Attention New Englanders: It's cold out.
I said it. I'm sure you haven't noticed - or at least that's how the news is acting. We get it. This winter sucked - it was cold, it snowed a bunch and home heating fuel is at an all-time high. Tell us something we don't know. Any idiot could tell you that not breaking freezing several days in a row in mid to late March is "unseasonable".
I'm ready for the cold to be over and I'm sure everyone else is too. We normally plant our peas around St. Patrick's Day to get a nice early crop of them, but that didn't happen this year. The ground is frozen still and at this point it seems like garden season may never come.
Now watch, this summer it will be hot and dry. We'll have droughts and fires, going from one extreme to the next. I hope not, but that's how things work around here. Our town recently implemented a $215 capital improvements charge on top of our water bills, so we'll be setting up rain barrels to help conserve water and make up the difference. I have 1 barrel, so I'll be checking for plans online to turn it into a rain barrel and catch some of the snow melt this weekend.
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