We finally get spring and now it snows again.

Not much chance for warmth up here. On Sunday it is going to be 42 degrees F, and that means still cold. I can hardly wait until it gets up to the 70s.

It is now almost June, and I am afraid we will have a cold spell, like one day of below zero. When we lived in Saskatoon, no one dared to plant until the first week of June because even though May was lovely and warm there was one day in the beginning of June that it suddenly froze. I know there is Indian summer, but I wonder what they call this: Indian winter?

That sounds like Manitoba. We seem to have only two seasons Summer and Winter. Either it is too cold or too hot. The trouble is I prefer it too hot while the most people here prefer it too cold. Now I suppose there will be one cold day in June when everything freezes.

We just switched to the Weather Channel. This afternoon looked gorgeous, but it is chilly. It is chilly in the house because it is an old house and once it gets cold, it stays that way.

Before we insulted our attic, it got really cold in the winter and sweltering in the summer. We really have to finish our basement, but cannot do it until my husband gets well enough to walk down the basement steps. Now it is summer and the weather is wonderful and we did not get that surprise snow storm.
But we did get rain. Came down in buckets.

Thank goodness the warm weather has arrived. I really should go for a walk today, but I am waiting for a parcel to arrive. I hope they have not returned it. It is just a small package and can fit in the mailbox. I hope that today being July 4th stopped it. Or maybe those horrible Canadian customs officials are busy tearing it apart. The meanies.
This summer looks like a good one.

You're lucky. We can have snow way into June up here. It does not stay long, but if it freezes one night, we have to cover our plants. I just have strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries so I am lucky, but for those who plant tomatoes and peppers (wish I had a garden( they have to cover them or the plants freeze to death. I used to live in Saskatchewan and we had to wait until the first week of June to plant anything. Now it is nice and warm but it is threatening rain.

Global warming is a scam to transfer money from the rich western world to the poor Asian and African world. Problem it does not work. Food prices go sky high and that means no one can afford to donate to the poor countries. It still gets 40 to 60 below in January up here. I would think that in Southern California it is hot a lot of the time. Also God is in charge of the weather, not man and the cure for this false global warming would be horrible in cost of human lives and would put us into the dark ages or worse, into an area where live is cheap

I hope not. We sometimes get snow in June here and then we get really worried because by then the gardens have been planted. We do not have one, except for the blueberries, strawberries, and the raspberries. But now we have to worry about the birds. They are so bold here they step aside when you walk on the sidewalk, they just do not fly off.

We always have weird weather here in Manitoba. Like it is now June and last week we had this horrific thunderstorm, and before that it was hot as blazes. And sometimes I go out in the morning, it is so cold I need my jacket and have to wear slacks, but then I wish I had worn my shorts. Oh and after that thunderstorm, the soil quickly dried up and I just planted some blueberry bushes. However the soil is quite rich around them. It is surprising we did not see any banana trees springing up as well.

Just wait those banana trees will soon be there.

I would not be surprised.

It did snow one day in May. But the rest of the month was all right. And now it is June and we did not get that zero freezing overnight, so we can now plant some stuff, that if my husband decides that we need a garden, but he probably won't because he thinks of a garden like those large vegetable gardens they had on the farm back in Saskatoon, where there was a foot between everything.

really just need enough room for the plants to grow and only need to plant what the 2 of you will eat.
If ya want a garden why dont you plant!?

My husband does not want me to have one. He thinks it is like on the farm where I would be weeding from sunup to sundown. I was thinking of getting those container boxes and putting them near the back door, but I am on a budget and I would have to pay for it myself. He has the whole back in grass and he hates mowing the lawn. We were thinking of landscaping, but it would cost at least $3,000. I already planted the two blueberry bushes and they are doing okay and a while ago I started the strawberry patch and I also planted some coriander.

well that could be just enough for you to tend too

We plan to put in a concrete block in the back for the bbq and patio and I would like someone to come in, rip up the backyard, and do some landscaping, but it would cost at least three thousand dollars and we still have not done the basement yet.
Oh and now it is summer, the weather is wonderful, except when it rains.
I bought the blueberry plants, but could not afford to buy the container tomatoes or the box to plant some lettuce and salad stuff.

wel thats how it goes sometimes we have about 15 tomatoe all different sizes growing on the 2 plants a few tring to rippen but something ate on one that was touching the grownd dont know just how they are gonna turn out!

When we had tomatoes, we used to have trouble with the cutworms. So we would put newspapers around them, and then we bought some of those tomato cages and it helped.

idnt have cut worms this year.
and Iput 7 dust on them keeps them away for good.
They vines just dried up and died from the heat thats why they are gone!

We have had some hot spells, but we do have rain and when it rains it rains for two days. Yet after that, it is if it never rained at all because it gets very hot.

Sounds like Tenn. weather I hated it was always so muggy after the rains stopped

It is supposed to be raining now but I guess with our weatherman no longer in Winnipeg they probably use the rock method. If it is wet it's raining if it is burning up it's hot.

lol I guess I watch the humity and the dew point they get above 60 it will rain some where in the valley

I got the weather thing on the computer. My mother-in-law used to watch the Weather Channel all the time to see if it changed from second to second. I told her that she does not have to. I just look at the sky and if it is ominous, it is going to rain.

that doesnt work here the skys can be heavy with rain clouds and it don rain!
REally has to have the dew point and humidity way up there together

The clouds are dark and we know that it is going to rain the next day.