Same here on Cape Cod. My garlic popped up last week.
The seasons (time) has it’s own clock.
My Tulips are coming up, as are some other bulbs. Waiting for others to show. Fruit Trees are blooming. Apricot always early, and always have at least on day below freezing, so get very if any fruit. Plumb may have survived the cold to give me Plumbs. Bartlet Pear is in full glorious bloom. Apple and Peach not yet. Always hope that I had little winter kill on flowers.
Been way too dry. The other day it was almost 90, yesterday did not reach 60. Cool again today, but will hit 90 again in a few days.
Here, after 336″ of snow so far, there’s still just under four feet on the ground. It’s been warming up, but still below freezing. Nobody plants a garden until after Memorial Day.
Luckily, I like the winter and take a perverse kind of pleasure in bad weather. I’m sure that’s some kind of mental disorder. Something that could surely be corrected by a sex change and an electric car.
After experiencing over 40 years of New England coming into spring, it’s been a bit confusing here in FL after this record breaking winter. Two weeks ago we were at normal, then last week hit with two consecutive days of light frost…another record for March. The banana tree is making a comeback, the hibiscus probably haven’t survived, and our palms look very sick. The expert advice on the palms is to wait until May before giving up.
Cornflour,
It almost sounds like Northern Montana where I cowboyed for a while.
Interesting article about how to fight Iran’s decentralized “mosaic”;defense.
“By remaining unpredictable, the U.S./Israeli alliance exploits the Mosaic’s biggest weakness: its inability to adapt to fast-moving situations. Washington’s lack of a publicly articulated war plan may be infuriating to the media, but it may be the single most devastating asset against the waiting network. Who wins? The Mosaic defense may yet prevail, but inherent inflexibility was always its Achilles Heel and the coalition can be expected to exploit it. It might have worked against a “proper,” predictable president. It may fare less well against the current president.”
I have been wondering to whom Trump is talking during this voluntary five-day pause on attacks on Iranian power infrastructure. He says he’s found some people he considers worth talking to. Also, on Fox News, an analyst said about 1500 Iranian civilians have been killed by allied forces since March 1st. Considering what’s been unleashed on the country, that’s an incredibly small number, a testimony to American and Israeli precision bombing.
Kate, but to the Left it means that Trump is a murderer
The Left is currently populated with crazy people.
Hey! What happened to long-sleeve weather?
Here in Abq I went from thick sweater to t-shirt in about a week.
In the Sunday Seattle Times, there is a full-page editorial cartoon purporting to quote John Adams, the second President, about a person of his times who is a scoundrel, inhabiting the White House.
The cartoon is elaborate and entertaining, including a Secretary of War wearing a Viking helmet, but the quote that pulls it all together, and alludes to Trump, is entirely fictitious!
The cartoon states flatly that this is a John Adams quote, but according to several searches by AI, it is completely false, and uncharacteristic of writing style of the period.
Yes, it is obvious that a quote from Adams cannot be relevant to Trump except as an entertainment, but is a completely fabricated quote, with explicit claims that it is “real”, even justifiable as entertainment? Doesn’t the Times have any standards at all?
To me this just seals the deal that the political opposition (and thus the media) cares not a whit about the safety of this country, but is driven purely by Trump-hatred, a purpose to which it will sacrifice any value and risk any calamity.
Hi Bob Wilson,
“From your mouth to Goodness’s ear”.
I sincerely mean that.
I hope that is the strategy. If that is the strategy, then I think that it is working.
Cheers.
Kate,
The world is run by crazy people.
I’m sorry this man is at loose ends with few options at age 55. He worked for Reuters for 27 years and was promoted to bureau chief. You can see how his imagination fills in the blanks of what he doesn’t know. It’s not a loss to the public that he’s no longer in the news business.
== https://stevescherer.substack.com/p/my-journey-from-foreign-correspondent
Poor Steve, he is the wrong sex, the wrong color, and appears to have skills only in the weaving of fairy tales. That the market had no interest in. And in cruel Canada they won’t let illegal immigrants work or overstay visas!
Couldn’t find a bathroom, Steve? Take a bottle next time. Lern to cod.
My potatoes have started coming up.
Spring is here. Today I saw the first dandelion in my yard.
Mark Levin is scheduled to interview Joe Kent on his radio show in the third hour 17:00 – 18:00 PST. That would be 21:00-22:00 EST?
Could be interesting, although many find Mark Levin’s style off-putting.
Physicsguy,
Hope your palms make it.
Just wait until the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle shows up in Florida. Frost has nothing on them.
Crocuses in bloom and scillia in bud, here.
Also. rooting dandelions from the garden.
As with Shirehome, my daffodils have been up since February, my first tulip bloomed either yesterday or today (I didn’t look Sunday), and my other bulbs are going strong.
So are the dandelions and other weeds.
I’m still too “unbalanced” (not in the Democrat sense!) to work in the yard, but my neurologist, who I saw today, said I was doing well. Individual responses to my kind of tumor surgery & nerve recovery are too idiosyncratic to even make a statistical “normal curve” to measure progress.
At least I’m well enough to read the news and type on the computer!
PS I don’t read all of the comments anymore, so apologies proactively if I post a link or say something that duplicates someone else’s work, or step into a controversy I didn’t know was happening.
Cornflour on March 23, 2026 at 11:46 am:
“Something that could surely be corrected by a sex change and an electric car.”
Or perhaps electric sex and changing to a different car? 🙂
@AesopFan: your contributions to Neo’s blog threads have been so substantial over the years that it is difficult to imagine there was ever a time or place that you didn’t know what was happening. Welcome back – good health to you.
New post, reacting to the UK’s decision to eliminate historical figures (Churchill, Turing, Austen, Turner) from the currency and replace them with…wildlife.
Same here on Cape Cod. My garlic popped up last week.
The seasons (time) has it’s own clock.
My Tulips are coming up, as are some other bulbs. Waiting for others to show. Fruit Trees are blooming. Apricot always early, and always have at least on day below freezing, so get very if any fruit. Plumb may have survived the cold to give me Plumbs. Bartlet Pear is in full glorious bloom. Apple and Peach not yet. Always hope that I had little winter kill on flowers.
Been way too dry. The other day it was almost 90, yesterday did not reach 60. Cool again today, but will hit 90 again in a few days.
Here, after 336″ of snow so far, there’s still just under four feet on the ground. It’s been warming up, but still below freezing. Nobody plants a garden until after Memorial Day.
Luckily, I like the winter and take a perverse kind of pleasure in bad weather. I’m sure that’s some kind of mental disorder. Something that could surely be corrected by a sex change and an electric car.
After experiencing over 40 years of New England coming into spring, it’s been a bit confusing here in FL after this record breaking winter. Two weeks ago we were at normal, then last week hit with two consecutive days of light frost…another record for March. The banana tree is making a comeback, the hibiscus probably haven’t survived, and our palms look very sick. The expert advice on the palms is to wait until May before giving up.
Cornflour,
It almost sounds like Northern Montana where I cowboyed for a while.
Interesting article about how to fight Iran’s decentralized “mosaic”;defense.
“By remaining unpredictable, the U.S./Israeli alliance exploits the Mosaic’s biggest weakness: its inability to adapt to fast-moving situations. Washington’s lack of a publicly articulated war plan may be infuriating to the media, but it may be the single most devastating asset against the waiting network. Who wins? The Mosaic defense may yet prevail, but inherent inflexibility was always its Achilles Heel and the coalition can be expected to exploit it. It might have worked against a “proper,” predictable president. It may fare less well against the current president.”
https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2026/03/23/belmont-club-cracking-the-mosaic-defense-n4950950
I have been wondering to whom Trump is talking during this voluntary five-day pause on attacks on Iranian power infrastructure. He says he’s found some people he considers worth talking to. Also, on Fox News, an analyst said about 1500 Iranian civilians have been killed by allied forces since March 1st. Considering what’s been unleashed on the country, that’s an incredibly small number, a testimony to American and Israeli precision bombing.
Kate, but to the Left it means that Trump is a murderer
The Left is currently populated with crazy people.
Hey! What happened to long-sleeve weather?
Here in Abq I went from thick sweater to t-shirt in about a week.
In the Sunday Seattle Times, there is a full-page editorial cartoon purporting to quote John Adams, the second President, about a person of his times who is a scoundrel, inhabiting the White House.
The cartoon is elaborate and entertaining, including a Secretary of War wearing a Viking helmet, but the quote that pulls it all together, and alludes to Trump, is entirely fictitious!
The cartoon states flatly that this is a John Adams quote, but according to several searches by AI, it is completely false, and uncharacteristic of writing style of the period.
Yes, it is obvious that a quote from Adams cannot be relevant to Trump except as an entertainment, but is a completely fabricated quote, with explicit claims that it is “real”, even justifiable as entertainment? Doesn’t the Times have any standards at all?
To me this just seals the deal that the political opposition (and thus the media) cares not a whit about the safety of this country, but is driven purely by Trump-hatred, a purpose to which it will sacrifice any value and risk any calamity.
Hi Bob Wilson,
“From your mouth to Goodness’s ear”.
I sincerely mean that.
I hope that is the strategy. If that is the strategy, then I think that it is working.
Cheers.
Kate,
The world is run by crazy people.
I’m sorry this man is at loose ends with few options at age 55. He worked for Reuters for 27 years and was promoted to bureau chief. You can see how his imagination fills in the blanks of what he doesn’t know. It’s not a loss to the public that he’s no longer in the news business.
==
https://stevescherer.substack.com/p/my-journey-from-foreign-correspondent
Poor Steve, he is the wrong sex, the wrong color, and appears to have skills only in the weaving of fairy tales. That the market had no interest in. And in cruel Canada they won’t let illegal immigrants work or overstay visas!
Couldn’t find a bathroom, Steve? Take a bottle next time. Lern to cod.
My potatoes have started coming up.
Spring is here. Today I saw the first dandelion in my yard.
Mark Levin is scheduled to interview Joe Kent on his radio show in the third hour 17:00 – 18:00 PST. That would be 21:00-22:00 EST?
Could be interesting, although many find Mark Levin’s style off-putting.
Physicsguy,
Hope your palms make it.
Just wait until the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle shows up in Florida. Frost has nothing on them.
Crocuses in bloom and scillia in bud, here.
Also. rooting dandelions from the garden.
As with Shirehome, my daffodils have been up since February, my first tulip bloomed either yesterday or today (I didn’t look Sunday), and my other bulbs are going strong.
So are the dandelions and other weeds.
I’m still too “unbalanced” (not in the Democrat sense!) to work in the yard, but my neurologist, who I saw today, said I was doing well. Individual responses to my kind of tumor surgery & nerve recovery are too idiosyncratic to even make a statistical “normal curve” to measure progress.
At least I’m well enough to read the news and type on the computer!
PS I don’t read all of the comments anymore, so apologies proactively if I post a link or say something that duplicates someone else’s work, or step into a controversy I didn’t know was happening.
Cornflour on March 23, 2026 at 11:46 am:
“Something that could surely be corrected by a sex change and an electric car.”
Or perhaps electric sex and changing to a different car? 🙂
@AesopFan: your contributions to Neo’s blog threads have been so substantial over the years that it is difficult to imagine there was ever a time or place that you didn’t know what was happening. Welcome back – good health to you.
New post, reacting to the UK’s decision to eliminate historical figures (Churchill, Turing, Austen, Turner) from the currency and replace them with…wildlife.
Destroying the Passwords
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/76303.html
(the title refers to a passage by St-Exupery)
Why has Israel defeated the global decline in fertility?
It isn’t government programs. Instead for 30 years, Israeli Jews have found meaningful optimism for the future.
If so, then this failure elsewhere explains the results we see, including our own decline. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4371939/posts
This news site posts from a Christian source, I assume, called Prophecy NewsWatch or “PNW.”
David Foster in the UKs abandonment of heritage. UKs Muslims poll with 39% supporting Theocratic Iran. (But Hamas has even more, at around f half!)
The UK ruling class is in dangerous and deep denial, and thus using (our) Wokery to embrace White Hate and racism.
@ R2L – thank you for the kind words, and good health to you as well, and to Neo and all the Neophiles.