Snow, but not

Because ironhand asked: Yes, we did get snow Friday night/Saturday morning. I awoke somewhat after 7 am to find the heavens in the snow equivalent of a slow drizzle, and as a result spent the next few hours hanging around my living room in my night clothes, drinking tea and goofing off. (No, I cannot explain the connection there. Either it makes sense to your or it doesn't.)

It stopped snowing late morning and by late afternoon most of the clouds had cleared off. Around 90% of the snow vanished in the resulting sunshine. For those of you not familiar with Great Plains weather, this is pretty typical of late fall/early winter weather.

The snow and its allied cold did in my tomatoes and nasturtiums, as well as the volunteer morning glories. The kohlrabi that escaped my notice this past spring is continuing on as if nothing happened, as have my dianthus, the sweet alyssum, lemon balm, sunflowers, chives, and golden marjoram. The marjoram is surprise: I had always thought of it as a tender perennial, but clearly it is somewhat tougher than I expected. If it can hold on a few days longer I might lift it and take it inside.

I dug up the three bell pepper plants, took them inside and potted them up. I pruned them all to varying degrees, since their roots had all taken a beating and I was worried that they might not be able to supply water to all of their leaves. At present the one I pruned the hardest is looking the best, for all that it is now a stick with a few tufts of leaves. The other two were still somewhat droopy yesterday; if they don't look better tomorrow I'll give them another round of pruning. At this point it will be weeks before I get any peppers off of them, but at least I'll have them raring to to next spring. Besides, plants make a place more livable and nightshades are prettier than scheffelaras.