So Long For the Season, Heat Miser

I don't recall seeing a notice like this over at my favorite weather site before.

The growing season has ended for locations east of the Interstate 95 corridor to the Chesapeake Bay and tidal Potomac River.

Issuance of freeze watches and warnings... and frost advisories
are discontinued until next Spring for the following counties and
cities in DC Maryland and virgina:

Southern Baltimore... Baltimore City... Anne Arundel... Prince
Georges... District of Columbia... city of Arlington... city of Falls
Church... City of Alexandria... Charles... Calvert... King George... and
Saint Marys.

Those with vegetation still growing that is sensitive to frost
and freeze conditions should monitor the low temperature forecasts
issued by the National Weather Service or other outlets.

Later this week... it appears that much of the region will drop
to near freezing by Thursday morning... November 8th.

Message from the NWS: You're on your own now, pilgrims.

We live to the west of that line, so I expect the cut-off goes double for us.

As it happens, the youngest Llama-ette and I were out yesterday afternoon planting bulbs in the little patch by our front sidewalk. We put in a mixture of tulip and daffodil, my sincere hope being that the scent of the latter will discourage the goddam squirrels from digging up the former. (I had been considering whether to aerate the back yard this fall, but the squirrels beat me to that pretty durn effectively.) This is the bed that has been pretty much taken over by my Dicentra, and it was almost impossible to dig anywhere without slicing through some of its roots. In fact, I did slice a couple of them, but the Dicentra has become such a garden-bully that I don't think it's going to matter very much.