So far, a crunchy glaze of ICE over everything - budding trees, and my Magnolia! Grrr! But, they’ll be OK. We’ll be back to 50 degrees by next Friday and beyond.
Snow starting in earnest about 7pm, but radar doesn’t look all that bad. Foster Son, 3 hours north, has a full foot of snow so far.
Hoping for another mere flesh wound down here!
It looks like we “lost” some perennials and tree blooms that came out “too early”. I’ll be better able to tell, tomorrow.
We also “lost” one of our best liked chickens today: An old Easter Egger who would still pop out a beautiful blue egg once in a while. A truck had come by, leaving hunks of manure out on the road in front of our property. The birds were “out”, I was away, and daughter-san was evidently having a 4+ hour conversation on her phone with some friend. EE apparently went to investigate this interesting stuff on the road and got hit, about 5 minutes B4 I got home. She was still very warm (on a cold day) when I drove up, and not torn up, but thoroughly dead.
In all these years of having chickens, this is the 1st of ours that got hit out on the road. But, this bird always has been very inquisitive: She’d often come within a couple feet to watch me work on stuff for quite a while even if it wasn’t any kind of “ground work” that might turn up bugs or worms. OTOH, she was also slightly on the flighty side. An interesting “character”, in a way. She was also by a couple months our oldest bird, about ten y/o.
So... this is not like losing a dog, but, I kinda hate to see her go before her time. She’s been a very healthy, hardy, and predator avoiding bird. And, she was our only blue egg layer. :-(
The only good news was scooping a couple 5 gallon buckets of chunks of manure off the road for the garden.