Chilly and windy, but spring is springing! Pretty croci (yes, I know it’s not croci). Honeybee, taking advantage of a sunny day and a pollen-filled bloom. Mini daffy-down-dillies are almost there! This is the old lady’s lone purple hyacinth. It’s always the first to bloom, and it’s almost there. Go, little purple dude, go!
Much to my surprise, given the awful polar vortex two weeks ago, and the cold dampness since, I was waiting for HK to warm up this morning, and happened to wander over to the edge of the patio. Lo and behold, cold and nasty as its been, and notwithstanding Saturday’s freezing rain, I have miniature […]
So, this year I finally decided to break down and cover the pond, which will hopefully keep it from freezing with anything more than a thin layer of ice, and (assuming it works) will mean I don’t have to stress out all winter over a de-icer potentially catching fire, or shorting out and leaving my […]
I dumped shitty Site5 and for $20 more than I’d have paid them for one month, I got three years of hosting from SiteGround. Not unlimited server space, but it’s not like I need that anyway, so it works, and I’m good for three years. Anyway, it took me a while to get everything sorted, […]
It was chilly and windy, so I was in the garage, playing on my phone. I sort of noticed Onje walking by, but didn’t pay much attention. When he went back the other way, heading outdoors, I realized he had a bird in his mouth. I figured it was probably dead already, but made him […]
Not that a spider and some butterflies go together, exactly (or at least I hope they don’t because that would not bode well for the butterflies!), but their names do! This orb weaver started out with a small web up near the gutter of the carport. His (or her…I don’t know) next web was larger, […]
I felt kind of bad because the deer and rabbits ate all of the stuff I’d planted for Black Swallowtail butterflies, but I needn’t have because I have US Marine butterflies. No Golden Alexander, dill, parsley, fennel, or carrot? Fine…we’ll use rue. I’d planted the rue for Giant Swallowtail, which I’ve had only one year, but […]
P had just got home, and thought he might have heard one of the BRs. He asked me, and I said it was just a very agitated squirre. A few seconds later, we discovered the source of the squirrel’s agitation because a magnificent Barred Owl swooped up through the underbrush andl landed on a branch […]
This isn’t the most we’ve had because I shot this when it was chilly and actively raining, but it looks like we got some really good reviews on Yelp this year! I actually added a third feeder to the Man Cave window last night because they’d completely emptied the two that were there in less […]
It rained all of my birthday weekend, but we desperately needed it, so I didn’t mind. I didn’t care for the chilly temperatures, but 7″ of rain, I will take! Apparently, I will also take a third brood of Pipevine Swallowtails, whether I asked for and expected them or not because I’ve got them. I […]