Extreme Weather
Wednesday morning it got so cold it frosted here in Northern Michigan. I didn’t pay sufficient attention to the weather reports and we lost all our tomato plants again. I’m not replanting. At this point, I can buy a couple of bushels of tomatoes at the farm market and it will cost me less money. Now, if I had started the plants from seed, I wouldn’t be out so much money. But having a newborn kinda sucks up a lot of free time and we didn’t get to it this year.
OK, I might still plant a few. At least some cherry tomatoes for salads. Oh, and those fancy yellow pears, those are so good too!
The next day it reached 90 degrees. I guess that’s what they mean by extreme weather patterns. Needless to say, the dramatic temperature change resulted in some VERY high winds. The thunderstorm that came in was very powerful and we were with out power for 16 hours.
Bill was funny. He was getting all upset about how somebody needed to get the power fixed soon. Then he realized that he spends a significant amount of time an energy on being “prepared”. Prepared for emergencies, prepared for confrontation, etc. So instead of being upset he started planning what we could do to lessen the impact of the next power outage. One thing for sure, we need a water collection system to catch rain water. If we had lots of livestock we might have been SOL on the water front. We don’t right now, just chickens. But pretty soon we’re going to get calves again. We went and looked at them last Sunday and should get them any day.
