What's this? 86 degrees?

  Really warm today. 86 on my thermometer, and the low was 65. At 8 AM this morning, we were 67 and my kin in eastern Colorado were 10! This afternoon we were 86 and they were 24! That storm is coming here tomorrow. We won't be nearly that cold but the possibility exists for severe weather alerts.

The Candytuft and Phlox are liking this weather.

And the Forsythia is finally at full bloom, with the Red Bud tree opening up.

  With 1.5 " of rain expected tomorrow in a short period of time, the creek will probably overflow onto the pasture for a few hours. So I wanted to get down there today and clean out the winter debris that messed up my fences in the creek. The cows will get out when I turn them in there if I don't clean it out and re-attach the fence. Here is what it looked like before I cleaned it out.

  I took an "after" picture, but it didn't turn out. I need to take the chain saw down there and do a little more cleanup, then have a nice bonfire. 

  The grass is growing but it sure isn't normal for April 10. I guess that is the case in much of the country. I know some of you had a freeze yesterday and lost some things. My condolences.. that is tough to take.