Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quotes. Show all posts

April 20, 2010

“Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if
you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this
one out. Do something.”
–Carl Sagan

High Temperature:
Actual: 12°C mostly sunny Wind SW9km/h P.O.P.0%
Average: 13°C
Record: 27°C in 1957

Low Temperature:
Actual: -2°C mainly cloudy Wind NW9km/h P.O.P.0%
Average: 2°C
Record: -5°C in 1981

March 21, 2010

"A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows."
Doug Larson

High Temperature:
Actual: -1°C mostly cloudy Wind E12km/h P.O.P.31%
Average: 5°C
Record: 18°C in 1948

Low Temperature:
Actual: -8°C mostly cloudy Wind N14km/h P.O.P.0%
Average: -4°C
Record: -16°C in 1939

February 23, 2010

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.
~Lewis Gannit

High Temperature:
Actual: 1°C cloudy flurries Wind W12km/h P.O.P.22%
Average: 0°C
Record: 15°C in 1984

Low Temperature:
Actual: -2°C cloudy flurries .50cm Wind NW12km/h P.O.P.40%
Average: -8°C
Record: -19°C in 1972

February 14, 2010

I have a rock garden.
Last week three of them died.
- Richard Diran


High Temperature:
Actual: -7°C cloudy flurries trace Wind WNW24km/h P.O.P.37%
Average: -1°C
Record: 8°C in 1984

Low Temperature:
Actual: -10°C mostly cloudy Wind W19km/h P.O.P.25%
Average: -10°C
Record: -23°C in 1943

January 6, 2010

Old Gardeners Never Die,
They Just Spade Away.
- Unknown

High Temperature:
Actual: -8°C feels -12 mostly cloudy Wind NNW25km/h P.O.P.4%
Average: -1°C
Record: 14°C in 1946

Low Temperature:
Actual: -16°C feels -14 mostly cloudy Wind NW16km/h P.O.P.9%
Average: -9°C
Record: -26°C in 1945

March 20, 2009

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in awhile, nine out ten people couldn't start a conversation. ~ Kin Hubbard

Day -4 mostly sunny Wind NNE12km/h P.O.P.0%
Night -12 mainly clear Wind N6km/h P.O.P.0%

February 12, 2009

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
~Alfred Austin

Day +2 cloud, wind, rain/snow 11.70cm Wind WNW46km/h P.O.P.40%
Night -6 mostly cloudy, breezy, snow showers Wind NNW25km/h P.O.P.40%

January 26, 2009

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~H. Fred Ale

Day -15 sun and cloud Wind W22km/h P.O.P.0%
Night -23 cloudy flurries Wind W17km/h P.O.P.30%

January 21, 2009

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt. ~ Author Unknown

Day -12 cloudy with light flurries Winds WSW17km/h P.O.P.40%
Night -25 partly cloudy Winds WSW24km/h P.O.P.30%

January 17, 2009

Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
But they don't get around
Like the dandelions do.
~Slim Acres


Day -8 wc-16 cloudy cold flurries Wind SSW17km/h P.O.P.37%
Night -8 wc-19 breezy with snow Wind SSE22km/h P.O.P.61%

January 2, 2009

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~ Chinese Proverb

Day -7 cloudy Wind WSW24km/h P.O.P.21%
Night -13 mostly cloudy light flurries Wind W24km/h P.O.P.40%

December 28, 2008

They know, they just know where to grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just know, and therefore, I've concluded weeds must have brains.
~Dianne Benson, Dirt, 1994


Day +10 rain with thunderstorms damaging winds over 100km/h local .80mm Wind WSW38km/h P.O.P.50%
Night -5 wc -19 clouds breaking breezy Wind WSW24km/h P.O.P.0%

December 23, 2008

How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence.
~Benjamin Disraeli


Day -9 wc-17 mostly cloudy with snow Wind SW22km/h P.O.P.8%
Night -11 wc -20 cloudy with snow Wind SW24km/h P.O.P.40%

December 20, 2008

"Your first job is to prepare the soil. The best tool for this is your neighbor's garden tiller. If your neighbor does not own a garden tiller, suggest that he buy one." ~ Dave Barry


Day -15 wc-21 mainly cloudy and cold Wind N11km/h P.O.P.23%
Night -17 wc-25considerable cloud, snow Wind ENE24km/h P.O.P.11%

December 15, 2008

Isn’t it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists. ~ Kelvin Throop III

Day +5 wc-4 cloudy with rain 3.8mm gusty winds 65km/h Wind W38km/h P.O.P.52%
Night 0 wc-13 mostly cloudy Winds W25kmh/ P.O.P.2%

November 27, 2008

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant! ~Edward Abbey

Day -3 mostly cloudy Wind WSW22mk/h P.O.P.52%
Night -5 mostly cloudy Wind SW24km/h P.O.P.49%