Coffee

[Country Homesteader]

Good SUNDAY Morning all!
Don't let @baymule scare you off I have hot and ready COFFEE!
I apologize for not getting on here yesterday but FH had to work and I was able to go for the ride which was a long one almost to the NC/VA border once the job was done we had a couple stops to make before we got home which was just a couple hours before we had to go to a friends house for a BBQ but it was plenty of time for me to make frosting and get it on cupcakes I had thrown together on Friday evening.

 

[digitS']

Good Morning. Corn, rice and wheat with a banana in my bowl of cold cereal. Applesauce. Variety! And, such self-pampering .

Full kettle of herb tea on the stove. I was generous with all ingredients since my order of lemon verbena should be here this week and the anise hyssop should hold out through the month, an unopened bag of cranberries are on the shelf. And, I'm geared up to go to the dang soopermarket for more peppermint licorice tea if need be!

Yesterday was a more yard clean-up day. Ran the weedeater thru the periwinkle vines after apologizing to the plants. They had just become too much of a mess with the tree leaves through the seasons. I hope that they come back strong and bring some periwinkle blue to Springtime.

I also pruned the climbing rose over the backyard gate. Another mess. I want it up high not a rambling bramble at knee level and not impeding us walking through the gate!

One more nice day with (nearly) @baymule 's temperatures. I think that this should finally, after 4 1/2 months, be the end of snow in the yard.

Steve

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Yesterday was a more yard clean-up day. Ran the weedeater thru the periwinkle vines after apologizing to the plants. They had just become too much of a mess with the tree leaves through the seasons. I hope that they come back strong and bring some periwinkle blue to Springtime.

I might think so. This year seems to be a good one for early spring flowers. Our front yard did a very good display this year (our house, and a lot of the ones around here, had the gardening trick don't to it in the 50's where you load the front yard with lots of tiny self replicating perennial crocuses, so that they show up when the snow melts). They were extra thick this year (though I suspect that this has less to do with any extra fecundity and more to do with the fact that gardeners didn't show up extra early this year to start mowing the lawn LONG before it needed it).
Might be nice to add a few extra colors in though. Have to see if there is a cheap source for that kind of crocus in yellow, or dark purple (or, better yet, both).

I also pruned the climbing rose over the backyard gate. Another mess. I want it up high not a rambling bramble at knee level and not impeding us walking through the gate!

I actually am currently nursing one of those red and white striped mini roses the supermarkets sell in pots around Valentine's day to see if this time I can keep it alive long enough to get it into the ground in once piece (well, five pieces, as that is how many plants are actually in the pot.) So far, so good (only one flower currently on it, but the plants themselves look healthy enough.)

One more nice day with (nearly) @baymule 's temperatures. I think that this should finally, after 4 1/2 months, be the end of snow in the yard.

Steve

Only another month I guess before I have to start going pansy hunting!

 

[Country Homesteader]

Good MONDAY Morning all! Coffee is hot and ready for y'all to have your go go juice before starting anything.

Only another month I guess before I have to start going pansy hunting!

Last fall I planted PANSIES in planters out by front sidewalk and they came back and are in full bloom.
I so can't wait for this cold snap to end so that way I won't have to worry about flowers getting damaged. Everything is so early this year but today is the FIRST DAY of SPRING so let's all chase the bad weather away.
I surprised FH yesterday by push mowing our front and back yard (0.5 acres). He didn't have any faith that I could do it so I'm very proud of myself but he can't handle it and is still wanting to get a small zero turn rider which in my eyes is an expense we don't need.

 

[digitS']

Good Morning.

There is still about two shovelfuls of snow in the yard. I even went over and kicked it around but most was frozen to the ground. Spring is supposed to arrive at 2:30pm here and it looks from the radar map that it should arrive with a little rain. And so, the snow departs.

I'm up too early but a couple of things about a nice day yesterday contributes to that. One, I'm a little sore from shoveling and screening compost. Two, the house didn't cool down to its customary 60-62 Winter setting and the dang new comforter on the bed is just too, too heavy. It should go back in the closet! Except, DW will have something to say about that.

Looking at Artemisia info and photos this morning. Imaging the fragrance from what is almost for sure is the common mugwort/wormwood that grows along the river after Spring runoff. Thinking how it's so similar to the white sagebrush native Artemisia in fragrance. Aren't we glad we have a nose?

Steve

 

[baymule]

It’s 32F here this morning . Haven’t been running the central heat, so house was 54F when I got up. Got propane heater in, nice and warm now. If the sun comes out, the house will warm up. Afternoon sun hits the back of the house, nice in winter, but awful in the summer.

 

[baymule]

I’m going to be a guest speaker this afternoon at 5 PM Central Time on a radio show in Australia. It will be 10 AM Tuesday morning in Australia.

https://m.facebook.com/100063728057032/

It’s the first out of the country live interview for the station, they are pretty excited about it. Y’all tune in! Ought to be fun listening with Franks Australian accent and my Texas drawl and southern accent! Haha!

 

[seedcorn]

I’m going to be a guest speaker this afternoon at 5 PM Central Time on a radio show in Australia. It will be 10 AM Tuesday morning in Australia.

https://m.facebook.com/100063728057032/

It’s the first out of the country live interview for the station, they are pretty excited about it. Y’all tune in! Ought to be fun listening with Franks Australian accent and my Texas drawl and southern accent! Haha!

So what are you talking about?

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Good MONDAY Morning all! Coffee is hot and ready for y'all to have your go go juice before starting anything.

Last fall I planted PANSIES in planters out by front sidewalk and they came back and are in full bloom.
I so can't wait for this cold snap to end so that way I won't have to worry about flowers getting damaged. Everything is so early this year but today is the FIRST DAY of SPRING so let's all chase the bad weather away.
I surprised FH yesterday by push mowing our front and back yard (0.5 acres). He didn't have any faith that I could do it so I'm very proud of myself but he can't handle it and is still wanting to get a small zero turn rider which in my eyes is an expense we don't need.

Pansies don't actually "come back", they're annuals. What they do do is drop seed that can germinate and make a new batch. This means that, if you just want pansies in general, you can simply wait, but if you want any specific color or pattern, you need to be prepared to do a lot of moving around and refreshing, as they don't always come true to seed (when I re-planted the seed from my "Blackberry Sorbet" Violas only about 1/4 came back in the blackberry sorbet colors (purple on top, black on the bottom) the rest either were uniform purple (about 1/4 again) or reverted all the way back to wild viola (a.k.a. Johnny-Jump-Up) colors.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

We had 3 days of sun and 50+ weather. The girls got sunburned. It is 38 right now and might rain and be close to 50. The snow is mostly gone out of the garden. Morning glories are up in the greenhouse and I might have started them too early. I am drinking coffee and deciding what to do today.

DD and kids are probably coming over. She wanted me to make her a fabric bookmark. She kept changing her mind what color, so I made 3 of them.