Gardening notes: WTF, Colorado weather?

OK, we had an entire weekend of wet, nasty "wintry mix" - some sleet, some incompetent hail, some freezing rain, & some genuine snow that didn't manage to stick to the roads. In the larger sense, this is great because adding some more insurance to the snowpack both delays the onset of fire season & ensures healthy flows in the rivers all summer. But in the smaller sense - STOP FUCKING WITH MY PANSIES! Sheesh.

I hired a local contractor to aerate the lawn on Saturday (despite the conditions, he showed up). $30 for both the front & back lawns. Now the whole yard looks like it's covered in small-dog poops.

I think my compost pile had just enough warm weather to start cooking at some point this month. It has noticeably decreased in size & no snow/sleet/hail/whatevs accumulated on its lid this weekend (though it was accumulating on similar surfaces, like roofs).

Lots of garden projects for next Saturday.