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spryngIt's 20F outside right now; even Florida isn't getting away this time.
The front came in with strong winds yesterday afternoon, to the point where, when I went out to get a new heat bulb for the chicken coop, I was legit worried about driving. Thankfully our car is heavy enough that it didn't actually get blown off the road, but I always flash back to my little red 90s Saturn and how even a mild breeze felt like I was going to get blown away.
Anyway, I found the bulb to replace our cracked one, so the chickens should be fine. Honestly I'm probably coddling them a bit, because their coop is warm enough. When it's light out, though, I'll have to defrost their water because that will definitely be frozen solid.
Back to yesterday, with the wind and the temps dropping 20 degrees in an hour, I kept seeing these flurries of white, here and gone almost as quickly, and I was like "...no, that's just leaves/debris/dust kicked up by the wind." But then we were finishing up covering the plants (pour one out for my poor elephant ears that never had a chance after the last 25F snap), I saw the flurries again. And this time, there was a lot more. I ran outside and put my hand out and--sure enough--a little bundle of snow melted on my hand. Snow!!
It only lasted for a few minutes, but we definitely had snow flurries here in North Florida. CG went out and chased them without a jacket and I had to text all our friends in town so they could see it before it vanished. I tried to take a picture, but there just wasn't enough that it would show up, and by the time I remembered I could use flash to capture it better, it was gone.
It's supposed to be 20F again tonight, then gradually warm back up to normal temps. Getting to school tomorrow is going to be... interesting. We walked instead of biked all last week because my cut-off for biking for the kids has been 32F. I guess we'll just have another week of walking.
We're into February now; the shortest month and looking to be a busy one. 4yo becomes 5yo next (not this) week, so we've got a strawberry-picking party planned. Of course, now I'm wondering if there will even be any strawberries after all these freezes; they really need a proper warm period to grow big and tasty. The frost does make them sweeter, although I don't know if I'd call 20F "frost," lol.
Otherwise, we've got a 4 day weekend coming up that we should do something for, because it'll be the last proper time off until summer break (I'm going to Sirens for spring break, so that doesn't count). Maybe we'll go see the manatees? Do a day at St Augustine? IDK. I'll poll the family and see what they want to do, but I don't want to sit around at home for four days while everyone slowly goes insane.
All right, I'm going to cozy up with these cats and see if I can't finish reading Kate Elliot's THE NAMELESS LAND.
The front came in with strong winds yesterday afternoon, to the point where, when I went out to get a new heat bulb for the chicken coop, I was legit worried about driving. Thankfully our car is heavy enough that it didn't actually get blown off the road, but I always flash back to my little red 90s Saturn and how even a mild breeze felt like I was going to get blown away.
Anyway, I found the bulb to replace our cracked one, so the chickens should be fine. Honestly I'm probably coddling them a bit, because their coop is warm enough. When it's light out, though, I'll have to defrost their water because that will definitely be frozen solid.
Back to yesterday, with the wind and the temps dropping 20 degrees in an hour, I kept seeing these flurries of white, here and gone almost as quickly, and I was like "...no, that's just leaves/debris/dust kicked up by the wind." But then we were finishing up covering the plants (pour one out for my poor elephant ears that never had a chance after the last 25F snap), I saw the flurries again. And this time, there was a lot more. I ran outside and put my hand out and--sure enough--a little bundle of snow melted on my hand. Snow!!
It only lasted for a few minutes, but we definitely had snow flurries here in North Florida. CG went out and chased them without a jacket and I had to text all our friends in town so they could see it before it vanished. I tried to take a picture, but there just wasn't enough that it would show up, and by the time I remembered I could use flash to capture it better, it was gone.
It's supposed to be 20F again tonight, then gradually warm back up to normal temps. Getting to school tomorrow is going to be... interesting. We walked instead of biked all last week because my cut-off for biking for the kids has been 32F. I guess we'll just have another week of walking.
We're into February now; the shortest month and looking to be a busy one. 4yo becomes 5yo next (not this) week, so we've got a strawberry-picking party planned. Of course, now I'm wondering if there will even be any strawberries after all these freezes; they really need a proper warm period to grow big and tasty. The frost does make them sweeter, although I don't know if I'd call 20F "frost," lol.
Otherwise, we've got a 4 day weekend coming up that we should do something for, because it'll be the last proper time off until summer break (I'm going to Sirens for spring break, so that doesn't count). Maybe we'll go see the manatees? Do a day at St Augustine? IDK. I'll poll the family and see what they want to do, but I don't want to sit around at home for four days while everyone slowly goes insane.
All right, I'm going to cozy up with these cats and see if I can't finish reading Kate Elliot's THE NAMELESS LAND.
