05/11/2011 21:13
Rain, Snow, Snain, and a Little Light Hail?
This is truly the most weird weather I have ever seen, and in Colorado we usually have weird weather to spare.
When I got up to let the dogs out at 6:00, it was raining and chilly. By the time I got up to get ready for work, it was colder, and snowing lightly. By the time I got to work at 9:30, it was a steady light rain. By the time I left there at 12:30, it was rain mixed with small, light hail. WTF??!!
I'm finally warming up. We had to bring all of the annual plants indoors, and it was quite a challenge. What was really strange was all the people we had coming in to shop. Needless to say, it wasn't so easy for them to shop in a greenhouse stuffed to the gills with 8' racks of plants jammed into every indoor nook and cranny we could find.
By the time I left, I was soaked. I had gone through two pairs of gloves that I wore for as long as I could stand them, until they were so wet and cold that my hands were freezing. I warmed my hands with cups of hot coffee when I could.
Almost an hour after I got home, my hands, nose and feet are just now starting to warm up. The good thing is, we really desperately needed the precip. But why does it have to be so danged blasted COLD!?
It looks like I need to put off planting for as long as another week.
