Re: Crazy weather

I read a FA prediction in October or thereabouts that we'd have a mild
winter. Then the wk b4 tgiving the fierce cold hit, then the snow, and
it went on and on and I figured they were way off base. But it is milder
now and has been for some time. Maybe they were right.


Kitty

-- "Zemuly Sanders" <zsanders@midsouth.rr.com> wrote:
Didn't the Farmers' Almanac predict a winter like the one we are having? 
zem
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 9:28 PM
Subject: [CHAT] Crazy weather


> One strange aspect of this crazy weather is that we have a 
> Baltimore Oriole at our feeders this winter.  The bird books say
> they winter south of here, and that one wintering north of 
> Virginia is rare.  He seems to be a juvenile - his coloring is 
> not as brilliant as those we see in the spring - but he's been
> here all winter, even when the temperatures were in the single
> digits.  I worried about him when we had freezing rain, but I
> guess he has somewhere to shelter.  He seems to be a loner -
> no sigh of another.  I hope his flock will rediscover him in the 
> spring - if he survives the winter.
> 
> Strange weather - fluctuates from mild to very cold in hours - 
> up and down.  Don't remember another winter like this.  Don't
> like it.
> Auralie
> 
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