Paul, hopefully you'll have enough snow on the ground to protect your succulents/yuccas.

Barrie, I'm ready to trade with you. 😐

Barb

Well here comes the Pineapple express. The next couple of days are 10 c or 50 f. It is going to be one hell of a mess.

John

Yes John. Southwestern portions of Vancouver Island where hit very hard and Sooke Rd is washed out, isolating the community from the rest of the island.
All this system has given us here along the corridor from Parksville to Chemainus is light rain at worst. I was outside all afternoon yesterday and was fine. Same story here today but no rain at all.

Cheers, Barrie.

Jeez, snow is moving 😯 😯

Baby avalanches at my place (horizontal "rips" at bottom third of picture):

And good luck to all the folks suffering from flooding.

...an earthquake in Costa Rica, yet another in California, lots of shakin' all year in Alaska.
Oh man!
Barb

I hope there's no risk of an avalanche directed at your property?
Again, no rain here. A small amount yesterday in the early afternoon which lasted about an hour maybe.
Big floods in the Fraser Valley and low flood plain areas. Chehalis WA was hit hard and many evacuated.

Cheers, Barrie.

Fortunately, nights are still a bit below zero C, so the big melt (and the baby avalanches) have ended for the time being.
I think my place will be OK, as there is less snow up "our mountain" than around the house.

About 20 years ago our area had a really fast snowmelt and the neighbour's house got hit with a mudslide from above.
The mud nailed the back of the house, and came through the top plate into the basement. What a mess.

I really feel for the folks in BC and Washington affected by the floods.

Heard a great idea yesterday...to thaw frozen eavestroughs and downspouts, throw road salt onto the roof.
Two cautions: wear safety glasses, and direct SALTY downspout water away from foundation plants.

Barb

Heard a great idea yesterday...to thaw frozen eavestroughs and downspouts, throw road salt onto the roof.
Two cautions: wear safety glasses, and direct SALTY downspout water away from foundation plants.

Humm ... I don't have that problem here Barb. What I did do yesterday was shovel (by hand) 10,000 lbs of snow off the back portion of my deck. No word of a lie, as I was able to calculate the area I cleared of 8 inches wet heavy snow. 45' x 17', the portion of deck that is on the NW side and gets little melting effects. There are a couple of structural issues I have to deal with as a result of the extra weight. Spring won't come a day too soon 😐 .

Glad to here you're out of the danger zone.

Cheers, Barrie.

Thanks Barrie

shovel (by hand) 10,000 lbs of snow off the back portion of my deck.

Bet you need a massage now...
I'd be in a body cast if I tried to shovel all that snow. 😆

Hopefully your GH is intact after all that heavy snow.

Spring won't come a day too soon

Jeez, I'm going to kiss the ground...as soon as I can find it 😆

Barb

Greenhouse is intact and plenty of green grass but the heaps of snow will last quite some time.
Another upside to the snow keeping the beer cold, there's always a good cardio workout when shoveling.
I'm way more active than my dad (RIP) was at the same age I am. Moving to Mexico might seem nice but I'd bet I'd get lazy there. (Maybe)

Cheers, Barrie.

Good that the GH wasn't damaged from heavy snow.

Today our friends are leaving for Arizona...

Anybody see the HGTV gardening show Friday "around the world in 80 gardens"?
They featured Australia and New Zealand...oooh, those tree ferns and palms sure looked good.
It was great just looking at an area with 365-days to grow things... 😀 😀

I'd get lazy there, too, Barrie.
Barb

Great show Barb...it looks super swell in HD!

PalmettomanZ6-Ajax, On

Looked darn good in Low D 😆 😆

For me, the trick is to kinda ignore the narrator (not a botanist, just a "muser/babbler").
I may turn the sound off to truly enjoy next Friday's show.

Barb

Ha ha.....Muser?...haven't heard that one in a while Barb??

Yeah the host looked pretty overwhelmed, you might be right....silence is golden.

Were looking at nitetime lows here tonite at -16C...the wind is just blazin..all my in ground palms are going to get a little warmth tonite..i will try and keep the palm enclosures around 0C....tomorrow nitetime lows are -20C...yikes!!

PalmettomanZ6-Ajax, On

Winter is made worse by high winds.
Hopefully your fence minimizes the wind around your plant enclosures.

Brrrrr....Yikes indeed.
Here's to no power outages.

Barb

Barb....You are a kean observer...yes..that fence helps block out those north westerlies..and those are set to push the windchill's to -30C overnight...last night I bottomed out at -19C in my yard...the coldest night of the winter...so far!

By contrast, sweet jasmine is now blooming in my garage greenhouse at about +15C...

I guess your all enjoying those above 0C temps...

PalmettomanZ6-Ajax, On