I can’t decide if Mother Nature is a little moody or just outright batshit. But I’m really looking forward to actual spring weather. To be fair, this isn’t the first year we’ve had extreme cold and snow in April, just a couple years ago we got over 6″ of snow the first week of April, and my first spring living in this area we had snow in Mothers Day (though it didn’t stick thankfully). But that doesn’t make me any happier about it. I want spring. The ground was white with snow Saturday morning when I got up. *sigh*
Had a huge windstorm go through this past week, trees down everywhere, resulting in us losing power for almost 24hrs. Not the end of the world, the wood burning stove kept us warm, but not fun. I had to bring all the pepper plants in from the greenhouse because without power it wouldn’t stay warm enough overnight. But I left the flower seedlings I started, and amazingly enough all the flower seedlings survived it.
Tomato seedlings have been started.
I have been delighted to see a pair of Bluebirds guarding a nesting box for the last couple weeks. I spent last fall trapping as many House Sparrows as I could, and even managed to catch a few this spring, so hopefully the Bluebirds will have a fighting chance this year.
The weather has resulted in poor sales at work. This weekend is “Spring Black Friday”, big huge sales to start off the spring season. And it snowed off and on all weekend. Needless to say management isn’t happy. But such is life in Upstate NY!
I’m starting to wonder if there was a power spike when the power went out. At some point after about noon on Friday the water heater electrocuted itself. Originally it was just another burst pipe thanks to the recalled water pipe thats all over the house, I found it Saturday morning, and everything around it was saturated with water, but after fixing the pipe, and turning the water heater back on, the water it was putting out was scalding. We turned it back off till we could look at it closer, and by Sunday morning it had stopped heating completely. A closer inspection showed that the upper heating element control knob had melted. That explained that weird smell we’d both been noticing. We took a deep breath, put it down to life beating us over the head, and bought a new water heater. My FIL will be installing it later this morning. But then, while cooking supper Sunday night, my Instant Pot just quit right in the middle of cooking. And nothing I’ve done has made it turn back on. Checked the plug, checked the breaker, checked to be sure the outlet had power…..nothing. And the Pot was plugged in when the power went out. *sigh* I put in a service ticket with the IP folks, but I fully expect to be told that its out of warranty so there’s nothing to be done.
Batshit is my answer. Too much snow for April in these parts too. And cold! Below zero for another few weeks…I need green! 🙂 That really sucks about your appliances, and there is no way, even if you could prove it, that the power companies would recompense you. We are all on our own.
This weather is driving us all nuts I think!