Looking at the current situation and extrapolating current trends into next Winter tells me that we have about three months to get with the program and get set up for what is surely going to be a deadly cold season this year.
As things sit right this minute, I can’t even put a garden in here.
I had ice on my windshield again yesterday morning, May the 13th.
That broke the record for the latest frost date in this area.
The rain has been near constant and the ground is saturated anyway.
That combination would more than likely see any seeds planted rotting in the ground anyway because the ground temperature is still too low on top of it all.
As far back as I can remember I don’t ever recall a more delayed Spring/Summer weather condition like what I am seeing right now.
My best guess tells me that it is going to continue like this until one day it’s going to go from chilly, cloudy and rainy to 85 fucking degrees like someone flipped a switch and then stay warm for a while.
Another thing I have noticed over the last several years is the Summer season changing earlier and earlier to Fall despite what the Calendar says.
Late August the last few years I wake up and can see the condensation on the windshield of my cars.
That’s the change.
That means we are literally having three months of decent weather that we can count on for a growing season.
IF, June decides to cooperate.
If not, September is usually one of the most beautiful months of the year around here but there are no guarantees.
With the continuing INTENTIONAL destruction of our economy, infrastructure and goods delivery systems, things are looking VERY SKETCHY for next Winter.
Heating oil, gas, diesel, propane and Natural Gas are already at historic price levels and now there is a looming Diesel Shortage staring us in the face.
This has been documented extensively across the internet already and the down stream effects of the scarcity of the most critical energy source this and every other country depends on to survive can not be stressed enough.
It boils down to this very simple fact,
No Diesel, No Food.
Full stop, end of story.
Amongst all this intentional destruction and mayhem, I am seeing people discussing politics as if nothing else is going on and they are pinning their hopes on voting the Democrats out of office.
These people need to wake the hell up.
Even if you removed every Democrat from office tomorrow, the damage has been done and is going to take YEARS to fix.
As it is, they aren’t going anywhere, You Aren’t Voting Your Way Out Of This to begin with and the ones in office still have years to continue their planned destruction of this country.
There are The Good Old Days people and you had best wrap your noggins around that fact.
At this point, Normalcy Bias is going to be a deadly condition to be afflicted with.
None of this is news, it’s been going on for years now but Crunch Time is upon us.
Get Prepared.
Or else plan on becoming a starving refugee inside your own country.
A very cold , starving refugee.
We had a cold spring here also, however not a lot of rain. In fact, I’d say we’re in the early stages of drought in central New England. Yes we got snow this year, but it was that dry fluffy stuff that has little moisture content.
I was at camp earlier this week which is about 150 miles North of home. Monday night we had a hard frost. I thought I was going to have to fire up the wood stove. It warmed up quickly once the sun came over the eastern ridge, luckily.
The neighbor down the mountain told me hasn’t planted his garden yet as the ground isn’t warm enough. He raise 90% of his own vegetable food. Not his meat. He can’t keep chickens between the foxes, coyotes, raccoons and black bears and doesn’t have enough land for beef.
He wants me come up next month to go predator hunting, especially for coyotes, which have destroyed the abundance of turkeys that were very prevalent until two years ago. that was when the local coyote pack grew from very few to many. I heard a pack Wednesday night less than 200 yards from camp that sounded like it has 6-10 members including some young ones that haven’t learned to howl yet. I think they have a den just over our property line. I wasn’t going down in there by myself to see if a den is there as I can’t run any more abnd can’t even walk that fast. I can still put pills on target near and far, but with as many as I think this pack may be, I’d need another two legged pill launcher for defense.
Same thing going on up here. Woke up to frozen puddles and drizzle. Haven’t seen temps out of the high 30’s for a few days and it was snowing Monday & Tuesday. I’ve still got 8 or 10 inches of snow in places and the ground’s frozen an inch or 2 down. We rely on ocean going barges and airlift for an incredible amount of supply up here. No diesel, no barges. No diesel, no jet fuel, which means no supply line to the bush villages. Places like Nome, Kotzebue & Barrow are going to be in very serious trouble. I work for a medevac company. We come get you from the aid station in your village and haul you to a real hospital in Fairbanks or Anchorage. No jet fuel? Grandma’s prob’ly gonna die because there’s no way to get her proper care. No diesel? No fire trucks, no ambulance, probably no tow truck…best be careful this year.
Start of another Solar Sunspot Cycle, people – haven’t you seen the Suspicious Observer videos? This, combined with greey, venal, and corrupt “leaders” is gonna be The Perfect Storm.
Frankly, IMHO, if you aren’t prepared RIGHT NOW you have screwed the pooch. I hope I’m wrong.
Yep, cold springs, one of the hazards of trying to garden in the PNW. We had a warm spell at the end of March that motivated me to start quite a few seeds among them our entire pole bean crop. The warm spell ended and we’ve been in the cold, damp, hard frost most mornings cycle through to today.
Out of desperation, once the pole bean starts were 20 inches tall I went ahead and planted them, then wrapped the trellis in a tarp and set out a propane heater. To get to the end of this tale of woe, I’ve started a whole second batch of pole bean seed as we’ve froze out the entire first set.
Current propane bill so far this season keeping the greenhouse warm and trying to keep the pole beans alive is running right at $200. Usually I’ll spend around $25~$30 a spring to heat the greenhouse.
Usually I’ll have corn in the ground by the first of May, so far this year I haven’t even been able to work the soil. Ditto for most of the rest of the garden.
It’s shaping up to be a poor harvest this year but I could stand to lose a few pounds so I’ll just look at it as a forced diet.
See you on the other side
wes
wtdb
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Get used to it.
Sounds like the global warming policies have been successful in your area. Please let John Kerry know.
Woke to snow again this morning. Wet and heavy 2 inches.
Still burning wood to keep the cabin warm. Usually by now I’m opening the windows for a couple hours a day. I’ve been back here now from the month long stay if Fairbanks for just about 3 weeks. In that time, I’ve counted 2 days of full sunshine. Wake up some mornings and it’s there, but then these planes start flying and leaving cloud like streaks across the sky. They don’t disappear, they join together. In a few hours time, the entire sky is now grey. I’ve heard about this for years. I never paid any attention to it before last fall. Then the jets started. I hardly ever saw them here and then the runs started. They came all winter and we had a snowfall almost 3 times the normal. So you tell me.
All I know is, I keep hearing they want us dead. Guess that’s just another conspiracy theory too. No way on top of everything else that they would use the weather to speed up our demise.
Yup, the common denominator being Trains and long haul Trucks need diesel . Not even MickeyD plus every other fry food joint produces enough waste cooking oil to meet total demand for fuel. Heck, they will all be closed because they wont be receiving supplies. At least Phil might be close enough to where he can fish for food.
I don’t know if you want to eat what flows through the Columbia River any more…. But a bunch of nice trout streams up around Mt Adams and North through the Cascades, but with that many people living up the I-5 corridor it may be more like Soylent Green time…
I haven’t put things in the ground til 25 May and always had good results. This year will be the test pattern for that. Fuck al goracle and the suzukster….the glob is def cooling! Good Luck, everyone.
I am rolling the dice. I break ground on a house I plan to spend my last years in. It is in rural south GA as that is near where I grew up and I am very tired of living in metro Atlanta. I will be downsizing from a 3100 sq ft to 2200 sq ft ranch type home. I will be using my VA loan for a zero down buy so that I can move and then put my current house on the market. Once I sell the current house I will build a workshop and refinance/pay-off the VA loan.
NW Illinoisistan-7th of May we had snow fluries on and off all day.
Last week we had 4 staight days of 93+ with a shitload of humidity.
All four days established local records and the weather guy had wood all week because a stretch of record days in succession like that is supposed to be almost impossible.
Far as I know, it was hot.
The carnage will be gloriously ugly.
I’m down in Alabama and we aren’t getting rain. Garden is having tough time if I don’t water every day. Not sure who has the good weather this year, but they should share.
To late for this year but look into hay bale gardening. You start in Feb or March by lining them up an putting nitrogen fertilizer on top. A couple of fence posts and some wire will hold a plastic sheet just above making a small tent heated by composting straw.
Great ideas.
Sometimes I get too damn busy and miss great comments.
I’ve been reading that the hay crops have been contaminated by roundup. Apparently the chemical remains in the hay even passing through animals manure and survives in the resulting compost. I used hay as mulch one year and couldn’t grow shit in that ground for about 4 years. Be damn careful where you get your hay bales. Mine came from a farm & feed store.
What Trumpeter said, or make hotbeds, the old way of planting early. Our ancestors got one to two extra months at the beginning of the growing season that way. You need a source of somewhat fresh manure to make it work, or a really big compost pile.
Here’s some YT videos for ideas: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=garden+hotbeds
Great tip.
Thanks for the links!