Coffee

[digitS']

Back to cold cereal for a second breakfast, except it isn't so cold.

Microwaved chopped apple and raisins at the bottom have heated the Grape Nut flakes. The raisins make up for the absence of grapes in the flakes and the almond milk makes up for the absence of nuts.

Warm, cold cereal , herbal tea ... on to coffee –– the only reality this Sunday morning.

digitS'

 

[Dahlia]

Back to cold cereal for a second breakfast, except it isn't so cold.

Microwaved chopped apple and raisins at the bottom have heated the Grape Nut flakes. The raisins make up for the absence of grapes in the flakes and the almond milk makes up for the absence of nuts.

Warm, cold cereal , herbal tea ... on to coffee –– the only reality this Sunday morning.

digitS'

Sausage and scrambled eggs for breakfast with 2 cups of coffee with cream. Dried persimmons for dessert.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

I volunteered yesterday at an annual seed swap. I actually sat at the Food Bank table, but was able to browse the tables and tables of seeds.

Two companies mail their out of date seeds (packed for '24). A larger company declined this year, for the first time in 6 years since they have been contributing. Others, like me, bring in seeds that we've saved from our own gardens.

I picked up five packets of seeds, and then talked for a bit to a volunteer from the local Arboretum. I gathered a few native perennial seeds from him for the wild areas of my property.

Some folks, again like me, bring their trimmings to the event. I had rooted about 12 pothos, four variegated spider plants, some other plants from a floral arrangement, three Sword ferns, three stalks of a snake plant and four sprouts from aloe. We toss them outside on a tarp. They all get snapped up quickly in the first two hours.

I was able to acquire a stem of red bark dogwood, several stems of ninebark, two bearded iris, a tiger lily tuber and several tubers of red canna.

On Wednesday when I don't work at the food bank, I'll trim and then pot up them for rooting.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

I had my coffee and made a trip to the vet. Blinky is 14 now and he is having trouble. We took him to the emergency vet last Friday and we took him to his regular vet this morning. He needs medications for megacolon that he has been diagnosed with since 2018, but now not eating and trying to find out if kidney disease, the megacolon or his teeth, so have a lot of different medications this week to see how he improves.

DD had the ultrasound and the twins to me look sort of similar, but not identical. They are fraternal twins and to me look sort of like Evelyn more than Izzy or Wes. They are healthy and very pretty and DD is looking so healthy right now.

DD and I are looking at flower seeds and what to start. I am going to start rounding up some supplies and ordering seeds this week. I am going to put the inside greenhouse in DS's old bedroom instead of the kitchen and see if it will work. His room is pretty cool since we only use wood heat, but the lights put out heat. I am going to go with the metal boxes and not wood. It was 13 degrees when I got up this morning. I am sure looking forward to spring and planting and get as much done as I can before the twins come.

 

[Phaedra]

I volunteered yesterday at an annual seed swap. I actually sat at the Food Bank table, but was able to browse the tables and tables of seeds.

Talking about seed swap - if I want to host a small (well, my cafe is tiny) seed swap event, do you and @flowerbug have any suggestion? thank you

 

[flowerbug]

Talking about seed swap - if I want to host a small (well, my cafe is tiny) seed swap event, do you and @flowerbug have any suggestion? thank you

if you can set up a table for seeds to be set out that may be enough to start with. however if you do this each year you may find it gets enough people to come by you'll want to do it in a bigger space. traffic and parking become issues...

 

[ducks4you]

@Gardening with Rabbits for Blinky sent.
Also, please say a prayer for the owner of and the Pitbull mix female that Eva and I met at the Vet's office.
Her name is Charley-girl and her owner is afraid that she has cancer.
Bless you for praying!!

 

[Marie2020]

I had my coffee and made a trip to the vet. Blinky is 14 now and he is having trouble. We took him to the emergency vet last Friday and we took him to his regular vet this morning. He needs medications for megacolon that he has been diagnosed with since 2018, but now not eating and trying to find out if kidney disease, the megacolon or his teeth, so have a lot of different medications this week to see how he improves.

DD had the ultrasound and the twins to me look sort of similar, but not identical. They are fraternal twins and to me look sort of like Evelyn more than Izzy or Wes. They are healthy and very pretty and DD is looking so healthy right now.

DD and I are looking at flower seeds and what to start. I am going to start rounding up some supplies and ordering seeds this week. I am going to put the inside greenhouse in DS's old bedroom instead of the kitchen and see if it will work. His room is pretty cool since we only use wood heat, but the lights put out heat. I am going to go with the metal boxes and not wood. It was 13 degrees when I got up this morning. I am sure looking forward to spring and planting and get as much done as I can before the twins come.

Thinking of and praying for Blinky.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Seed swap ideas.

Bring a can of food to donate for your local food bank.
Bring your seeds that you've saved. Be sure to have them marked.
If necessary, buy some seeds and put them out on a table
Consider holding a couple 15 - 20 min classes
Do a poster collage with your photos of how to regrow store bought plants.
Have your starts on display (celery, mums, etc)
Create or find a QR code that will take the participant to something interesting
I'm going to post some pics of what I brought home. Interesting home made seed packets.
Allow folks to bring in their clippings of what they have at home. See mine below - they were house plants.

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Here are my photos of Sunday's seed swap.