Did
I say it was like summer out there in my last post? Well, it will be
deep winter next Tuesday and Wednesday as they are predicting a lows
of 31˚ and 29˚. Ack! No freezing! My yellow trumpet flowers both
have unopened buds on them. Though it will turn the gingko trees
bright yellow and all their leaves will fall off two days later and
the tallows will get bright red and orange.
So
in anticipation of the cold weather I started bringing in the plants
yesterday. Got all the smalls, a few of the mediums, and none of the
bigs which is my plan for today, to get the rest and I thought I
would have all day, but now the oft wrong weather app says rain
starting early afternoon. Shit! I need to rearrange the garage first.
Which is what I did yesterday, not the garage, but the work tables. I
finished the flower with bee and leaf wax (two separate pieces),
the
last of it's kind for the foreseeable future, and put away all the
wax and model making tools til after the first of the year, cleared
off the small work table that I had been using to fill molds and
moved all that stuff to the big work table now devoid of model making
stuff and moved the small work table to the back bedroom which is now
covered with plants.
And
I wrangled this monster in and, as you can see, had to tie up it's
gangly branches to get it through the gate and the door.
Its
two seed pods are turning bright red.
Several
hours later...
I
got the rest of the plants in that go in the house and got the garage
rearranged and the big plants moved in, the plumerias will go dormant
and will stay in til spring, others will be moved in and out as the
weather allows, with about 20 minutes to spare.
The
oft wrong weather app on my phone said rain at 1 PM and at 2 minutes
til I looked up and it was raining. I guess I won't get the pansies
and violas I bought yesterday planted this afternoon.
So
now that I've got everything in I just looked at the weather forecast
and it has been revised again with a low now of just 30˚.
Give it a couple more hours and it will probably in the 40˚s. Oh
well, it all needed to come in as it will yo-yo until winter sets in
for good.
And
now it's back down to 29˚.
