Fake Spring came to Minnesota last week. Fake spring usually happens a couple times in late winter before real spring arrives. Temperatures soared to 50F / 10C and a few degrees above. Now that might not sound warm to you, but for us, that meant going out on neighborhood foot patrol in sneakers and a …
Tag: seed starting
Seeds and Such
Hi Friends! I wanted to have a huge political rant, but I know many of you are being extremely careful about how and when you take in certain subjects these days, so I put my rants and links under the "Reading" heading at the end of the post and labeled it "politics" so you can …
Why Does My Thumb Hurt?
For the last several days I’ve been wondering why my thumb hurts so much. Not the thumb itself but the squishy bit at the base of my thumb. What did I do? I couldn’t figure it out. It’s gone from hurting just a little to a near constant ache. Then today I was planting more …
Blizzard
Not only a blizzard of busy-ness but an actual snow blizzard too. No post last week because When I came to Sunday afternoon I was pretty much done. We had a blizzard Tuesday night into Wednesday morning that made roads and visibility so bad even the buses stopped running, which meant neither James nor I …
Getting Pruney
A busy weekend! I’ve not sat down for more than 30 minutes all day today. So this will be another short and sweet one. James and I started pruning the apple trees yesterday. I say started because after we removed one huge dead branch our fingers were so cold we couldn’t do more. While we …
