… because I overslept.
Tuesday and Wednesday were warm enough, even overnight, that we were able to move the papyrus plant outside and leave it. We really have to baby it all winter, because it must be kept above 55-F, but the past few weeks we’ve been putting it in the sunroom during the day, until this week when we were able to sit it out in the sun.
Wednesday night the temperature hurled itself downward, and it was barely 30º when we went to bed. I got up around 4AM and it was raining hard. When I finally crawled out from under the covers for the day it was snowing and blowing. We got a monumental quarter inch of snow, which melted almost before it hit the ground. By 10AM is was all gone. We had some ferocious winds – gusts up to 45 miles per hour. Anything not nailed down could be found in the next county.
Today it only reached 34° and was still breezy, but tomorrow and Sunday promise to be pushing 60 again.
Don’t like the weather? Stick around.
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