I second the motion . . . All in favor?

I’ve been watching the weather forecast all last week hoping they were just kidding about following up a lovely string of 65-75 days with one. Night. Of. Below. Zero.

But alas, the forecast never changed, and yesterday afternoon had me covering up the hosta that had come up. It’s a perennial, so it would come back from the roots even if it did die back from the cold, but it’s been up and actively growing for almost two weeks, and I didn’t want them to have to start all the way over because of one. Night. Below. Zero. Everything else in my yard will be okay apart from perhaps the apple blossoms. Not sure how much cold they can take, but the hosta are sensitive.

The high/low thermometer we have says it got down below zero for a few hours early, early this morning. I’m waiting until it hits 40 to go unwrap them and put the hanging baskets back out. A quick peek under the frost blankets while out with the dogs shows them just fine, but it might be days before the final verdict is in and I know if they got away cleanly. At least they’re not laying on the ground, black with cell damage.

The forecast for the next couple of days has us inching up about 10 degrees a day until we hit 80, and then it settles back down to 70s. That would be a good spring. I second the motion. All in favor?