I know it still isn’t sprang, but I’m happy this is the last day of February. Goodbye, shitty month; don’t let the door hit your arse on the way out! Five or six more weeks until the MLBs return, and about the same until I hope to see an oriole again! I may actually get […]

Sprang better get here soon; my larkspur is developing actual leaves and won’t wait for long!

I keep telling them it’s another six or seven weeks before they can go in the ground, but larkspur doesn’t listen well at all! Nothing from anyone else except the bee balm that arrived with some green…and one brave little Dutchman’s breeches. He’s cute.

I was thinking about getting a headphone jack button thingie; you plug it into the jack, and set it to do one of a set of available actions. I thought I’d try the camera to see whether I could reach to use it as a photo shutter, taking pictures one-handed. It was too awkward, but […]

One suet feeder is starling-proof by design, and now I’ve figured out how to keep them from perching atop the tail prop feeder. One more to go…the one on the tree. It’s used a lot by my desirable birds, so I don’t want to just take it down. Anyway I don’t think starlings can perch […]

No pictures and I’m too lazy to get them out of the fridge, but I put more columbine, some echinacea (purple), some digitalis and some butterfly weed in to cold-stratify. My windowsill collection has also grown by 20 Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’ bulbs that I hope won’t rot in barely damp potting soil. The roots I planted […]

Each one holds two suet cakes. One has a tail prop that makes it difficult for any bird that can’t cling to a vertical surface and balance with its tail (i.e. non-woodpecker types), and the other has a cage outside that allows only small birds to enter (e.g. nuthatch, small woodpecker, Carolina wren, chickadee). I […]

Well, it didn’t waste any time. I planted it  on the 9th after work, and on the 15th at 2:30-ish, it looked like this. A few didn’t sprout (at least not yet), but what I initially mistook for mould is actually tiny, furry roots, and miniscule,  pale green leaves-to-be. Hope it does as well outside […]

We had planned to go to the Herb and Garden show in Mt V, but decided it was too cold and crappy. The sun came out later, but it’s very cold and very windy, and the place I want to be is Parview. P hitched up the team and went into town for supplies; we’re […]

I left work a little early today; I’d spent the morning stripping the wax off the bathroom floor, and I just wanted the afternoon off…because. Anyway, I had seeds I wanted to cold-stratify, and when I got here, I had a bunch of roots from the guy in WV. The seeds came from Everwilde, and […]