The Daily Bucket is a place to catch your casual observations of the natural world and turn them into a valuable resource. Whether it's the first flowers of spring or that odd bug in your basement, don't be afraid to toss your thoughts into the bucket. Check here for a more complete description.
My observation for today? Weekends are too short. Shocking, I know. I suspect that some kind of distortion of the space time continuum is involved, because I could swear that the whole weekend was much shorter than half a work day.
This weekend was the first monthly Daily Kos Day Hike. Several of our regular backyard scientists made it out into the woods and returned with pictures, but many more were trapped inside by weather or other obligations. Whether you were able to lace on your boots or not, start thinking about April 30 as a potential date for the next Daily Kos Day Hike.
The warm ground around here has pretty well eliminated all signs of the weekend's heavy thunder-show. With sunshine and temperatures in the 40s, we're back to being something that passes for a (coolish) version of spring. The snow certainly didn't seem to slow down the plants, as red buds are now brightening up the woods and signs of green are appearing everywhere. I'll try to get a fuller catalog of plant status around my place later this week.
I got several trays of tomatoes planted in little peat cups. Those will be heading for the new greenhouse tonight. Now if I can only remember they're out there and stop from either freezing them, baking them, or dehydrating them for a couple of weeks until they hit the ground.
If you weren’t around the site yesterday, the Sunday version of the Daily Bucket included info on how the map at the end of these diaries is made and how you can do something similar in your own diaries.
So what's going on around your place?
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Share your own observations in comments, and I'll add a marker to the map. Please give a city and state (as close as you feel comfortable in providing). Green pins for observations mostly about plants, brown for animals, and blue for weather or other inorganic items. The letter at the center of each pin will be the first letter of the user who provides the data.