Weather getting colder

It’s Springtime now literally in earth application if not reality on the calendar or solar cycle, but NOW according to accuweather, when earlier today it wasn’t slated to be this bad, they have the weather turning absolutly below normal temps for the fullness of the 15-day outlook starting this coming Saturday, the 18th thru to the 28th (all that shows on the 15-day outlook). 🙁

Last normal freeze is March 15, that’s tomorrow. All of the sudden they are showing on accuweather that we’ll have freezing temperatures finally in the last half of March, but it’s not like that’ll be our highs, so it’s that the daily highs will be in the 50’s at the most, which is colder for this time of the year than normal, plus the overnight temps being in the high 30’s and then getting to be mid to lower and then below freezing and further down to 29 or so some nights. Whooo, it’s nuts. Mildest Winter in how long, now the end of a lovely start to March, nice blooming and growing everything almost, and it’s going to get colder, they say, how will that affect things? Hopefully the weather outlook will actually not be that bad when those slated dates actually come.

Today is cooler than the last four or so days have been, and the winds are gusty. Right now it’s 55 degrees, but the sun is going down soon, so temps are decreasing. They say it’ll get down to 32 tonight. 🙁 But the next few days it’ll be normal temps of highs in the 60’s and nights in the high 40’s, and then that’s when everything is supposed to start going downhill, with daytime in the very low 60’s Friday and Saturday, in the high 30’s at night, then going down worse on Sunday and Monday to the low 40’s for highs, and low 30’s for lows (some lower and then some higher) then and continuing to the last of the 15-day outlook, but the daytime temps at least go up to the mid-50’s overall for the remaining days of the 15-day outlook.

Frustrating when it’s been balmy, hot (to me mid 70’s is hot), Spring allergy season, and nice enough to go barefoot outside most all the time, wear lighter clothing and actually wish for a/c a few times, and wear sandals going somewhere … think hard about getting out summer clothing for the children and take stock in what new things I need to get ASAP (like sandals for both the boys) and see that I really still need some decent summer dresses, which I never got last year. Now it’ll be pulling back to wearing socks again and putting on shoes sometimes, and wearing more clothing. Bummer.

I hope plants do alright. I must say it dismays me since one of the Peonies has a good six inches or more of plant material growing upward, putting out leaves already. Mostly the others are just the initial spikes, but that one is putting itself in danger. I’ll have to do something for it today, and already don’t feel like going out there, I’ve been lying down all afternoon with a semi-migraine, trying to keep it at bay. It’s gusty today, allergy pollen counts have been high for days, and that makes windy days highly allergic. I’m itchy and scratchy and a mess already.

Well because of that we stayed home on Sunday, then decided to go to the Smokies to do a day hike. We did Grotto Falls on the Trillium Gap Trail … a little more than 2 miles roundtrip, a moderate rated trail. I struggled for breath often, it really is a moderate trail, and it was fun. We hadn’t hiked it in a long time (it’s accessed via the Roaring Fork Motor Trail which is found at #8 turn in Gatlinburg.) We’ve been lazy and I am SO VERY out of shape. Anyhow, I had my Canon Digital Rebel, took way over one hundred and fourty photos, some are trash, but I got many good ones. I printed out a pile of them with my Epson Picture Mate, a dedicated 4×6 Durabright ink photo printer. I need to get some of them up on Flickr … I have a pro account there and haven’t uploaded a thing at all practically since getting it, to my shame. Honestly though I haven’t been very inspired with my camera, so it was a delight to have inspiration all around me on Sunday in the lovely mountains approx. 3 hrs. from home.

When I get something going on Flickr I’ll include the best of the best on a post here. It was good hiking, and the state of the mountains was pre-spring mostly while having nice 60’s and a bit lower as we got higher, so allergies weren’t an issue mostly. Lower down Spring was starting, and things looked to be how they were by us a couple of weeks ago … so we were there at a good time to escape the horrors of the allergy season by us for just a day, and get a jump start on excercise, hopefully get more going on one of the machines we own at home that are totally unused [Dh needs to spot me on one, and I won’t do any excercise alone, I’m an introvert but totally unmotivated by myself … and it’s hard to get Dh the extrovert interested to actually DO something about it with introvert me. 🙁 He agrees we should work out at home, but the actual doing of it … well … it’s nice to buy the machine here and that one there and then let them sit. Not nice really. Nope.]

I’m not fat, just that pooky unmuscled tummy in a woman of late 30’s age after 3 babies and one miscarriage. I just need to get my abs in better shape and get more muscles tuned up in legs and arms, etc. Dh has a massive job to do in what he let go, each time I had a baby he got fatter, and he’s increased in girth because of that and age and not excercising really, so now he’s 40 and has to do something about it, like we’ve talked about many times for 10 years now. :rolleyes: hopefully you read this deary and make a date with me to do something and just do it for real. Abs baby, abs, good place to start for the both of us. Couple that with hiking every few weeks and we’ll be on a better plane for energy, than we’ve had for awhile.

I don’t go for any excercise but natural nature hikes and the like, and indoor machines, like weight training, we have a bow flex for that. We used it once and I LOVED it, but that’s all my salesman husband could muster in time and motivation. 🙁 We have another machine now and it was supposed to get DH motivated and should have, but didn’t. You know how it is, you have to MAKE TIME, and MAKE it happen, just like sales … but this is really more important and harder to follow through. So an embarrassing blog post might do what is needed … I hope. 🙂