Blackberry Winter

On April 30th, 2012 at 10:50pm whitew said:

Jerry, that is excellent news. We have a lot of birds come through the winter in excellent shape, thanks to the abnormally mild weather. Unlike several previous winters. Hopefully we will not have a cool, wet nesting season again and these birds can produce some offspring. We have not had a dry nesting season since around 2004.

On April 30th, 2012 at 9:19pm Jerry Tracy said:

I've really been hearing a lot of quail here around the house. In fact I was outside this evening doing some spraying and was listening to 2 or 3 birds right up by the house. I was standing out by the road next to my fence and the neighbor drove up and stopped and said he'd been seeing and hearing some bobwhites. I said yeah, aint it a nice sound!! He agreed and said that he really enjoyed hearing 'em whistle. THAT made me feel pretty good!!

On April 30th, 2012 at 4:07pm whitew said:

Bruce, you bring the blackberries, I will make the cobbler!!!  

On April 27th, 2012 at 11:55am Bruce said:

Bill, does that mean you're making black berry cobbler for everyone? Bruce

On April 27th, 2012 at 11:27am Jerry Tracy said:

Woke up yesterday morning to a male bobby whistleing outside my bedroom window, sure does beat the heck out of the alarm clock!! Then I got out of bed and walked to the back door and seen a male/female pair milling around down by the tractor shed. Sure was a nice sight and sound so early in the morning. Really made it hard to go to work.

On April 22nd, 2012 at 2:57pm Jerry Tracy said:

Well so much for not having any frost or freezes. We had a HEAVY frost here on Saturday morning with the truck thermometer showing 31 and there was a lot of white on the grass. I checked my shrub plantings and everthing looked to be okay with just a few having some leaves that have turned brown or yellow. On a brighter note, I've been hearing quite a few quail whistleing around the farm with at least two different females answering the males.

On April 22nd, 2012 at 1:32pm Nann Flowers said:

I was setting my tomatoes and flowers in yesterday when a neighbor stopped by and said, You know it's going to frost, right?". Argh!! I waited as long as I could stand it!

On April 16th, 2012 at 8:08am rob slattery said:

An old WW2 weather forecaster from little Rock AR used to call it the Easter Cold Snap...and he would say "You can always count on the Easter cold snap". "Don't plant until after the Easter cold snap, wait until the first warm days in early May".

On April 16th, 2012 at 7:02am Nancy Hinnah said:

Don't think the frost hurt my peach trees at all. It was very light here at Portland.

On April 16th, 2012 at 6:35am J.Saunders said:

My Dad always counted on Blacberry Winters to make those Berries Good. He enjoyed picking them to make Cobblers and Pies. Mmm Good.

On April 15th, 2012 at 8:57pm Jerry Tracy said:

It definately cooled off here in Fair Grove but we didn't have any frost or freeze that I know of. I have enjoyed these nice rains we've gotten over the past two days and it couldn't have come at a better time as I had just planted 750 shrubs as part of a quail habitat improvement project two weeks ago and they were needing some rain.