Our winter finches molted their drab feathers to become brilliant yellow spring birds. Carolina chickadee pairs have begun their real estate search for acceptable housing.
Near the end of winter, Ernie, my neighbor up the road, built a shelf for me, attached it to a porch post and placed a decorative birdhouse on the shelf. Chickadees have been seen popping in and out, sitting on the roof, and talking about the little house.
Sourwood trees are dropping their flowers while dogwood blossoms are slowly opening their showy blooms. Last weekend was the "dogwood winter" with temperatures dropping into the 20's. The locals tell us we have one more cold spell, the "blackberry winter." This last snap of cold air will sweeten the blackberries. April has been such a windy month. What ever happened to "March coming in like a lion and out like a lamb?" We've had weeks of March winds with gusts to 16 mph so I've been watering the garden greens daily.
radishes
I think flea beetles are eating the arugula. Time to go to war on the flea beetles.
spinach
garlic
Found this new LLBean blue comforter and set of blue queen-size sheets at my favorite thrift store, Logan's Run Rescue, for only on $10!
When we were children, my mother always had a card table set up with a jigsaw puzzle to be worked. I can't remember working a puzzle since my childhood. But during our panhandle visit with Boni and Bill, Cliff and I found ourselves working with Emma on her puzzle on the kitchen island. We got hooked. Emma sent a 750-piece puzzle home with us and we set it on the kitchen island and worked it while waiting for potatoes to boil, veggies to steam, or our breakfast oatmeal to simmer.
This was a fun happy puzzle with playful cats and pleasant colors. We needed another puzzle to work but couldn't find any in the thrift stores that were appealing so we went to Walmart. Yikes! Puzzles are expensive. Puzzles with 1000 pieces cost around $12.95. I did find another playful cat theme, 750 pieces for $7.95 and we did that one in a week. So back to Logan's Run thrift store to check if anyone donated puzzles since my last visit and found two puzzles, for $.50, that looked like fun. So the third puzzle is on the kitchen island. Sometimes if I wake early, 5-ish or so, and can't go back to sleep, I work the puzzle. Very calming and great for aging people brains!
Near the end of winter, Ernie, my neighbor up the road, built a shelf for me, attached it to a porch post and placed a decorative birdhouse on the shelf. Chickadees have been seen popping in and out, sitting on the roof, and talking about the little house.
Sourwood trees are dropping their flowers while dogwood blossoms are slowly opening their showy blooms. Last weekend was the "dogwood winter" with temperatures dropping into the 20's. The locals tell us we have one more cold spell, the "blackberry winter." This last snap of cold air will sweeten the blackberries. April has been such a windy month. What ever happened to "March coming in like a lion and out like a lamb?" We've had weeks of March winds with gusts to 16 mph so I've been watering the garden greens daily.
When we were children, my mother always had a card table set up with a jigsaw puzzle to be worked. I can't remember working a puzzle since my childhood. But during our panhandle visit with Boni and Bill, Cliff and I found ourselves working with Emma on her puzzle on the kitchen island. We got hooked. Emma sent a 750-piece puzzle home with us and we set it on the kitchen island and worked it while waiting for potatoes to boil, veggies to steam, or our breakfast oatmeal to simmer.
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