I feel your pain, so much to do and cant go out to get it done. Although this morning i was out in the rain bringing in all my plants that i have hardened off. Im patiently waiting for the sun to show its face to start laying our patio. Of course as always I got a little anxious and planted out somethings, so i will be covering those up tomorrow. The rest of the weekend indoor stuff, awaiting the possible snow.

The super soft ground makes weeding an easy chore, but, that's about it.

I have about a dozen perennials that I think would appreciate being planted, but, I have a good long streach of days off next week (finally) so maybe then, if it dries out at all. And, because I can't trust the rain to not turn into 00 buckshot my veggie starts are clearly aching to be outside.

On the plus side, crappy weather makes for easy days at the park lol.

I was just thinking I needed a bad weather day so I would be forced to stay inside and get some house cleaning done. I got my wish. . . we were supposed to get almost 2" here in Billings but I just watched the weather report . . . they recanted it is now 1/10". . . fine by me. . .

Now I just have to fuss with some annuals I planted. . . I know . . . I will never learn. . . it's just hard to imagine on a hot sunny 80 degree day that in a weeks time there will be a threat of frost. I'll just put some *hats* (buckets) on them. I have all kinds of perennials that are 12 +" but they are on their own. . . columbines and daisys are blooming their heads off. Peonies are ready to pop. . . sigh

I was kinda glad for the chance of rain, hoping the clouds would keep the frost away. . . now I don't know what to expect, but forecasted 35 Sat & Sun is too close for comfort. . .

My favorite saying is. . . to garden is to believe in tomorrow. . . boy those words ring loud and clear today. . .

Good luck everyone. . .

~Debi

I wish we were only getting 1/10th of an inch of rain here. My backyard has had it. Several hours ago, there was at least an inch of standing water throughout the middle of it - the ground just can't absorb any more water - and it has been raining off and on - mostly on - very hard since then, so the puddle continues to grow and deepen. If this keeps up, not only are the worms going to drown, but I fear some of my plants are going to do so as well. It does no good to rage against nature, but, man, I am not happy with her right now!

Holly

That's not good Holly. . . I have to say I was very relieved when the changed the forecast. I gave the usual 1" drink to my yard Wednesday (not expecting much rain) and then it has been raining ever since. . . nothing seems to be suffering here but I just got done covering/packing tenders into protection.

I wish you luck. . .

Its been so cold and cloudy here that I'm getting some weird fungus starting to grow on lots of my pepper and petunia plants in the greenhouse - Usually this time of year I open all the doors and most windows, haven't been able to do that for the last week. I keep snipping off the infected leaves, but these plants need to be outside in the sun.

Don't worry everyone, the coming snow on the Colo Front Range & foothills will make you forget all about the rain!

I have about 125 sq ft under hoops/cover right now. Sigh...

So we had the trifecta today in Colorado, right? Winter storm warnings, tornado warnings, and flash flood warnings?

A Red Flag Warning would have made history, or at least a hashtag trend on the Tweeters. I hate to think I blew a weather forecast so badly, as I look at one low moving rapidly toward KS and hope the frost-tender plants make it...

I drove all the way down the west side of Wolf Creek Pass in SECOND GEAR today! Merry Christmas!

So now I check NOAA and I'm (in Denver!) supposed to be getting 6 to 10" of snow overnite!!! Guess I'll stay here on the Warm Side of The State (everything's relative!) for a while!

Hunker down, everyone,
Skybird

We had 2,24" yesterday. We just got a dusting of snow. Tornado warning but one of the chasers got some great footage of one east of us near Cheyenne Wells. The normally dry Big Sandy that runs through town is running with water. That doesn't happen much anymore.

Realized yesterday that not only is this June going to be the 25th anniversary of the Limon tornado, but it will also be the 50th anniversary of the Flood of '65. Most know that flood from all the damage along the South Platte, but we got stuck in Peyton by washed out bridges. The cell held over the Palmer Divide and dumped. Denver saw tremendous damage, but all the creeks feeding off the Divide flooded to the north and south.

Since it's Mother's Day, I'm going to allow my self a happy 3/4ths of the day and I'm not looking in the Walls of Water in the garden till after dinner. Lots of things were flopped over from the snow load this morning, but I don't see any breakage and things are starting to spring back up. Every nook, cranny and depression in the soil is full of water.

We seem to have more standing water here than we did after the September 2013 flood. That hit quickly, then the water receded. These days and days of saturation seem different. It may just be that we haven't completely dried out from the flood.

I'll be in muck boots for a while.

I'm more worried about things tonight with freezing temps and no snow cover.

Barb

I'm trying not to look in the WOWs either, but I did brush off the snow early so the sun could heat up the water and give the best chance of survival. We had ~7 inches of snow here, but not sure it will last on top of the hoops to provide insulation for tonight....

Jali, when I emptied my rain gauge on Wednesday it had 1.4” in
it. When I emptied it yesterday morning it had another 2.4” in it!
Flood of '65, indeed! I emailed Barb last nite to let her know I
had arrived safely—tense, but safe—and I mentioned the Flood of
'65 to her! She's not old enough to remember it, but I am! It
rained, like this time, for a week or whatever and everything was
saturated—and then, like you said, it DUMPED and that was all they
wrote! All the bridges in/out of Denver on the west side of town but
ONE washed out, including one that was just a couple years old and
had been built for a “500-year flood!” I have pics of a span of
that bridge laying in the middle of the Platte! Huge sections of
I-25 and the train tracks between Denver and the Springs washed out!
I still have the newspapers from right after it with all the pics!
But I hadn't stopped to think that this was the 50th
anniversary of it!!! Cherry Creek Dam was still new back then, and
there was near panic on the news that it was going to break—they
were releasing water as fast as they could. I lived in an apartment
about a half a block from Speer and we were listening to the radio so
we'd know when to RUN—and then the power went out! I'm still
here—so, no, it didn't break!

And 25th anniversary of the Limon tornado! Wow! Some
years to remember! Guess you remember that one well! What I
remember was I was watching TV weather and all of a sudden the radar
went down! Switched channels, and no radar! Switched again—nobody
had radar anymore! That's when we knew it was “serious!” If the
Limon radar was wiped out—what else in Limon was wiped out! Wasn't
long and the channels were picking radar up from the airport, and
that's when most of them switched to doppler! Memories!

I've been watching Denver radar today, and the forecast, and at
least it looks like this is about the end of it for right now, so,
hopefully, no repeat of '65!

Thinking of you all down in the lowlands--make that WETlands--right now,

Skybird

I took a peak at the maters and peppers in WOW and they're just fine! I put big tree pots over the WOW and covered the dahlias. The few inches of dahlia above the potting mix is toast, but I can just trim that off. Some of the iris blooms might not make it, but I think I'll have enough left to enjoy.

The rest of the plants are just going to have to deal with it! It does look like this storm might finally be done with us and nicer weather is coming.

Sunshine will be most welcome!

I left a garden toter out to measure total storm, and there is just short of 4" of water in it this morning. The nearby official station only measured 2.15, but our house is on the side of a hill facing windward for this storm, so favored for precip. Had a little crunchy water in the WOWs yesterday, but no damage to plants so far, although sheer weight of snow did snap a half-dozen garlic stalks...boo!

I still have a lake in my back yard, probably 2-3 inches deep in the middle. I spent Saturday afternoon, after it finally stopped raining, pumping water out of my backyard. And then it started raining again, then the snow started- (had about 5 inches of heavy wet snow here) and I lost whatever gains I had made. I had the pump running all day Sunday, too. I took a look inside of my crawlspace - water there, too, but I didn't explore further. What you don't know can't hurt you, right?!? My pump is very small but it certainly helped; pumped out more this morning before I had to start work. Ugh. I don't have my backyard xeriscaped, but most of the plants are at least drought tolerant. Having their roots under water for days is not doing them any good; in a month or so I guess I will know what has survived.

I decided to "err on the side of caution" and covered my vegetables with sheets Saturday night , and last night as well. I haven't planted anything particularly "tender" as yet, so, though the heavy snow on Saturday/Sunday damaged some of the onion tops, I think everything will recover.

I hope everyone's plants and soil will recover from all of this water. Getting what seems like half a year's rainfall in just seven days is never good!

Holly

I'm in Colorado Springs, so we got hail, rain, sleet, snow...you name it. Some trees were blooming, crabapple and serviceberry. Blooms are gone. The sandcherry bushes had little pink flowers- gone now. My granny smith apple tree did have some blooms on it, but those are gone. Will any of these bloom anymore? My crabapple and sandcherry are young; I was hoping to see them get fuller this year. My lilacs hadn't bloomed yet, so that's good.

I also planted some veggie seeds in the ground. I wonder if anything will sprout. I may just go purchase some plants and go with that this year.

At least the lawns are green, lots of dandelions though.

I'm ready for drier weather. I hope for a warm dry weekend.

Kristie

Kristie, it depends on what seeds you planted. Cool season veggies like lettuce, beets, spinach, radish etc. Will still sprout just fine.

Its still too early to be planting beans and squash and things like that even without the unseasonable snow. Sure they may still sprout, but germination will be much slower and less reliable. I wait until at least June for warm season direct down plants.

Oh and since we were on topic of floods and particularly '65, Chatfield SP which is right down the road was built as a result of that flood! Seems to be doing its job, I was down there today (our storage shed is over there) and snapped this picture at the boat ramp near the Plum Creek entrance (off of Titan Road/CR 7)

I wanted to get a picture of the swim beach, which I pass on Wads on my to work, where the bathroom buildings are currently totally under water!