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In the 12 years I have lived here in East Tennessee, the latest snow or frost that we have had was April 2. \u00a0That was the year we were trying to put in a house for my mom on the lower end of our property, and the snow and mud stopped construction for a few days. \u00a0April Fool!<\/span><\/p>\n 2014 sets a new record (at least in my personal experience) with snow and a frost on Tuesday night, April 15. \u00a0Much of my garden is in, the fruit trees have blossomed, most of Marie\u2019s flowers are up \u2026 this was not a welcomed gag.<\/p>\n It rained Monday night, but the temperatures had been up in the 60s and 70s for the past week. \u00a0So the soil was warm and the rain started out warm. \u00a0The rain continued on Tuesday, but the temperature was falling off, Monday’s low temperature of 52\u00b0 F would be Tuesday’s high, heading for a predicted overnight low of 26\u00b0 F. \u00a0Rain turned to sleet then to snow, but with no accumulation.<\/p>\n Early\u00a0in the evening the precipitation stopped. \u00a0Temps were in the mid 30s now. \u00a0We scrambled around to cover as much of what we could cover to protect it from the coming frost.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the 12 years I have lived here in East Tennessee, the latest snow or frost that we have had was April 2. That was the year we were trying to put in a house for my mom on the lower end of our property, and the snow and mud stopped construction for a few … Continue reading “April Fooling”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[86,88],"class_list":["post-6923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-gardening","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21094,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6923\/revisions\/21094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}