My lovely wife of 1 year is working her ass off, so has been too busy to do anything worth blogging about except work. So, it is up to me! Now watch as I involve frost, canola and turtles in the one blog entry.
The weather had warmed up, and we were getting balmy humid days close to 30 °C. We had planted our garden and were looking forward to things to come.
Then..., things changed. North Carolina experienced one of its coldest Aprils, EVER. At 4 AM on the 8th the temperature dropped below -4 °C over much of the state and even colder in certain locations. Please see the graph.
This is what the cold did to our poor tomatoes. We think they might get better. Other people were not so lucky. The west of the state lost it entire apple crop and other farmers suffered major damage to their crops as well. Ah, climate change.
In other news, I have been off madly setting up experiments in various places. This is a picture of the really big farm on the coast (of which I have previously blogged) where some of our experiment are. This is my work car parked next to a large drain.
And this picture is of our Canola field. Pretty, ain't it.
And here is a turtle that came up out of one of the drains to lay eggs. I think it is cool beacuse it has moss growing on it. Conclusively demonstrating that turtles, at least this species, are not rolling stones....
And here is a turtle that came up out of one of the drains to lay eggs. I think it is cool beacuse it has moss growing on it. Conclusively demonstrating that turtles, at least this species, are not rolling stones.... 
2 comments:
Mmm, frozen Canola. I call it, Fronola! It's like a slushpuppy that makes you really fat really quick...
You sure its not a Rolling Stone?
It looks like it would be up for snorting its Dad's ashes.
cheers, Tim.
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