March Country Giveaway

I had to think about the March giveaway.  Just wasn't quite sure what I wanted the giveaway to be... and then it hit me!  Gardening!  Aren't we all thinking about spring and getting our hands good and dirty, smelling the good, green earth on a wet rainy day?

Weds morning prairie sky ~

threatening, and yet cool at the same time!

And so, the March giveaway will be a $25 gift certificate to Territorial Seed Company or Burpee, winner's choice.  I personally like Territorial Seed, based in Oregon, but if you're looking for unlimited choices, then Burpee is the way to go!

Just leave a comment here -- tell me what you think you might like to purchase with your $25 gardening gift certificate -- seeds?  a new garden tool? seaweed fertilizer?

A winner will be drawn using Randomizer.org on Monday, March 19th.  So you've got until Sunday, March 18th at midnight (PST) to enter the giveaway!

Good luck, and I hope y'all are having a good week so far.  Happy Thursday!

What Were We Thinking?!

Last autumn (before)

Post-straight line winds (after)

February 28th evening

Did we think our cheap little plastic greenhouse

would last longer than one season in a state

known for its crazy winds???

I mean, really.  Derr.

There has been a discussion since last Tuesday

about the possibility of building a REAL

greenhouse on this spot.

Someday.

A Winner and A Tornado Watch

A winner is fun... a tornado watch, not so much!

Randomizer.org picked the number 7 and that equates to Labbie1.... email me your address and I'll get your gift card in the mail pronto!!

Thanks to all who entered and good luck in March's Country Giveaway, which will be posted in a few days.

In the meantime, we're ushering in the early spring season with our first tornado watch until 11 pm tonight.

Hubby and I are more prepared this year to watch the sky for signs of turbulent weather.  Last night we attended a National Weather Service storm spotter presentation.  We've been wanting to do this for a few years.  It was an excellent presentation by Chance Hayes, who works out of the Wichita NWS office.  Here's a link to the Wichita Eagle, which published an article a few weeks ago with more information.

We brought home a handout from the presentation with all kinds of great web links.  One of the best ones (my humble opinion) is for an Online Spotter Training Course.  This takes about 2 hours, but both myself and the hubby plan to take this course.  We really enjoyed last night's presentation and agreed that we both learned quite a bit.  Now we want to take our learning to the next level and become trained weather spotters so that we can call the NWS with reliable severe weather information in our area, especially since we live in a rural area.

What about you?  Does severe weather fascinate you - do you head for your front porch with your camera (like I do!) or do you run for the basement?!  I'll be honest... I head for the closet, eventually.  But it's usually at the last minute.

I know.  Not very smart, but I can't help it.  The photographer in me wants to get a few cool shots first!

Weather Update, 9:40 pm CST:  We are safe.  A severe thunderstorm passed through here earlier, but the worst of the storm is now to our east.  I hope that it does not cause too much damage in southeast KS and northeast OK.


(Stay safe, Pioneer Woman... the storm line is close to Pawhuska!)

My Weds morn memory revival - Pioneer Woman and family are in Colorado skiing, so they are safe.  Duh.