We began with 15 unopened tulip flowers and now we are down to two. Every day there has been one or two cleanly snipped off at the top of the stem. Have I mentioned lately how much I dislike rabbits? Since these tulips are in the front of the house, they are not surrounded by …
And So It Begins
Gardening season that is! Old enough to join AARP I was away last week visiting my mom in San Diego and the weather I left in Minnesota turned out to be nicer than the weather in California. Go figure. It being California, however, the trees were green, some were flowering, and and all sorts of …
Farewell Elinor
March 30th was Elinor and Mrs. Dashwood’s hatch day marking eight years. On Friday we had to say goodbye to Elinor. Ever since I mentioned about helping her up the ladder into the coop a couple months ago, she’s been in a very slow decline. We noticed her breathing was a bit labored, indicating she …
So Much
The crocus survived and is flowering! From Sunday through Tuesday last week we ended up getting a foot of snow! We had a break from the snow Monday during which we got an inch of rain. While the snow was not appreciated, the moisture was. There was so much that we went from being in …
Winter Strikes Back
Obligatory snow photo Last Wednesday in this almost nonexistent winter that seemed, a couple weeks ago, to decide on spring and turned warm and sunny enough to encourage Silver Maple to bloom, buds on shrubs to swell, the tulips to pop up, and the rhubarb to begin to poke their prehistoric looking crimpy leaves to …
