few flats of plants on window sills.
Now that the panels are installed, it will be back to the 'chopping block' to complete filling the woodshed before the biting insects arrive.
Talk of snow and biting insects is going to give your Shangri-la a bad name!
ReplyDeleteAll part of the continuous seasonal changes! All good. The birds have to eat also.
DeleteWe saw a couple of flakes while we were at Vito's having lunch. Fortunately it didn't last. My son reported he was cutting firewood in the falling snow where he lives north of Lindsay!
ReplyDeleteWe can hope that that was the last of them!
DeleteWe have quite a few years to go before we need to replace our panels, but it struck me that I know nothing about the changes in them. Technology changes faster than I care to run after it!
ReplyDeleteThe old panels were 230W, the new ones are 445W. They will also be more efficient in winter, as the white snow will reflect light up onto the back of them. Hope they will last as long as we will need them!
DeleteI'm glad the snowflakes found you and didn't come here! Though the late cool spring is prolonging the blooming period for Daffs and Forsythia.
ReplyDeleteUsually the biting insects are out mid-May. Unless it warms up really fast, that will not be the case this spring!
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