Is it Summer Yet!?

Remember last summer and all the camping out in the back yard that went on? Well, with all the warm weather we've had in the last week quite a bit of the snow melted off the back yard, enough so that the back corner of the yard had a pretty good sized spot of bare grass showing. So of course it needed to be camped on. And Himbeere and Schwarzebeere were just the guys to do it.

This was Friday, March 6th. The high that day was 42. That's warm enough, right? So up went the tents. Long about 9:30, when they went out to go to bed, it had dropped down to 30. Around 2:00 am, when they both came in for another sleeping bag it was only 28. That's not so bad, is it? Around 6:00 am, when they gave up and came inside, it was starting to get warm again; clear back up to 30.

Once inside they both slept until 10:00. Sleeping when you're cold is hard work. Later on Saturday the tents came down, which was a good thing. Today (Sunday) it has been snowing all afternoon. We have about 4 inches on the ground now and its still snowing. No more bare spots in the yard to put a tent on.