What Season Is It?

We seem to be in a winter storm Thursday pattern.  And maybe a thunderstorm Tuesday.  It’s crazy.

Sunset after last Thursday’s snow

And we keep going between snow and mud.

Goats weren’t happy their pasture was covered again on Saturday morning.

I have to say, I’m really not a fan of the snow storm during the work week part–it’s been some pretty dicey driving.  In fact, I almost stopped and came home Friday morning, but I didn’t.

By Sunday morning, everyone was out in pasture again.

On my way home that afternoon, there was a pickup on its side in the median right where I thought about turning around.  (Kinda wish I’d gone and taken a picture of that.)

The goats try to find places where they don’t have to be in mud.

As soon as it’s done snowing, it melts.

Popcorn trying to keep his hooves dry.

Last Tuesday we had probably between a half to three-quarts of an inch of ran.

What do you mean my beak is a muddy mess?

That means mud.

Ms. Goose is the only one who likes the mud.

She’s not quite as happy that when it got cold her pool froze and its still solid and stuck to the ground.  Hopefully, I can get it taken care of soon.  Because she needs a bath again!

My maple tree is not supposed to be budding out in February.  That’s insane.

And this week is looking like it will have a similar pattern.

If we have to have the bad weather, I think I’d even rather have it on the weekends, so I don’t have to drive.

More Thoughts on Extreme Weather

This week our weather appears to be pretty normal.  There is snow on the ground.  It’s winter coat weather.

Trace (Penelope behind)

Sky

And it’s also not so cold that I have goats in the garage.

Dolly

I have to say, I’m so frustrated with the crazy swings in weather.  My fears from our stupid cold spell in December seem to be coming true.

Mr. Peacock

Mr. Peacock seems to have frozen his toes.

I think it’s just one foot and I’m not sure how much he’s going to lose.  I hope he can still get around better once he doesn’t have dead toes hanging on.

This is the kind of thing that I never had to deal with until the last three winters.  I don’t want the extreme swings to be the new normal. I’m not equipped for it.  But look what happens for the end of the month. At least it’s still above zero.

It looks like it will continue for the first few days of February as well. Then it just keeps going with the ups and downs for the rest of the month.

Crazy Weather

I tell you, the last month or so of weather has been crazy.  We were in a moderate drought.  I think I mentioned that we were finally getting some rain.

Astra, Myson, Bambi and Ava in front wishing they didn’t have to go through the mud last Saturday.

We actually had eight days in a row with rain.  Some were just sprinkles, but we had over two inches of rain throughout that time. It was enough to make a lot of mud.

Litha trying not to walk in mud

But it didn’t even change our standing on the drought monitor.  We’re still in moderate drought; although it is better for some parts of the state.  I was hoping we’d be upgraded to just “abnormally dry”.

Then we got hot.  We spent the first part of last week in the low eighties with horrible humidity.  I will say, it makes the grass and weeds grow.  I can’t even keep up.

Where I lost the magnolia tree is just out of control.

Then there was more rain. Sometime in there, my soybeans got planted because they are coming up quite nicely.

soybeans

My garden is coming to life, but I can’t get in there to take care of weeds.

That is one big garden. All those weeds calling my name…

tomatoes, peppers, cabbages, and lots of weeds

zucchini

potato

onion

sweet corn (you can get more in a crooked row)

The first rain also let me see who was visiting my garden.  It was dried up and hard to see by the time I got took my pictures, but there was a raccoon clipping the corner of the garden.  Then there were coyote and deer tracks as well.

colored corn in a coyote paw print

The deer sank deep!

My asparagus took off with the rains.

asparagus

In fact, some of it might have gotten ahead of me and gone to seed.

asparagus

The end of the week saw much cooler weather.  You can’t see Friday’s high temperature of 50°F, but it was a record low high for this date.  Seriously, it’s the end of May.  It’s Memorial Day weekend.  We are not supposed to have a frost advisory. Luckily, I think everything is okay.

But look at the end of the forecast–back up to almost ninety!  That’s crazy!

And an update since I wrote the post yesterday.  This morning, I managed to get the whole garden cultivated and the yard around it mowed (after the picture was taken).  One more yard to go this weekend (and we’ll see if I actually get any more weeding done in the garden.