READY FOR SPRING

[frank_f15]

this is what i woke up to yesterday fri. 3-12 . am ready for some nice spring weather

 

[frank_f15]

forgot to mentiom the last post was taken out our dinning room window this shot is out the living rm window, looking into the woods, as u can see from both pics i have some downed trees to clear

 

[wroughtn_harv]

I bet you're glad that's a "dry" cold.

Here our Bradford Pears bloomed for one day, maybe two, and now they're putting on that light shade of green.

 

[frank_f15]

yep, that was a dry(relatively) cold , but now that snow is all gone, and now it is windy and raining all in the matter of 3 days, but that is march in WESTERN NEW YORK. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Bird]

This morning one of our local TV meteorologists mentioned that today (March 14) is the average date of our last freeze of the season, but barring any unexpected event, February 16 was the last one this year, and this winter we had 30 days on which the low temperature got down to freezing; the fewest of the last 5 years.

 

[JayC]

Oh yuck! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif I want spring here NOW! I am sick of this snow. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif A lot has melted but there is still some on the ground. The weatherman said we could get an inch or two of snow. It is really windy right now. They are supposed to get up to 40 mph. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

 

[sassafraspete]

I thought they only had 2 seasons up there....winter and the 4th of July.

sassafraspete

 

[frank_f15]

sometimes it feels like that, we are supossed to have summer this year on july 8 and 9th , july 10th starts the fall season /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif just joshing, it is just march to me is the most depressing month. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[Bowhunter]

I have spring fever also. I spent part of Saturday changing oil in the tractor and prepping the mower deck. If things continue to go the way they have the last couple of weeks, I'll be mowing by April 1st.

 

[_RaT_]

I've done my first mowing of the season and not only have the fruit tress all blossomed, but we should have cherries soon. Spring is here even if the calender makes us wait until Saturday.

 

[johnday]

We only have two seasons also, winter and construction.

 

[JayC]

Are you rubbing it in? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[SageBrush]

Yep, mowing season is very close here. We just planted our early spring garden... taters, greens, carrots etc.. We hit 73 degrees today... heat wave!

I do miss the snow, we didn't get much. Just lots of cold rain.

 

[_RaT_]

/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Ask Daryl, Mr 5030

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( mowing season is very close here )</font>

What do you mean; very close? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif I mowed for the 3rd time today and it was way past due; just been too much rain and it was still too wet today but not raining, so I got it mowed.

 

[SageBrush]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( </font><font color="blueclass=small">( mowing season is very close here )</font>

What do you mean; very close? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif I mowed for the 3rd time today and it was way past due; just been too much rain and it was still too wet today but not raining, so I got it mowed. )</font>

Well, I could mow. But, its not 10 inches deep yet. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[frank_f15]

Bird , today is march 16, but i don't think i will run over to the other garage and put the RFM on yet this what it looks like today at 1pm, and it has not stopped snowing right now i got about 10 in on the ground, know what i will be doing in the AM.

 

[frank_f15]

RAT, this ones for u. taken out the living room window(i was not going out there) if u look close u can see the cherry blossoms on our trees(or are those snow flakes? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[Bird]

Frank, that's sure pretty; not sure I'd want to live there, though. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Frank I live about thirty to forty miles the way the crow flies from Bird. Here in Texas that means we can have two different seasons, one for him, one for me, at the same time.

But yesterday at eleven my thermal came off and I worked the rest of the day in a t shirt. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif Of course it's in the low forties this morning and is expected to be in the high seventies this afternoon with good chances of bad weather, thunderstorms etc.

There is hope for ya'll though. Someone, maybe TBN?, will come up with "virtual tractoring" and you'll be able to plow, dig, level, mow, etc without leaving the office. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Of course the kids might be able to program it but it's going to take some tough old bird to instruct them on hazards like subterrainian congestion when digging postholes, clumpyitis when leveling clay, bumpetybuttosis when working rocky ground, and of course, properpanic nueruosis after a stiff leg slips into the trench. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I can see a whole new industry. There'd have to be the live action seat with real deal imitation controls and immediate feedback. The deluxe model would come in green or orange, next level down, red.

For one tenth the cost of a real tractor you could have all the sensations. Including a tee'd off wife because you'd be in tractoring instead of doing chores. The cost ratio would be approximately the same for projects.

Sure make it tough on us contractors though. We have enough of a problem with folks with just the wrong amount of knowledge explaining to us how to do our job. I can just imagine my reaction when a virtual expert explains to me that the clay when wet isn't really that bad. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif