A Week of Weather Extremes

Texas weather is certainly unpredictable and we've gotten a couple bouts of crazy weather lately. Back on the 13th we got a crazy snowstorm that tore through the area. In the end we ended up getting about 7 inches of snow and all the schools were dismissed early and traffic was crazy. It is a pretty rare thing to get a large accumulation of snow here so this was all over the news all evening long.
This is a view from our front door. And this is a view of our backyard and my poor garden. My Rosemary and Parsley stayed strong and stuck it through the snow. E and I went out and played in it after his nap and he helped me make a huge snowman. We came in and had "chocolate soup" aka hot chocolate and enjoyed being cozy in our nice, warm house.

Well, just this past week we've been enjoying 70-90 degree weather! We go from 7 inches of snow to 90 degrees! What in the world! On Saturday, E and I headed out to the "tool store" (Lowe's) to pick up all the gardening items that I needed to plant my garden. This year I dug out 1 of my Rosemary plants and 1 of my Parsley plants since they are both huge and taking up way too much room. We got 2 strawberry plants, 2 Roma tomato plants, 2 basil plants, and then a package of cucumber seeds and green onion seeds. So I planted all that on Saturday so we'll see how my garden goes this year. I still want to get a couple of Cilantro plants since I used that a ton last year.


Now today we're expecting 3+ inches of rain and tornado watches throughout the day and for tonight. Gotta love Texas!