Beating the rain

That's me on today's weather movie, between 10am-noon, driving my lawn tractor while spreading crabgrass control and some fertilizer. I nearly froze to death, but I wanted to get the stuff down ahead of this rain which rolled in mid-afternoon.

Timing is crucial with this crabgrass stuff. The weed seeds are already on the soil. With just a few warm days, the seeds will germinate. You have to get the chemical down before germination or it's useless. I hope we timed it right.

Be sure to click on Links/Meterologists-Local. There are links there to Tom Will's and John Belski's blogs which really give a valuable insight into local conditions. Here's an interesting entry from Tom Will's blog for today:

"The average high temperature for Louisville hit 50 degrees today! Meteorological winter is December, January and February. But, in the past 2-3 decades, data has shown that 'spring' has been arriving anywhere from a few days to two weeks EARLIER than during the first half of the 20th century. So, it looks like our Spring is here, at least statistically!"