October 5, 2012 - An Early Freeze

We woke up to a lawn covered with frost this morning, and an outside temperature of 32F.  It doesn't look like I lost any plants out in the garden, but record lows in the high 20s or low 30s are expected this week, so I guess I'd better get myself out there to pick all the remaining peppers and tomatoes.  Winter is coming about a week early this year, as we don't usually get our first frost until around the 10th of October.

On a brighter note, we have our new windows and doors!  I must say, after the original error on the order (the wrong color on the frames), which delayed the job by a full week, the installers did a beautiful job.  It took two days to put in 10 windows and two sliding glass doors, and get everything caulked and trimmed.  They look great, and the new vinyl framed doors are so much better at keeping out the cold than the old aluminum frames.  The almond color looks very nice with the new paint color and the almond front door and garage doors.  I had pre-painted all of the trim the same color as the house, so now all I have to do is touch up paint around the outside edges to cover the caulking.  I hope our daytime temperatures warm up again, as I still don't have the facia boards painted out front, and we have to buy and install new rain gutters, too.

I'm looking forward to having all the outside work finished soon.  I'm ready to sit in front of the fireplace and do nothing for the entire winter.

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  1. Sorry to hear you have joined the frosty garden group..lol At least it sounds like you didn't lose anything!

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    1. Mrs. P., hard frost predicted for tonight, so I had to pick all the peppers and most of the tomatoes.

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  2. Looking forward to you having a cozy winter! I'm actually thinking of making a hoop over my pepper beds to overwinter them. Crazy? Naaah.

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    1. Stefaneener, I was really thinking about bringing in a potted pepper, but it would have to live in my living room all winter. I'd better hurry and make up my mind, as it's supposed to get down to 29 tonight.

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  3. Brrr. We usually get our first frost at the end of October. We will have some 30s next week so anything is possible. Only the beans and squash are not frost hardy. The squash dying would be a godsend really. I keep refusing to pull them out since there are some squash turning orange. They have no chance of getting ripe, but still I wait.

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    1. Daphne, we usually get a killing frost for one night mid-October, then the weather turns lovely and warm for a couple of weeks. It looks like our killer is predicted to hit tonight.

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  4. WHAT THE HECK? A freeze? Wow, I guess I forget that fact in the rest of the country that October can bring freezing. We won't freeze until late November maybe even December (usually). Time to get out those seed catalogs and start planning! ha. Enjoy the snuggling weather!

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    1. 1st. Man, seems like yesterday I was planting the spring garden! I need to find my Snuggie!

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  5. I envy you your frost...we're HOT here and I'm just plain tired of it!

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    1. Lynda, I'm not quite ready for it, but not terribly sorry to see the garden season end. Not looking forward to all the garden cleanup though!

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  6. Annie do nothing?!?!!!!! Naw! Can't believe that! Nancy

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    1. Well, Nancy, I might have a bathroom to paint. And some bedroom windowsills and woodwork. I can't sit still for long, LOL!

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  7. Second post I've read today that mentions the F word. I've actually had to put the heating on here, but in my head it's still summer!

    Well, it's still raining like it did all summer!

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    1. IG, we haven't had a drop of rain since August, when we got a whopping .20". Our precipitation has only been measured in fractions since we got 1.77 inches last June. January and March were the only other months we got any rain, just over an inch each of those two months.

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  8. We haven't gotten a frost yet, but we are getting close... glad you didn't lose anything in the garden.

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