Just in case anyone thought I might be sane… I planted Eastern/Virginia spring beauty today. It’s 30 degrees with a windchill factor of 22, but they arrived last Wednesday (I think), and being in a grocery bag inside a box on my desk wasn’t going to do them any good, so I had to plant […]

Tulips, doing their best to get frozen. Peonies, not so far along, but still insanely early.

M did an extra-awesome job yesterday; I got about 1/3 more fat this time, and much less went to the trash pandas. Pink mush. Ew. Greyish-brown mush with lots of fat. Still ew, kind of.

Well, on the window, at least. I bought new privacy film for my bathroom windows; the old stuff was dusty and peeling at the edges, and had been sloppily installed in the first place, and my pink bathroom wants pretty windows. The old stuff did not come off easily. Some of it was brittle and […]

If you’re a goddamned worthless European starling, that is. Just doing a little bird-watching out by the suet feeders. My little birds don’t pay any mind at all when I’m close; they seem to know I’d never hurt them. The starlings, however…that’s why Maw’s got ‘er gun. I also know how I’d look as a […]

Well, for whatever it’s worth, I put my pond heater in place. It’s going down to 18 tonight, and windy, so even though it was nearly dark when I got up, and I had to feed the birds, I dumped the deicer in beside the pump hose and left the pump on. Worst case scenario, […]

When I got home yesterday, I happened to notice the croci…that apparently think it’s spring. Next week, it most emphatically will not be spring, so I’m going to go down to the compost pile and get some of the leaves that B brought over, lest my little sprouts freeze to death in actual winter. I […]

I’ve almost finished setting it up, and I still suck at typing on it, but it’s here! I had to leave the crap screen protector on because I just ordered three today, but even so, I like it. Also still have to figure out how to get my Bluetooth earphones to connect. Anyway, it’s pretty, […]

I’ve been so busy that last few days, trying to accomplish just a few more things before the holiday is over (and we don’t get another one until the end of MAY!) that I haven’t had time to update this. Anyway… Christmas fridge finally arrived on the 29th. Only five days after they promised it. […]

I just heard one! Not that I haven’t before–used to hear one every morning when I walked to work from 544–but they’re not common here. I wonder if my putting out seed and corn for ground-feeders is feeding more birds than I’d realized? Also, the sky is a funny colour, and there’s a round, bright […]