My thermometers say 23 on the Accuwrong, 29 on my hvac control, and 30 on Wunderground. Hard to believe the middle of my back yard is that cold. So I'm not betting on Accuwrong.
Regardless, it's cold out there....
Never got to planting carrots yesterday. Was like pulling the loose string end and it all unraveled...started picking up sticks and cleaning out ditches and four hours later the place looked better but I was cold and that was enough.
My favorite garden whisperer, the parts guy at the Kubota dealer, tells me locals were caught unawares by this low temps, but not to worry about my snow peas, if they looked ragged, and the larger ones do, he said it was the 35mph winds that beat them up, not so much the cold.
We shall see this morning.
Am working hard on remarrying a friend I got divorced from.
ooooh, bet that got your attention...
Yeah, a fifth wife. Except this one is bright red.
Most of you have heard the story about my having to leave my second tractor behind when I moved to NC, since the mover didn't have room on his trailer for both tractors. Heart rending moment to look at my Case IH 255 that I had lovingly restored (including a $6k repair bill) and leave it behind, though not really. I donated it back to my church from where it came.
Two weeks ago the caretaker sent me a video of him starting "my" old tractor. Cold tractor, revs it up, and worse....in four years no one has washed that poor thing. Sixteenth of an inch of crud all over it, though at least it was in a covered open (Quaker) shed. It's hardly ever used.
As the hair stood up on my neck watching it, I decided there was room for one more. I want my old tractor back before it gets ruined there, just the wrong tractor for the church. They need a little BX with a FEL or maybe the smallest L. They need to push snow in the winter and haul sticks in the summer. So....I am on the hunt for a used Kubota to donate to the Meeting so I can get my tractor back.
Have contacted three dealers, including the one I used to frequent in PA near the church to be on the lookout for trade ins that would work. Kubota is the only local tractor dealer up there, area is surburbanized and all big ag has left. It's too bad, down here Masseys and NH are all over, but the caretaker at the church is not mechanically minded and has to have full dealer support. There is a small Kioti dealer up there, might check in with them. I was afraid to buy from them since they were farmers with a tractor franchise and the place didn't look like it would make it.
Rain coming in later today, good thing it would be snow at the moment. Warming up to low 50's and rain into the evening.
Which is why I want to plant carrots today. That is top on my list, around noon when it hits 50 but before the rain starts in early afternoon.
And I have those 80 more onions to plant. Just dibbling along.
sorry to exceed my word limit.
