It's so warm and dry here that we ran the sprinklers today. My roses are still fully leafed out. Tomorrow is supposed to be 60, then maybe colder after that. i found a bag of bulbs I forgot to plant, so hopefully I'll get that done tomorrow. Should be easy digging. The pond freezes at night except where the geothermal pipe dumps in. The geese and ducks love having some open water when it's frozen every place else. Our paper said we're ahead for the winter on moisture since we got 5" inches of rain the week before Christmas, but we haven't had but a tiny trace of snow, so we're 3rd on the all-time least snow list. Really would like to get some snow for insulation from the bitter wind.
I sure didn't expect to be painting outdoors in January! If I had known...I would have asked for that Palatine order to come in November. My luck, we'll get late season snow and ice when they do mail them in March. The roses I brought back from San Diego in December are doing just fine, planted and covered with bark mulch. I lucked out there, big time!
