Spring Sprang!

I KNEW I came home from my Southern trip too soon. Now look, I'm snowed in! :(
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Good thing I stocked up on my favorite cereal this afternoon!
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Check out our upcoming spot forecast. Thursday 81 and then a chance of snow next Monday. Yup, Spring time. I'm still pulling the snow tires off the Lady's Subaru but leaving the snow poles up along the road.



Thursday
Sunny, with a high near 81. East wind 6 to 10 mph becoming west in the afternoon.


Thursday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 54. West wind 5 to 8 mph becoming east in the evening.


Friday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 76.


Friday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 48.


Saturday
Sunny, with a high near 67.


Saturday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 38.


Sunday
Sunny, with a high near 55.


Sunday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 32.


Monday
A slight chance of snow showers. Mostly sunny, with a high near 46.


Monday Night
A slight chance of snow showers. Partly cloudy, with a low around 31.
 
Today Bend set a record high temperature for the date, 7 April. The high was 79°F, beating the old record of 78° set in 2016.
 
...And Bend's forecast high temperature today is 25° cooler than yesterday's high.
:O
I'm meeting a friend for lunch...guess we won't be sitting outside.
 
Well at least I got half my yard work done before it rains , snows or what ever it does up here in the high desert and gee whiz-the Giants are on tv with the season opener this afternoon :LOL:! Yep it is Spring Time again!

Smoke
 
The forecast for Bend this coming week, with lows in the lower 20s and highs in the mid 40s...

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...could easily be for mid-winter instead of mid-spring.

I returned home to Bend with my travel trailer, thinking "winter is over". And yet...I just went out and winterized the RV's water system. :rolleyes: Oh well...that's why I bought RV anti-freeze on the way home: "Just in case...".
 
Mr. BC, you got me to check our forecast. Starting Monday, a chance of snow all week, but with little accumulation. Lows down to 23. I did not take the snow tires off of Julie's Subaru
 
Officially spring here: Refineries have switched to summer gas; my milage on last fill jumped from 12.5 to 14.0 mpg (same driving pattern).
 
So after a couple of months of "spring" we are going cold again. We will bring the orchids and succulents and geraniums back inside - where I do not know as the greenhouse is full of vegetable plants. My pear tree is in full bloom and the apples are budded up. I think this may be another year (like the last one) when we have local peaches and apricots but no apples. Last year the birds got the few pears that survived - I figured they needed them more than I did.

I believe it was during the days of Bodie and other gold mining that what is now Walker/Coleville was the fruit and veggie "basket" of Mono County and the store in Coleville was known for it's excessively high prices. Bridgeport could go below freezing in July even just 20 years ago and now they grow tomatoes. Memorial Day used the be the date we could put out tender veggies. The past two years I have had to cover my peppers because of snow the second week of June and in a conversation yesterday a neighbor told a story of stripping his children's beds of sheets to protect the garden, "Dad, that is my bed", "Here is your sleeping bag sweetie".
 
We had a skiff of snow here in Bend overnight, now mostly melted...no big deal. But what's a bit freakish is that Portland got several inches. :eek:
Snow in Portland isn't common but it's not freakish in winter. However, it is in April. A friend in Portland posted these shots of their yard this morning:

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These folks have landscaped their yard to look like Southern California, with palms and lots of succulents. This requires digging up, potting, and greenhouse-ing many of them over winter, then replanting outside after the "last frost". Palms and banana trees don't do well with snow... :(
 
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