weather and spuds

overnight yesterday's rain...

became very wet snow...

but not before the rainfall total for the month reached 4.5" by my gauges...eclipsing the "average" january rainfall by 3.01"...the "average" january snowfall is 8.94"...i will posit somewhere round three at the very most and it has not been long lived...the "january thaw" has encompassed much of the months so far and barring a fair blizzard the snowfall will fall short ( which is not going to do my winter wheat any good )...

that there is standing water out in the fields can be chalked up to precipitation and the fact that the ground is frozen below and inch or so ( at least in my yard )...still i am wondering just how rainy a winter this will be and how that will impact spring...last may was sodden and there are still fallow fields all over the landscape here...one wonders just what all this rain is telegraphing...if anything...so the rain gauge stays our for the nonce and we continue to watch...we are well ahead in terms of rain this year...we will see if the trend continues...

meanwhile the transplanted basadres downstairs under the lights are looking robust and a fine shade of green...

the larger of the two has some flower buds on one stem...the other had some as well however they fell off the plant spontaneously...clearly conditions were not right...one expects these will fail as well, although there is still hope while they are attached...blooms would be pleasing...