On Saturday the 29th, we got our first snow flurries in the valley. It was a cold, cold storm! We drove to Payson for a high school marching band competition, and it was 32° with snow coming down pretty hard and lots of wind. Our poor daughter had to march in that weather on a […]
Yesterday was officially the first day of fall, and voila — we got snow on the mountains for the first time this season. I’m usually sad to see summer go and to know winter is on the way, but this year it isn’t so bad. With our baby last spring, this summer has not been […]
I’m on vacation all this week, so I hope my newly planted flowers are doing well! I see that it got cold in Utah, and I hope it doesn’t give us a surprise freeze at night. We put our houseplants on our covered deck so the neighbor girl could water them when she feeds our […]
This should be a warning for me next time we have warm spring weather, and I’m tempted to plant tender things outside before their time: The KSL weather guy is calling it “weather whiplash” and it is surprising how cold it has gotten after last week’s heat! We had temps in the high 60s and […]
My Forsythia started blooming about four days ago and really got full in the past two days. I love this shrub! It really brightens up the earliest spring. I hope its blossoms do OK in the freezing weather we’re having for the next few days. It hailed a little today and is expected to snow tonight […]
Yeah! This is really a sad statement about life in Utah, but today the temp got up to 44 degrees, and it felt great!!! The forecast is for mid-40s all week, and I am so stoked about that! Bring on the spring, that’s all I have to say. Maybe if the ground thaws a little, […]
This will probably go down as the coldest week of the year, and perhaps the coldest week in the past several years. We’ve had several days running of nighttime lows below zero (about 4-5 degrees below) and daytime highs around 10-15. It’s bitter. It’s so cold the snow on my driveway is just like sand. […]
Wow, our weather is really volatile lately! We just got a great snowstorm starting last night, and we have about 8-9 inches on the ground now. I went out this morning to shovel my driveway, and the neighbors were all out with their four-wheeler ATVs with snowplow blades. I got to use one to do […]