Tropical

After our first real winter in a while, we have hit a very very mild patch of weather here. Last week the lows approached -10 F and last night, it didn't even freeze! Today it is supposed to be close to 50 F! And you can feel the days getting longer and the sun getting a tiny bit stronger. It feels like mid-March rather than mid-January, and it is a welcome break for a few days.

Puddles on the driveway

Snow shedding from the barn roof

While the warm weather is nice, it is setting off farm alarm bells in my head. There is still a bunch of planning we need to do and work getting ready for the season -- starting seedlings for the greenhouses, barn and shop clean up, building a solar pump for the upper hoophouses, putting a new cover on one of the greenhouses, fixing the stovepipe on another greenhouse, we need to find and hire a crew, sell CSA shares, order supplies, buy some pieces of new equipment, find a new-to-us truck, etc. etc. etc. So it is really time to get moving on some things.

Fortunately, we still have a little time. Not all the snow has melted yet.

The far greenhouse still covered in snow