Robert,

Did you sit down with the plasma TV and say "Explain yourself, sir." Because, if you did, I want to hear all about the wild party that led to the plasma TV floating in the hot tub.

You might notice the compost is sulking and feeling abandoned, the onions are dry and needy and whining, the skinny spinach seedlings are saying 'thin is in' and they wish to be addressed in the future not as 'spinach' but as 'skinny spinny', and the peach trees will be fine because they are tougher than they look.

As far as ordering up the weather, well, no you did not choose this weather. It, however, did choose you/us. There now, don't you feel special to be among 'The Chosen'?

You know, if you'd just stay home 24/7/365 and give your garden and your beautiful landscape your complete, undivided attention, then these regrettable incidents might not happen. If you insist upon abandoning our beautiful state just so you can gallivant around the countryside, you're going to pay for it upon your return.

I regret to inform you that this is Oklahoma and, even though we dearly love our fair state, she seems to have severe mood swings when it comes to the weather. Luckily for us, she only has those severe mood swings in the winter, spring, summer and fall.....uh oh, that doesn't leave us any nice, smooth, carefree seasons, now does it?

As far as I know, NONE of us want this weather because none of us are certifiably insane, but I'm just guessing at that. In the tradition of our Oklahoma forefathers, we'll just do the best we can with what we've got...and apparently what we've got is winter weather for the first weekend in spring.

In closing, if you are responsible for ordering the weather in Oklahoma, I have a bone to pick with you. Specifically, I want you to look at the weather that caused drought conditions in Love County in 2008-2009, part of 2007, 2005-2006, and 2003 and I want you to answer this question: "What where you thinking?"

Laughing with you.....because otherwise we'd have to cry.

Dawn

omg....you had a break..but this is reality...and it SUCKS a big toe...(now that's not near as nice as what Dawn said).

We gotta love this state we live in...or we can move to Colorado. I want to hear more about the Plasma floating in the hot-tub....

Paula

Saturday disappoints me, but I haven't been too happy the past couple of days. I don't mind wearing a jacket, but I have needed my hoody under the jacket, and I resent that. My hands are cold. I don't have a choice in gloves, so I put up with cold hands. I also cannot start working outside until later since the mornings are so cold.

My roses have really suffered this year. The newest ones that I planted in October died. The spring planted ones are ok, but many died back to the ground.

Since I stopped all sprays, I have lost about 150 roses. It is sad for the weather to zap the remaining ones.

Sometimes I consider moving, but I have children in Washington D.C. and San Diego, and their problems are worse than ours. Mainly the property is so expensive. Texas could be nice, but not reliably nice. I cannot really think of a part of the country that I would prefer.

Well, not unless I were rich, then my imagination could just fly.

I guess the bad weather is designed to keep us inside and do some housework.

Dawn, you are quite clever.

Sammy

Good Morning Y'all,

Paula, You know, you do have to love our state to live here, and I truly, truly do. The people here are the best and the kindest and most caring folks I've ever seen. The weather, though, is incredibly frustrating at times.

Sammy, Everything you said about the weather reflects what I have experienced this week too. I'm so tired of the cold nights and mornings and haven't spent much time outside every day until the temperatures warm up after lunch time.

It sounds like the weather has been really rough on your roses and I am sorry to hear that.

I have asked myself where else I'd want to live if not here, and have decided that every region of the country has its own weather and climate challenges, so why not just stay here where at least we know what to expect. At least we have a nice, long growing season here and some years can even keep some cold-season crops alive all winter.

I've had about 75% of my tomato (and other) seedlings outside for two weeks and they spend their days outside in the sun and their nights in the insulated but unheated barn/garage, but I'll be bringing them back inside on Friday and keeping them inside all weekend.

I have zero confidence in our forecast overnight low temperatures at this point. Both the NWS and our local TV meteorologists have missed our overnight lows repeatedly this week. Usually, they are more or less right although we might drop a few degrees colder here by the river every now and then. This week we've dropped several degrees (as many as 8) lower than the forecast low every single night. For example, for last night they said 36 and we went to 29 (the last time I checked). Thus, I can only think that our weekend forecast low of 32 may end up being 25, and that means I'll need to cover up the pea plants which will be harder than it sounds since they're climbing a 6' trellis.

I know it could be worse. This week, on the news, we've seen the residents who live along the Red River of the north filling sandbags to protect their cities from flooding yet again. I'm glad we don't have to worry about that kind of flooding here along the Red River of the south. I read a newspaper article about the northern Red River flooding, and they quoted a gentleman who'd moved there in the early 2000s. He said they'd had a 'ten-year flood' every year since he moved there, so at least it isn't just our spring weather that has been misbehaving throughout the 2000s.

Dawn

Robert,
Like the rest waiting to hear the rest of the story about the TV.

As for the weather you can blame Dawn and a few others. LOL. A week or so before Christmas they were wishing for a white Christmas. I went and ordered a change in the weather pattern so they would have one. Have enjoyed it so much here I haven't seen any reason to change the order. LOL.

Our weather here is still taking a roller coaster ride. Low last night of 38. A predicted high today of the lower 70's and then a high tomorrow and Sat. of 39-40 with possibly a few inches of snow. But back to 50's Sunday and 60's Monday. The lowest predicted low is 20 for one night. So not bad for this time of year. Just a little spring hic up on the first day of spring.

Everything here is so pretty and green. Such a change from the last severe drought years. I'm just enjoying it. Jay