My growth chart now looks like this: Yes, that’s a x 7. Horrible, this early in the game! The spinaches, lettuces and chards that had germinated were eaten by a mouse! That sets us back by only (?) a week, but I must say it was quite upsetting to come into the basement and find …
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Some Quick Notes Before I Dissapear for a Few Days
Friends are coming to visit for a couple of days, and I doubt I will have the time, or the inclination, to interrupt the fun we always have to post here. But before I go, a few notes: ~ Turns out that the bobcat I heard a couple of weeks ago was most likely a …
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First Letters from My Daughter
Amie has taken to writing me letters – she’s been watching My Neighbor Totoro, in which the oldest girl writes letters to her mother. I can’t come anywhere near her when she is writing. “Don’t look!” she says – not aware, perhaps, that I can hear her perfectly as she sounds out what she is …
First Herb Seeds In
Lots of herbs have to be started early. So I started them: Greek Oregano (*) x12 Sweet Marjoram (*) 3 rows Rosemary (*) x13 True Lavender (*) x12 Lemon Balm x12 Lovage x12 Valerian x 12 Mints: Bee Balm 3 rows Mints: Common 3 rows Mints: Pennyroyal 3 rows Luckily most of these (not the …
Robins Arrived Before the Snow
The first of that big snowstorm assailing the East Coast has flurried in, and so did the flocks of birds. I’ve noticed that the regulars – the flocks of snowbirds, sparrows, finches and mourning doves, and the lone cardinals and blue jays – come out to the feeder when it starts snowing. Maybe it is …
First Seedlings of 2010
It took me three hours to wash all the plugs and containers from last year. Or should I say, another three hours? I had washed them at the end of last season, but storing them on the screened-in porch turned out to be not a good idea. So I washed and scrubbed in a bucket …
Start Growing!
I’m ready to start sowing in my basement light setup. I checked it and everything still works. I just received the first batch of seeds from Fedco. We also found a great deal for a 4-flat heat mat with thermostat, so jumped on it – and that has arrived as well. I bought my seedling …
Power Down
Do you think about the future? Do you wonder what it will be like? Or do you live like it’s always going to be the way it has been? ~ I found at least 5 entries like this one, all in drafts, abandoned. As I prepare for the growing season with more resolve and urgency …
Bees
Well, yesterday evening was eventful. I heard a wild cat (or a fisher? – see the comments) in the street. Someone in a drive-by knocked our mailbox right off its perch. I saw the brake lights, heard the crash, the door slam and it speeding off, but it was too dark even to see the …
A Bobcat?
So this happened half an hour ago, at 10 pm. I’m sitting in my living room, working on the laptop. Suddenly there is a racket in the street. A small dog barking very, very loudly? Surely that’s not a dog? I go outside with my flashlight. It’s 10F and I’m wearing a skirt and a …