Gardening season is in full swing, and every spare minute I have is spent thinking about the garden, doing stuff in the garden, or recovering from doing stuff in the garden. It is a hectic time of year and I do not like the urgency and rush of trying to do everything in between working …
Category: Holidays
Seedy
Single file everyone! Oh friends, the world here is still monochrome, but the weather has been above freezing almost every day, so the snow is melting drip by drip. There is a little more bare ground in the garden than when I took the photo of the chickens last week, but there is still quite …
Invaded Again!
The Invader Rabbit is most wascally! Even after we closed off all the previous entry points, the rabbit got in again. We went rabbit tracking, and followed the tracks and droppings as Rabbit worked their way around the perimeter of the garden. We discovered and blocked the entry point. Then a couple days later, Rabbit …
Winter Holidays
Just popping in to say that Solstice was marvelous! We got 7.5 inches/19 cm of light, fluffy snow, which made shoveling it pretty quick and easy, for which I am glad because the air temperature was around -4F/-20C with a windchill approaching -30F/-34C. Somehow though I managed to work up a sweat. But who cares …
Welcome Winter!
Snow covered witch hazel This last week a big winter storm hovered over Minnesota for days. I am so glad I don’t live up on the north shore where they had a blizzard and as much as three feet of snow! In the Twin Cities we got rain on Tuesday and Wednesday. Then Wednesday night …
