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Snow. Really? We saw it in the 12 Days of Christmas

3/11/2010

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We do this activity every year during the 12 Days of Christmas. For each day of the 12 days of Christmas, which some do not realize are the days between Christmas & Epiphany/Three King's Day...anyway, during those days we track the weather. Not hard core, but take note of the AM & PM precipitation & temperature & anything unusual. Each day corresponds to the subsequent month in the calendar...first day of Christmas is January of the coming year & so on. It is not exact but holds quite true for the tone of the year's weather...generally cooler, warmer, drier, wetter, etc.

And so far this is what it showed to be on Mother Nature's slate. We consider it more of an interesting & fun activity than an intuitive glimpse or anything close to that, but we were wondering a while ago if we should think about a heavier year for greens & brassicas & not hold out hope for a great tomato year. Time will tell, as with all things, & all things farmy.

We've had snow at least once a little later in March than this - maybe the 20th in the last 15 years. I do remember that we had lots of plants in the ground already & got a very wet late snow. These are the things that make it such an interesting dance.
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Anne
3/13/2010 05:01:22 am

Thanks for this wonderful Christmas activity. I'll be doing the same come winter. However, spring is here! On March 1st the robins arrived here in northeast Nebraska. Today we have seen huge flocks of geese flying north. With all the bird song you can practically feel all of nature quickening.

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9/21/2012 03:41:40 pm

Just reading up on some of this lately, was interesting.

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