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Gorgeous day today, sunny & high in low 80’s, a beautiful Spring day. Mowed the back 2/3 in a tank top it was so warm :-) I had just finished mowing early afternoon when the wind kicked up after being dead quiet all morning - advance winds from a front coming through overnight with showers tomorrow, highs in the 50’s, wind gusts 30 - 40. The weather around here is a real roller coaster.

I did a little chainsawing after mowing & scouted out/made a list of what I will be cutting down next. I wanted to spray some areas that are either hard to mow or I can’t mow, but again, too windy. I ended up messing around in the shop & made a carpenter bee trap - they are all around the old pole shed. I need a screw eye to hang it & can’t find any (I have seen some somewhere)!

Wind was down a little after 5:30 so tried burning what was on our burn pile - a couple of gusts that had the flames roaring convinced me it was still too windy.

I have several projects in the shop such as putting the potting bench together, building the two raised beds, & getting all the tools laying around/in boxes organized in those 30 metal drawers (magnetic labels came Friday) or set aside to hang on peg board. I can hardly find anything right now with the shop in such a state of disarray from moving tools, etc. from the old garage. I’m tired from being on the go most of the day, but if I can get a ‘second wind’, I might go work in the shop tonight - I left the doors open today so the cool air inside blew out & it’s a comfortable temperature, no wood stove needed.

So jealous that you have your own Shop. :)

My Zero-Turn is in for repairs to the starter and a once-over of everything else. Beau will change the oil for me and sharpen the blades for the season, but he’s weird about letting me mow until May. Everything is REALLY greening up, up here, but the grass isn’t leaping out of the ground or anything...yet!

Rumor has it that he’s leaving the 4-wheeler here for me this season, which will be nice for Mail Runs and to head out to my favorite Black Cap Raspberry and Blackberry Patches on the farm. He’s usually at Bear Training Camp or actual Bear Camp when all the berries are ready for picking...so now I have some transportation to those spots!

We have been taking ‘tours’ all around the farm (with Mom, too, Saturday) with his new 6-wheel UTV and while I STILL DON”T LOOK and dig my claws into his shoulder and also SCREAM if he’s looking like he’s going off a cliff, it has been fun. Kind of. Sort of. Maybe. ;) (It’s VERY Hilly here. VERY!)

I want to die in my sleep like Grandpa; not screaming and begging for my life like the passengers on his car, LOL!

Gorgeous day today, sunny & high in low 80’s, a beautiful Spring day.

Meanwhile,

A surge of freezing air will hit the East. It could be the last of the season. Across more than 20 states, temperatures will dip to levels more typical of March. Frosty conditions will stretch from the Dakotas to the Appalachians as windswept snowflakes fly across the Great Lakes and northern New England. On Wednesday morning, freezing temperatures will be found from the Dakotas to northern New England, with 40-degree low temperature readings stretching as far south as the Florida Panhandle, as much as 10 to 15 degrees below average for the time of year.

Temperatures on Thursday morning will be even colder than Wednesday for areas from Michigan to Maine and southward into the Appalachians. Low temperatures will fall below freezing in western Virginia and western North Carolina, with Washington dipping into the 30s — potentially for the last time this season.